Media representation of environmental issues in Malaysia: Newspapers and environment non-government organisation newsletters
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Media representation of environmental issues in Malaysia : Newspapers and environment non-government organisation newsletters. / Saleh, Mohamad Saifudin Mohamad; Heinrichs, Harald.
in: Pacific Journalism Review, Band 26, Nr. 2, 7, 2020, S. 118-131.Publikationen: Beiträge in Zeitschriften › Zeitschriftenaufsätze
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TY - JOUR
T1 - Media representation of environmental issues in Malaysia
T2 - Pacific Journalism Review
AU - Saleh,Mohamad Saifudin Mohamad
AU - Heinrichs,Harald
PY - 2020
Y1 - 2020
N2 - This research aims to discover the types of environment issues represented in Malaysian newspapers and environmental non-governmental organisations (ENGOs) newsletters, and to examine the factors in the selection of environmental issues by both social actors. Two methods were employed for the purpose of this study. First, a quantitative content analysis were conducted on 2,050 environmental articles on The Star and Utusan Malaysia’s newspapers together with World Wide Fund for Nature’s (WWF) and Malaysia Nature Society’s (MNS) newsletters from the period of 2012 to 2014. Second, a total of 24 interviewees encompassing of 13 interviewees from The Star and Utusan Malaysia, and 11 interviewees from WWF and MNS were chosen for the in-depth interview sessions. The results of this study discovered that the ways of media and ENGOs representing environmental information in newspapers and newsletters are slightly different. The ENGOs have given more attention to environmental effort topics like sustainable living while the media are focused more environmental problems like floods. However, this study also found that the Malaysian media and the ENGOs shared certain similar criteria for selecting environmental issues for their newsletters especially the news values of proximity, timeliness and impact.
AB - This research aims to discover the types of environment issues represented in Malaysian newspapers and environmental non-governmental organisations (ENGOs) newsletters, and to examine the factors in the selection of environmental issues by both social actors. Two methods were employed for the purpose of this study. First, a quantitative content analysis were conducted on 2,050 environmental articles on The Star and Utusan Malaysia’s newspapers together with World Wide Fund for Nature’s (WWF) and Malaysia Nature Society’s (MNS) newsletters from the period of 2012 to 2014. Second, a total of 24 interviewees encompassing of 13 interviewees from The Star and Utusan Malaysia, and 11 interviewees from WWF and MNS were chosen for the in-depth interview sessions. The results of this study discovered that the ways of media and ENGOs representing environmental information in newspapers and newsletters are slightly different. The ENGOs have given more attention to environmental effort topics like sustainable living while the media are focused more environmental problems like floods. However, this study also found that the Malaysian media and the ENGOs shared certain similar criteria for selecting environmental issues for their newsletters especially the news values of proximity, timeliness and impact.
KW - Sustainability Science
KW - ENGOs
KW - environment
KW - environmental journalism
KW - journalism
KW - Malaysia
KW - media
KW - newsletters
KW - newspapers
KW - news values
KW - representation
KW - ENGOs
KW - environment
KW - entvironmental journalism
KW - journalism
KW - malaysia
KW - media
KW - newsletters
KW - newspapers
KW - news values
U2 - 10.24135/pjr.v26i2.475
DO - 10.24135/pjr.v26i2.475
M3 - Journal articles
VL - 26
SP - 118
EP - 131
JO - Pacific Journalism Review
JF - Pacific Journalism Review
SN - 1023-9499
IS - 2
M1 - 7
ER -