When the Environment Fosters the Media

Special Report: Journalistic Practices
Conditions and Effects of the Institutionalization of a Journalistic Specialty
By Jean-Baptiste Comby
English

The environment joined the ranks of a journalistic speciality in the early 2000s. This institutionalization was objectified in the growth of the editorial space allocated to the subject, and resulted in a new division of journalistic work that spawned services devoted to environmental news. This means that journalists enter the speciality to produce additional news on the environment. Compared to those who already (by conviction) followed this news, these 'new arrivals' have a different approach to ecology. They favour subjects of consensus and ones that serve to illustrate. At the same time, the social worlds concerned by the production of environmental news are undergoing changes conducive to the prevalence of deconflictualized views of the environment.

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