Expertise, activism and policy. Mapping the challenges of transnational climate journalism

Expertise, activism and policy. Mapping the challenges of transnational climate journalism

Grant €74,000

University of Helsinki, Professor Risto Kunelius

The project engages with two developing interfaces of climate journalism. First, it investigates the emerging new practices of climate communication develop by new expert actors working at the intersection of politics, media and expertise. Second, it looks at the potentials of the journalism-civic activism relationship through the prism opened by the youth (school strike) movement. Drawing from extensive international materials the project support new innovative practices in climate journalism.