Abstract

Climate change is a high matter of concern for every living being on this planet earth. This research paper explores the perception of Pakistani journalists related to media and climate coverage issues in Pakistan. The results of this paper are based on ten qualitative interviews of the journalists purposively selected from mainstream media in Pakistan covering climate issues. The journalists were of the opinion that lack of resources, old equipment, and poor human skill result in faulty measurements and information which leads to drawbacks in reporting authentic climate change. But fortunately, the actors associated with climate journalism are very well aware of their responsibilities and role.

Highlights

  • Climate change is a high matter of concern for every living being on this planet earth

  • Investigative reporting and feature writing on climate change are the two major things that are missing in all forms of media in Pakistani Climate journalists just only focus on the federal minister of climate change media talk and no personal experience and research conducted by journalists most of the tv channels primarily focus on political issues and news related climate change funded by NGOs

  • Pakistani media organizations are working on climate change sill there is much required to be done on part of the media

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Introduction

Climate change is a high matter of concern for every living being on this planet earth. The Media and Climate Change Observatory team at the University of Colorado Boulder found that In 2017, we saw media attention to climate change and global warming ebb and flow” with June seeing the maximum global media coverage on both subjects. This rise is “largely attributed to news surrounding United States (US) President Donald J. That is why this research work focuses on Pakistani news media including national newspapers and mainstream television channels (terrestrial and satellite both) in the context that how do Pakistani media conceptualize, formulate, and produce news related to climate change.

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