Climate Change and Journalism: Negotiating the Rifts of Time

This edited collection addresses climate change journalism from the perspective of temporality, showcasing how various time scales―from geology, meteorology, politics, journalism, and lived cultures―interact with journalism around the world.

Analyzing the meetings of and schisms between various temporalities as they emerge from reporting on climate change globally, Climate Change and Journalism: Negotiating Rifts of Time asks how climate change as a temporal process gets inscribed within the temporalities of journalism. The overarching question of climate change journalism and its relationship to temporality is considered through the themes of environmental justice and slow violence, editorial interventions, ecological loss, and political and religious contexts, which are in turn explored through a selection of case studies from the US, France, Thailand, Brazil, Australia, Spain, Mexico, Canada, and the UK.

This is an insightful resource for students and scholars in the fields of journalism, media studies, environmental communication, and communications generally.

Henrik Bødker is Associate Professor in the Department of Media and Journalism Studies at the School of Communication and Culture at Aarhus University (Denmark). He is currently working on issues of circulation and temporality in digital journalism. A monograph entitled Journalism, Time and the Digital―Continuity and Disruption (Routledge) is planned for 2021. He has, among other journals, published in Media History, Critical Studies in Media Communication, Journalism, Journalism Studies, and Digital Journalism.

Hanna E. Morris is a Ph.D candidate at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania where she is currently finishing her dissertation entitled "Apocalyptic Authoritarianism in the United States: Power, Media, and Climate Crisis." Hanna’s research and writing have been published in various academic journals and popular media outlets including Environmental Communication, Media Theory, Reading The Pictures, and Earth Island Journal.