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Journalism.co.uk podcastCovering the climate community, with Waqas Ejaz of the Reuters InstitutePolicymakers, scientists and even disruptive protest groups all largely want the same thing: to save the planet. They just go about it in different ways - here is how the media fits in2025-03-1400 min
Reuters Institute for the Study of JournalismHow to make climate journalism more effective and relevantIn this discussion held at the Reuters Institute we discuss how the news media can make climate journalism that lands with their audiences. In this episode of Future of Journalism we are sharing an edited conversation that we held at the institute around how audiences globally consume climate news, what they think of it and some of the challenges that news organisations face in making their climate journalism really land.
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Katherine Dunn, Content Editor, Oxford Climate Journalism Network, Reuters Institute
Ivan Couronne, Global Editor, AFP’s ‘Future of the Planet’
Dr Waqas Ejaz, post-doctoral research fellow, Reuters Institute and lead a...2025-02-1335 minReuters Institute for the Study of JournalismWhat people really want from platformsIn this episode we explore how people around the world use platforms for news and information about politics, the value they see in them, and the concerns that they have. We hear from co-authors of a new piece of research into what people in eight countries – Argentina, Brazil, Germany, Japan, South Korea, Spain, the UK and the USA – think about a range of platforms, including social media, messaging apps, video platforms and search engines, especially regarding how the access news and information about politics.
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Waqas Ejaz is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow with at the Reuters Institute and the lead auth...2024-12-0234 minReuters Institute for the Study of JournalismFrom protests to politics: How people engage with news about climate changeWe explore our latest report on how people access news about climate change, which we are publishing two weeks before COP28 kicks off and in a year when the news has been dominated by so many effects of the climate crisis In this episode, we’ll explore our latest report on how people access news about climate change, which we are publishing two weeks before COP28 kicks off and in a year when the news has been dominated by so many effects of the climate crisis.
Our report offers fresh insights on climate news consumption patterns in France, Germany, Japan, th...2023-11-1032 min
What is it about computational communication science?#aBitOfCCS on off-the-shelf topic modeling with Waqas Ejaz hosted by Valerie HaseLet's dive into a CCS study, together with Waqas Ejaz. In this episode, hosted by Valerie Hase, Waqas tells us about why and how he used topic modeling (LDA) for analyzing news coverage on climate change in a low-income country such as Pakistan. In that, and apart from data access, Waqas and Valerie discuss the sensitive decision of the appropriate number of topics in topic modeling.
Ejaz, W., Ittefaq, M. and Jamil, S. (2023). Politics triumphs: A topic modeling approach for analyzing news media coverage of climate change in Pakistan. JCOM 22(01), A02. https://doi.org/10.22323/2.22010202
#aBitOfCCS offers brief heads-ups from...2023-05-1629 min
The J Word: A Podcast by Journalism PracticeThe J Word 4.4: Covering Climate Change SynergiesThis episode extends conversations about climate change coverage to how journalists balance reporting on climate change’s synergistic effects – the related and consequential results of a changing climate. This is the first of two episodes produced with Juliet Pinto from the Donald P. Bellisario College of Communications at Pennsylvania State University in the U.S. about a double special issue of Journalism Practice with 16 articles from across the globe focusing on the question above – just how do you cover the synergistic effects of climate change? Juliet is also co-editor of the book Climate Change, Media & Culture: Critical Issues...2022-03-1643 min