Media and Global Climate Knowledge - Journalism and the IPCC

This book is a broad and detailed case study of how journalists in more than 20 countries worldwide covered the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Fifth Assessment (AR5) reports on the state of scientific knowledge relevant to climate change. Journalism, it demonstrates, is a key element in the transnational communication infrastructure of climate politics. It examines variations of coverage in different countries and locations all over the world. It looks at how IPCC scientists review the role of media, reflects on how media relate to decision-making structures and cultures, analyzes how key journalists reflect on the challenges of covering climate change, and shows how the message of IPCC was distributed in the global networks of social media.

Risto Kunelius is Professor of Journalism at University of Tampere, Finland.

Elisabeth Eide is Professor of Journalism at University College of Oslo and Akershus, Norway.

Matthew Tegelberg is Assistant Professor in the Department of Social Science at York University, Canada.

Dmitry Yagodin is Academy of Finland Research Fellow at the University of Tampere, Finland.