`Boring but important': the paradox in news coverage of climate change (opens in new tab)

The news media play a crucial role in informing citizens about climate change [Ejaz et al., 2025]. However, research has highlighted challenges in covering environmental issues. In 1983, Sharon Friedman described environmental journalism as a ‘problem child of the media’ because of its complexity and its ‘grounding in scientific and technical information’ [Friedman, 1983, p. 25]. Others have described how journalistic routines, standards, ideology or norms, such as news values, collide with e...