Can Peace Journalism be transposed to Climate Crisis journalism?
Keywords:
climate change, climate crisis, climate journalism, global, journalism paradigms, Indigenous concept of warrior, peace journalism
Abstract
This commentary briefly outlines characteristics of Peace Journalism (PJ), and then summarises ways that PJ could inspire justice and crisis-oriented climate journalism, including ethical moorings, audience orientation, journalism practices, self-reflexivity and scepticism of the practices of ‘objectivity’. While there are also important disjunctures between them, particularly around advocacy, partisanship and conflict escalation, both paradigms have liberal and radical variants. The author concludes with a note on structural media change as a corequisite of either paradigm’s implementation.
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Corner, J. (2011). Theorising media: Power, form and subjectivity. Manchester & New York: Manchester University Press.
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Hanitzsch, T. (2004a). The peace journalism problem: Failure of news people—or failure on analysis? In T. Hanitzsch, M. Loffelholz, & R. Mustamu (Eds.), Agents of peace: Public communication and conflict resolution in an Asian setting (pp. 185-206). Jakarta: Friedrich Ebert Stiftung.
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Herman, E., & Chomsky, N. (2002). Manufacturing consent: The political economy of the media. New York: Pantheon.
James, A. (2012). Assholes: A theory. New York: Doubleday.
Keeble, R. (2010). Peace journalism as political practice: a new, radical look at the theory. In R.L. Keeble, J. Tulloch, & F. Zollmann (Eds.), Peace journalism, war and conflict resolution (pp. 49-67). New York: Peter Lang.
Klein, N. (2014). This changes everything: Capitalism vs the climate. Toronto: Knopf Canada.
Lynch, J. (2008). Debates in peace journalism. Sydney: Sydney University Press.
Lynch, J. (2014). A global standard for reporting conflict. New York: Routledge.
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Prystupa, M. (2014, June 18). Vancouver crowd jubilant as ‘war’ declared on Northern Gateway. The Observer. Retrieved from http://www.vancouverobserver.com/news/grand-chief-jubilant-he-declares-war-northern-gateway?page=0,1
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Published
21-07-2017
How to Cite
Hackett, R. A. (2017). Can Peace Journalism be transposed to Climate Crisis journalism?. Pacific Journalism Review : Te Koakoa, 23(1), 14-24. https://doi.org/10.24135/pjr.v23i1.100
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