Environmental News Coverage in Ecuador: New Resources, Old Media–State Tensions and Practices

Mercedes Vigón; Juliet Pinto; Lilliam Martínez-Bustos

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-70509-5_5

Environmental News Coverage in Ecuador: New Resources, Old Media–State Tensions and Practices

Mercedes Vigón
, Juliet Pinto
, Lilliam Martínez-Bustos

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Abstract

This chapter provides an update of Ecuadorian news coverage of environmental issues. Worsening media–state relations, a harsh legal environment for media criticism of political actors, and a national economy based in large part on neoextractivist activities present serious challenges for in-depth investigative reporting and have reduced journalists’ ability to investigate powerful domestic actors. At the same time, increasing national political attention to the impacts of climate change has opened the door for new opportunities to train and report on environmental issues. We find new openings for climate change reporting in certain contexts and provide discussion of new interfaces of media and state agendas.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	Palgrave Studies in Media and Environmental Communication
Publisher	Palgrave Macmillan
Pages	91-112
Number of pages	22
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-70509-5_5
State	Published - 2018

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Name	Palgrave Studies in Media and Environmental Communication
ISSN (Print)	2634-6451
ISSN (Electronic)	2634-646X

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Palgrave Studies in Media and Environmental Communication. Palgrave Macmillan, 2018. p. 91-112 (Palgrave Studies in Media and Environmental Communication).

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