Coverage of environmental events in US and UK newspapers: frequency, hazard, specificity, and placement

Abstract

This study analyzes how well two major newspapers – one from the US and one from the UK – cover important environmental issues. The article includes a literature review of media and the environment, problems with environmental media, and methods of assessing news quality; the research focus; methodology, with an explanation of the content categories and rationale, which applies a conceptual framework of ‘technological hazard’; results; and a discussion with limitations and possible additional research.

Keywords:

• Content analysis
• Environmental issues
• Hazard assessment
• Newspapers
• Comparing US and UK