Transnational Professionalism? Key Journalists in the IPCC AR5 Coverage

• In Event: International/Transnational Journalism

Abstract

This paper looks, through a qualitative interview project, how key journalists around the world reflect on their work when covering the Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change (IPCC) Assessment Report 5 (AR5)during 2013-2014. We situate these professional reflections in the context how journalist talk about their reporting practices and how their justify and evaluate them as the same time. By analyzing this professional reflective action, we draw some of suggestive contours of an emerging global "interpretive community" of climate journalists and situate these reflection into the debate about "global journalism".

Authors

• Risto Kunelius, U of Tampere

• Hillel Nossek, Kinneret College on the Sea of Galilee