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Title
Climate change journalism : from agony to agonistic debate
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Abstract
Starting from a politicized outlook on climate change, this essay criticizes mainstream journalistic norms for failing to enable an agonistic, democratic debate about how to move forward. Based on a targeted search for examples from the reporting (and reflection thereof) of two Dutch-speaking alternative news sites (DeWereld-Morgen and De Correspondent), we seek to illustrate how their respective (climate) journalists look for truth, generate democratic debate and hold power accountable by combining practices from constructive journalism, slow journalism and advocacy journalism. We find these journalists to focus on patterns, root causes and underlying values, rather than on novelty or exceptional events. Furthermore, an impartial and detached style of reporting is explicitly denounced in favor of an open and reflexive choice of news-making based on advocacy.
Language
English
Source (journal)
Desenvolvimento e meio ambiente / Universidade Federal do Paraná. Curso de Pós-Graduação em Meio Ambiente e Desenvolvimento. - Curitiba, Paraná, Brasil, 2000, currens
Publication
Curitiba, Paraná, Brasil : Editora UFPR , 2017
ISSN
1518-952X
2176-9109
DOI
10.5380/DMA.V40I0.49257
Volume/pages
40 (2017) , p. 125-140
ISI
000411068500007
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