James Painter is a research associate at the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, a senior teaching associate at the School of Geography and the Environment, and an external collaborator on the LEAP project at the Oxford Martin School, all at Oxford University. His main research interests and publications center on the portrayals of climate change in legacy, digital-born, and social media around the world, and environmental communication in general. He worked for several years at the BBC in different capacities.
These are heady times for anyone scrutinizing climate change coverage. Take the volume of coverage, for example, which seems to be on a sharp upward trend this year. More than 300 media outlets were reported to … Read more
