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, Vol. 26, No. 2, 2020, p. 118-131.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Transfer › peer-review
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T1 - Media representation of environmental issues in Malaysia
T2 - Newspapers and environment non-government organisation newsletters
AU - Saleh, Mohamad Saifudin Mohamad
AU - Heinrichs, Harald
PY - 2020
Y1 - 2020
N2 - This research investigates the types of environmental issues represented in Malaysian newspapers and Environmental Non-Government Organisation (ENGO) newsletters and examines the factors in the selection of stories by both social actors. A quantitative content analysis was conducted on 2050 environmental articles in The Star and Utusan Malaysia newspa-pers, together with the World Wide Fund for Nature’s (WWF) and Malaysian Nature Society’s (MNS) newsletters from 2012-2014. A total of 13 people from The Star and Utusan Malaysia, and 11 from the WWF and MNS were chosen for in-depth interview sessions. The study showed that the methods of choosing environmental information for newspapers and newsletters were slightly different. The ENGOs gave more attention to environmental effort topics like sustainable living while the media focused on more environmental problems like floods. The study also found that the Malaysian media and ENGOs shared some criteria for selecting environmental issues, especially proximity, timeliness and impact.
AB - This research investigates the types of environmental issues represented in Malaysian newspapers and Environmental Non-Government Organisation (ENGO) newsletters and examines the factors in the selection of stories by both social actors. A quantitative content analysis was conducted on 2050 environmental articles in The Star and Utusan Malaysia newspa-pers, together with the World Wide Fund for Nature’s (WWF) and Malaysian Nature Society’s (MNS) newsletters from 2012-2014. A total of 13 people from The Star and Utusan Malaysia, and 11 from the WWF and MNS were chosen for in-depth interview sessions. The study showed that the methods of choosing environmental information for newspapers and newsletters were slightly different. The ENGOs gave more attention to environmental effort topics like sustainable living while the media focused on more environmental problems like floods. The study also found that the Malaysian media and ENGOs shared some criteria for selecting environmental issues, especially 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
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85097679131&partnerID=8YFLogxK
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
ER -