Based on a mail survey of journalists and experts we analyzed the science-journalism interface in the
German discourse on global climate change. The purpose was to better understand how scientific
knowledge is integrated into public discourses and to explore what happens to the meaning of scientific
knowledge when it enters the realm of the media. We found a strong co-orientation of experts and
journalists. Furthermore, we identified some characteristics of “meaning production” in the journalistic
processing of expertise. The survey is part of our project “Climate Change in the Public Sphere” and was
funded within the German Climate Research Program.