Abstract
Socio-environmental conflicts have increased considerably in recent years in Colombia: displacement, protests over water rights and against the mining industry, and deforestation, among others, are issues that are part of a dangerous journalistic reality in the second most biodiverse country in the world. This chapter explores the journalistic coverage of international environmental events in the Colombian media. Two environmental magazines, Catorce 6 and Semana Sostenible, were analyzed to determine the themes, frames, and actors portrayed in the coverage of the 2015 United Nations Sustainable Development Summit held in New York City. Results show that the 17 Sustainable Development Goals agreed at the conference in New York went almost unnoticed in these two Colombian journals, which specialize in the environment. Instead, the coverage focused mostly on issues related to biodiversity.
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Notes
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This is according to the Author of this chapter, who was a journalist at the INDERENA Press Office during the period 1987–1990. She continually had to deal with the problems of journalists trying to understand environmental issues as well as with media reporting requirements.
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FARC (Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia) is the country’s oldest guerrilla group, which since 2017 has taken steps to adopt democracy, and to abandon the use of weapons and terrorist acts.
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Torres-Kremers, M.A. (2018). Environmental Journalism in Colombia: An Analysis of Two Specialized Environmental Magazines. In: Takahashi, B., Pinto, J., Chavez, M., Vigón, M. (eds) News Media Coverage of Environmental Challenges in Latin America and the Caribbean. Palgrave Studies in Media and Environmental Communication. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-70509-5_6
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