Journalism and the environment in times of risk: reflections on coverage and its professionals

The risk society imposes a series of perceptions and events that alter and impact ways of life around the world. In environmental terms, we have also experienced the peak of capitalocene, in which the global climate crisis has transformed extreme events into increasingly frequent disasters, with geopolitical, socioeconomic, and humanitarian impacts distributed in a profoundly unequal way. Given this scenario, this Coordinated Session proposes to reflect on the role of journalism in covering environmental risks and disasters, from the perspective of climate justice. Thus, the need to encourage research on the intersection between environmental degradation and structural inequalities of race, class, gender, and territory is assumed, thus recognizing that historically vulnerable populations are the ones that contribute the least to global warming, but the ones that suffer the most from its acute consequences.  

In line with the central theme of the 24th SBPJor Meeting, the table seeks to tension professional practices and the production of journalistic knowledge in an information ecosystem pressured by flows of disinformation and deliberate environmental denialism