Chapter 3

Question 1

News and the environment

• a boom in ?
• 1989?
• what was formed in 1990

Answer 1

• environmental coverage in the 60s… then comes and goes
• exxon valdez
• society of environmental journalists

Question 2

tindall report ? 
-1988 ?
-peak in 2000s was because of ? 
increase in 2006/07 because of ?
-peak in 2010/11

Answer 2

• shows increase in environmental journalism over the years
• oil spill peak
• 9/11
• global warming: An Inconvenient Truth Al Gore
• gulf spill and COP 15 (conference UN had in Copenhagen making plans to help environment)

Question 3

Some key ideas related to journalism 
-dramatic ?
-leading to elimination of ?
-?
News hole: 
-continually 
-a few longer form options do exist

Answer 3

downsizing of news org.

• environmental beats/ fewer reporters overall
• NYT
• amount of space available to a given story
• continually shrinking
• John Oliver

Question 4

expansion of? and some ?

-many environmental journalists do not have an ?

Answer 4

online environmental news (gist.org) papers coverage (the guardian)
-environmental science background and other issues easier to report on

Question 5

even when environmental issues are covered however they do not always?

Answer 5

cover full scope of the issue or even the five w’s

Question 6

newsworthiness
ability of a story to ?
criteria

Answer 6

attract readers and viewers 
-prominence (related to popular figure)
-timeliness 
proximity (how close it is to you) 
-impact (who? how?) -the scale 
-magnitude
-conflict 
-oddity 
-emotional impact

Question 7

event-driven coverage

• modern day journalism is fueled by?
• however many environmental stories are not large dramatic events by instead are ?

Answer 7

• EVENTS

- slowly changing issues

Question 8

charismatic megafauna

image event

Answer 8

-animals that people really like
-manufactured event to bring awareness to a certain topic
PEETA
Greenpeace