News Media Coverage of Environmental Challenges in Latin America and the Caribbean: Mediating Demand, Degradation and Development
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2018), xiii, 195 pp.
Contains figures, tables, index
Series: Palgrave Studies in Media and Environmental Communication
ISBN 978-3-319-70509-5
"This edited collection provides a unique survey of the ways in which news media organizations across Latin America and the Caribbean cover global, regional and local environmental issues and challenges. There is growing recognition within academia, governments, industries, NGOs and civil society about the importance of strategic communication and the news media in informing current societal and policy discussions about environmental issues. With this in mind, this volume explores the content of reporting as well as the structural and individual contests faced by media organizations and journalists, with a focus on the very unique political, social, cultural and environmental conditions that affect the countries individually. The book provides a survey of the most relevant and current environmental issues that have attracted public attention across the region and within countries in Latin America and the Caribbean in the first part of the 21st century." (Publisher description)
1 Challenges in the Reporting of Environmental Issues in Latin America and the Caribbean / Bruno Takahashi, Juliet Pinto, Mercedes Vigón, and Manuel Chavez, 1
PART I. NORTH AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN
2 The News Media and Environmental Challenges in Mexico: The Structural Deficits in the Coverage and Reporting by the Press / Manuel Chavez, Mireya Marquez, Denisse J. Flores, and Manuel A. Guerrero, 19
3 Comparing Cuban and South Florida Spanish-Language Media Coverage of Sea-Level Rise / Juliet Pinto and Mercedes Vigón, 47
PART II. THE ANDES AND THE AMAZON REGIONS
4 Environmental Journalism in Brazil: History, Characteristics, and Framing of Disasters / Rachel R. Mourão and Heloisa Aruth Sturm, 67
5 Environmental News Coverage in Ecuador: New Resources, Old Media-State Tensions and Practices / Mercedes Vigón, Juliet Pinto, and Lilliam Martínez-Bustos, 91
6 Environmental Journalism in Colombia: An Analysis of Two Specialized Environmental Magazines / María Angela Torres-Kremers, 113
7 The Challenges for Environmental Reporting in Peru: Coverage of Small-Scale Mining in Peruvian Newspapers / Hildegard Willer and Bruno Takahashi, 131
PART III. SOUTHERN SOUTH AMERICA
8 Environmental Journalism in Argentina / María Teresa Mercado-Sáez and Fermín Koop, 159
9 The Future of Environmental Communication and Journalism in Latin America and the Caribbean / Juliet Pinto, Mercedes Vigón, Manuel Chavez, and Bruno Takahashi, 177
PART I. NORTH AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN
2 The News Media and Environmental Challenges in Mexico: The Structural Deficits in the Coverage and Reporting by the Press / Manuel Chavez, Mireya Marquez, Denisse J. Flores, and Manuel A. Guerrero, 19
3 Comparing Cuban and South Florida Spanish-Language Media Coverage of Sea-Level Rise / Juliet Pinto and Mercedes Vigón, 47
PART II. THE ANDES AND THE AMAZON REGIONS
4 Environmental Journalism in Brazil: History, Characteristics, and Framing of Disasters / Rachel R. Mourão and Heloisa Aruth Sturm, 67
5 Environmental News Coverage in Ecuador: New Resources, Old Media-State Tensions and Practices / Mercedes Vigón, Juliet Pinto, and Lilliam Martínez-Bustos, 91
6 Environmental Journalism in Colombia: An Analysis of Two Specialized Environmental Magazines / María Angela Torres-Kremers, 113
7 The Challenges for Environmental Reporting in Peru: Coverage of Small-Scale Mining in Peruvian Newspapers / Hildegard Willer and Bruno Takahashi, 131
PART III. SOUTHERN SOUTH AMERICA
8 Environmental Journalism in Argentina / María Teresa Mercado-Sáez and Fermín Koop, 159
9 The Future of Environmental Communication and Journalism in Latin America and the Caribbean / Juliet Pinto, Mercedes Vigón, Manuel Chavez, and Bruno Takahashi, 177
