Sustainable Journalism

This volume examines the intersection between journalism and sustainability in often-overlooked regions like Africa, Latin America and the Asia Pacific. It explores the economic, educational, and ecological dimensions of sustainable journalism and highlights its importance and affectability.

The chapters in the book address critical questions such as how can news organizations in the Global South build viable and resilient business models amid disinformation and platform dependency? How does legacy media coverage shape public perceptions and an understanding of environmental crises, such as the Amazon fires? What role do advocacy journalism and powerful institutional sources play in shaping narratives on the Sustainable Development Goals? The book highlights diverse approaches, from embedding sustainability in journalism education and training to empowering communities through platforms like EcoNai+ and Ushahidi. They also explore publishers’ shifts to reader-centric strategies and the global inequalities in media coverage of climate justice.

Challenging Global North-centric perspectives, this book offers comparative insights into how newsrooms across varied contexts are innovating to survive and thrive, making it essential reading for scholars and practitioners alike. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue in Journalism Practice.