RT Journal Article
T1 Discursive strategies for climate change reporting: a case study of The Mercury News
A1 Parratt Fernández, Sonia
A1 Chaparro Domínguez, María De Los Ángeles
A1 Gilbert, Gregory
AB This paper examines how journalists use discursive strategies when covering the complex issue of climate change in The Mercury News, a large regional U.S.A. newspaper in California, a state deeply impacted by this problem. Quantitative content analysis of published texts and semi-structured interviews of journalists uncovered common use of formative discursive elements and the principles of constructive journalism, consistent with the journalists’ expressed priorities to help educate readers and make climate change interesting, relevant, and easily readable. The demands for speedy reporting in the digital environment and cuts to newsroom staff affect the use of discursive strategies for climate change coverage and limits opportunities for journalists to specialize. Journalists noted the challenge of conveying topics that are abstract, technical, and embedded with uncertainty to readers who demand definitive and instantaneous information. Such challenges are accentuated by poor connections between academic experts on climate change and the public and the press.
PB Taylor & Francis
SN 1752-4032
YR 2022
FD 2022
LK https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/88650
UL https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/88650
LA eng
NO Sonia Parratt-Fernández, María-Ángeles Chaparro-Domínguez & Gregory S. Gilbert (2022) Discursive Strategies for Climate Change Reporting: A Case Study of The Mercury News, Environmental Communication, 16:4, 505-519, DOI: 10.1080/17524032.2022.2048043
NO Estudio financiado gracias al proyecto de investigación Cambio climático y participación social: la contribución de los medios de comunicación y sus redes sociales a la implicación ciudadana, de la convocatoria 2020 de Proyectos de Investigación Santander-Universidad Complutense de Madrid (ref. PR108/20-21).
NO Universidad Complutense de Madrid 
DS Docta Complutense
RD 10 abr 2025