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Abstract

• October media coverage of climate change or global warming in newspapers around the globe dropped precipitously, down 22% from September 2023. Coverage in October 2023 also dipped a worrying 18% from October 2022 levels. International wire services were consistent with the trend, decreasing 15% while radio coverage too went down 13% from September 2023. Compared with September 2023, coverage was considerably down as well in all regions: Latin America (-7%), Oceania (-14%), Asia (-20%), North America (-24%), the European Union (EU) (-25%), the Middle East (-26%), and in Africa (-26%). Figure 1 shows trends in newspaper media coverage at the global scale – organized into seven geographical regions around the world – from January 2004 through October 2023.

Creator

• Katzung, Jennifer
• Boykoff, Max
• Nacu-Schmidt, Ami
• Pearman, Olivia
• Fernández-Reyes, Rogelio

Date Issued

• 2023-11

Academic Affiliation

• Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences

Journal Title

• Media and Climate Change Observatory

Journal Issue/Number

• 82

Last Modified

• 2023-11-25

Resource Type

• Article

Rights Statement

• In Copyright

Language

• English [eng]

License

• Creative Commons BY Attribution 4.0 International

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• Media and Climate Change Observatory Monthly Summaries

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