Environmental journalism

characteristics and interfaces in a developing field

Authors

  • Juliana Sampaio Pedroso de Holanda University of Warwick. Coventry, United Kingdom , University of Warwick. Coventry, Reino Unido , University of Warwick. Coventry, Reino Unido https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0699-8070 (unauthenticated)
  • Pietari Kääpä University of Warwick. Coventry, United Kingdom , University of Warwick. Coventry, Reino Unido , University of Warwick. Coventry, Reino Unido https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1616-2058 (unauthenticated)
  • Luciana Miranda Costa Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte. Natal – RN, Brazil. Universidade Federal do Pará. Belém – PA, Brazil , Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte. Natal – RN, Brasil. Universidade Federal do Pará. Belém – PA, Brasil , Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte. Natal – RN, Brasil. Universidade Federal do Pará. Belém – PA, Brasil https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3843-4499 (unauthenticated)

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1590/1809-58442022109pt

Keywords:

Communication, Environment, Environmental journalism, Media, Environmental journalist

Abstract

This article presents a compilation of scholarly perspectives on environmental journalism, especially between 2010 and 2020. We begin from the standpoint and experience of non-Brazilian countries to notice changes that this field of knowledge has been going through in the international context. The goal is not only to reflect about the challenges faced by professionals working in this area, but also the interfaces between environmental journalism and other fields, such as economy and politics, and its characteristics in the current context. To guide our approach, studies by Pezzullo and Cox (2018), Hansen (2019), Takahashi and Meisner (2012), Druschke and McGreavy (2016), Boykoff (2011), Dotson et al. (2012), Willer and Takahashi (2018), Christians et al. (2009), and Williams (2017), among others, helped us construct this reflection.

Author Biographies

  • Juliana Sampaio Pedroso de Holanda, University of Warwick. Coventry, United Kingdom, University of Warwick. Coventry, Reino Unido, University of Warwick. Coventry, Reino Unido

    Associate Tutor and Early Career Fellow at the University of Warwick, United Kingdom. Doctoral student in Media and Communication at the University of Warwick, in cotutelle with the Postgraduate Program in Media Studies at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte (PPGEM-UFRN), Brazil. Member of the Global Green Media Network and of the Preserv-Ação Research Group: Communication, Science, and the Environment.

  • Pietari Kääpä, University of Warwick. Coventry, United Kingdom, University of Warwick. Coventry, Reino Unido, University of Warwick. Coventry, Reino Unido

    Professor of Media and Communications at the University of Warwick. He works in the field of environmental media studies with a specific focus on media management and industry studies. His monograph Environmental Management of the Media: Industry, Policy, Practice (Routledge 2018) explores the ecological footprint of media production and the policies and strategies developed in the media sector to curtail these impacts. In addition, he is the author of several books on ecocinema, including Transnational Ecocinemas: Film Culture in the Age of Environmental Depravation (with Tommy Gustafsson, Intellect, 2013). He is PI (with Hunter Vaughan, University of Cambridge) of the AHRC Global Green Media Network (www.globalgreenmedianetwork. com).

  • Luciana Miranda Costa, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte. Natal – RN, Brazil. Universidade Federal do Pará. Belém – PA, Brazil, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte. Natal – RN, Brasil. Universidade Federal do Pará. Belém – PA, Brasil, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte. Natal – RN, Brasil. Universidade Federal do Pará. Belém – PA, Brasil

    Professor from the Department of Social Communication at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte, at the Postgraduate Program in Media Studies (PPGEM-UFRN) and at the Postgraduate Program Communication, Culture, and the Amazon at the Federal University of Pará (PPGCOM-UFPA). She coordinates the Preserv-Ação Research Group: Communication, Science, and the Environment at UFPA/ UFRN.

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Published

2022-07-08

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Vol. 45 (2022)

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Environmental journalism: characteristics and interfaces in a developing field. Intercom - Brazilian Journal of Communication Sciences, São Paulo, v. 45, p. e2022109, 2022. DOI: 10.1590/1809-58442022109pt. Disponível em: https://revistas.intercom.org.br/index.php/revistaintercom/article/view/3858. Acesso em: 16 jul. 2026.