Open AccessCan Peace Journalism be transposed to Climate Crisis journalism?
Author(s) -
Robert A. Hackett
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
pacific journalism review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.308
H-Index - 13
eISSN - 2324-2035
pISSN - 1023-9499
DOI - 10.24135/pjr.v23i1.100
Subject(s) - journalism , skepticism , objectivity (philosophy) , reflexivity , political science , sociology , citizen journalism , technical journalism , media studies , public relations , law , social science , epistemology , philosophy
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.