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Between consensus and denial: Climate journalists as interpretive community

Brüggemann, Michael; Engesser, Sven (2014). Between consensus and denial: Climate journalists as interpretive community. Science Communication, 36(4):399-427.

Abstract

This study focuses on climate journalists as key mediators between science and the public sphere. It surveys journalists from five countries and five types of leading news outlets. Despite their different contexts, journalists form an interpretive community sharing the scientific consensus on anthropogenic climate change and agreeing on how to handle climate change skeptics. This consensus is particularly strong among a core of prolific writers while climate change skepticism persists among a periphery of occasional writers. The journalists’ attitudes toward climate change are connected to their usage of sources, indicating that interpretive communities include journalists and scientists.

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Item Type:Journal Article, refereed, original work
Communities & Collections:06 Faculty of Arts > Department of Communication and Media Research
Dewey Decimal Classification:070 News media, journalism & publishing
Scopus Subject Areas:Social Sciences & Humanities > Sociology and Political Science
Language:English
Date:2014
Deposited On:22 Jan 2015 10:15
Last Modified:11 Jun 2025 01:42
Publisher:Sage Publications Ltd.
ISSN:1075-5470
OA Status:Closed
Publisher DOI:https://doi.org/10.1177/1075547014533662
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