TY - JOUR
T1 - From air pollution to airing pollution news
T2 - multi-layer analysis of the representation of environmental news in Iranian newspapers
AU - Amiraslani, Farshad
AU - Caiserman, Arnaud
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2018, © 2018 Journal of International Communication.
Copyright:
Copyright 2018 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2018/7/3
Y1 - 2018/7/3
N2 - As the first-ever report in Iran, this paper explores the styles, tones, subjects, and patterns of the coverage of environmental news published in two Iranian newspapers. Involving certain initiatives and advantages in analysing newspapers, our research used the Structural Query Language (SQL) database management system to retrieve and manage data. A series of articles that covered environmental issues were collected and, based on 15 criteria, a database including 440 records and 6600 entries was formed. The analysis showed that titles and headlines of environmental issue articles were consistent with the contents and with the aims of news or events. However, environmental news was relegated to a small number of columns or spaces. The lowest number of news articles was related to education (9%) whereas the highest number was related to public awareness (56%). Regarding authorship, researchers had the lowest share at 10%, whereas officials and columnists contributed equally (45%) in writing environmental news. The highest (46%) and lowest (6%) proportions of environmental news were related to local and provincial news, respectively. We also revealed that Iranian environmental news is narrative and conservative with high reliance on non-scientific documents, interviews, and commentaries.
AB - As the first-ever report in Iran, this paper explores the styles, tones, subjects, and patterns of the coverage of environmental news published in two Iranian newspapers. Involving certain initiatives and advantages in analysing newspapers, our research used the Structural Query Language (SQL) database management system to retrieve and manage data. A series of articles that covered environmental issues were collected and, based on 15 criteria, a database including 440 records and 6600 entries was formed. The analysis showed that titles and headlines of environmental issue articles were consistent with the contents and with the aims of news or events. However, environmental news was relegated to a small number of columns or spaces. The lowest number of news articles was related to education (9%) whereas the highest number was related to public awareness (56%). Regarding authorship, researchers had the lowest share at 10%, whereas officials and columnists contributed equally (45%) in writing environmental news. The highest (46%) and lowest (6%) proportions of environmental news were related to local and provincial news, respectively. We also revealed that Iranian environmental news is narrative and conservative with high reliance on non-scientific documents, interviews, and commentaries.
KW - database
KW - environmental issues
KW - Iran
KW - Newspapers
KW - SQL
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U2 - 10.1080/13216597.2018.1474126
DO - 10.1080/13216597.2018.1474126
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85050671861
VL - 24
SP - 262
EP - 282
JO - Journal of International Communication
JF - Journal of International Communication
SN - 1321-6597
IS - 2
ER -