Reporting the Environment: A Practical Manual for Journalists
Key Guides
Paris; Vienna: UNESCO; OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media (2026), 88 pp.
"This manual offers journalists practical tools to translate complex scientific findings and policies into accessible, rights-based reporting that informs and engages audiences. Furthermore, it seeks to address some of the key challenges to environmental reporting, including safety concerns, dealing with news avoidance, countering disinformation, and using AI in the newsroom." (Foreword, page 7)
"In each chapter, you will find: key takeaways for journalists at the end of each chapter; info boxes with case studies, reporting experiences, and practical insights; practical guides with step-by-step reporting methods; tips with quick advice from reporting practice; checklists with essential verification and review points." (Page 10)
1 Introduction: What Is Environmental Journalism? 11
2 The Environment as the Object of Environmental Journalism, 17
3 Actors and Sources in Environmental Reporting, 27
4 Environmental Policy and Regulation, 35
5 Journalistic Reporting, 42
Investigative environmental journalism -- Data journalism for environmental reporting -- AI in environmental journalism: Tools, threats, and safeguards -- Local environmental journalism -- Reporting techniques and storytelling in environmental journalism -- Covering gender aspects of climate and environment -- Audience engagement -- Information integrity and disinformation: History, tactics, and workflows
6 Solutions Journalism in the Environmental Sector, 61
7 Safety of Environmental Journalists, 66
8 Organizing Environmental Journalism, 73
9 Journalism Ethics in Environmental Reporting, 80
2 The Environment as the Object of Environmental Journalism, 17
3 Actors and Sources in Environmental Reporting, 27
4 Environmental Policy and Regulation, 35
5 Journalistic Reporting, 42
Investigative environmental journalism -- Data journalism for environmental reporting -- AI in environmental journalism: Tools, threats, and safeguards -- Local environmental journalism -- Reporting techniques and storytelling in environmental journalism -- Covering gender aspects of climate and environment -- Audience engagement -- Information integrity and disinformation: History, tactics, and workflows
6 Solutions Journalism in the Environmental Sector, 61
7 Safety of Environmental Journalists, 66
8 Organizing Environmental Journalism, 73
9 Journalism Ethics in Environmental Reporting, 80
