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This book showcases various ways in which digital archives allow for new approaches to journalism history.The chapters in this book were selected based on three overall objectives: 1) research that highlights specific concerns within journalism history through digital archives; 2) discussions of digital methodologies, as well as specific applications, that are accessible for journalism scholars with no prior experiences with such approaches; and 3) that journalism history and digital archives are connected in other ways than through specific methods, i.e. that the connection raises larger questions of historiography and power. The contributions address cases and developments in Asia, South and North America and Europe; and range from long-range, big-data, machine-leaning and topic modelling studies of journalistic characteristics and meta-journalistic discourses to critiques of archival practices and access in relation to gender, social movements and poverty

This article combines two neglected elements within the history of online news: public service news sites and weather reporting, and it does so by utilising web archives, which – surprisingly – do not figure very prominently in journalism history. The two elements have – in isolation and in combination – at least in Denmark, become increasingly important as the online news sections of the two public service institutions Denmark's Radio (DR) and TV2 consistently are among the most visited news sites and since reporting on the weather has gained in prominence and more recently, at least on DR TV, has become increasingly educational in its linking to issues of climate change. This article focusses on online news and conducts a historical analysis of the weather reporting on DR.dk from 2005 to 2022. The analysis seeks to balance the coding of journalistic texts with considerations of the online form of journalism, which here broadly means reading the webpage as a text. A key focus in the analysis is how meteorological data have been woven into cultural and social narratives, some of which are linked to climate change.

Foreword: Timescapes of climate change : a challenge for the media / Barbara Adam -- Introduction: Climate change, journalism, and time-an introduction / Henrik Bødker and Hanna E. Morris -- Lead chapter : journalism, indigenous knowing, and climate futures (and pasts) / Candis Callison -- Advocating for journalistic urgency to include climate emergency : the case of three French media collectives / Chloë Salles -- Climate change news in Spanish-language social media videos : format, content, and temporality / Leonor Solís Rojas -- Generational anxieties in United States climate journalism / Hanna E. Morris -- Reproducing government politics of climate change in Thai news media / Duangkaew Dhiensawadkij -- Climate change and the great barrier reef : environmental protest, climate science, and new/s media / Kerrie Foxwell-Norton and Claire Konkes -- Grieving Okjökull : Discourses of the Ok Glacier funeral / Catherine J. Bruns -- Negotiating conflicting temporalities in Canadian Arctic travel journalism / Matthew Tegelberg -- 'The Amazon is ours' : narrative disputes and dissonant temporalities around deforestation in the Bolsonaro government / Suzana Serrão Magalhães, Thaiane Oliveira, Juliana Gagliardi and Hully Falcão -- Spiritual temporalities : discourses of faith and climate change in Canadian petro politics / Darren Fleet -- Journalism as eschatology : Kairos and reporting a materially changing world / Dominic Hinde -- Afterword : finding the stories in the big climate storm / Mark Schapiro.

This edited collection addresses climate change journalism from the perspective of temporality, showcasing how various time scales—from geology, meteorology, politics, journalism, and lived cultures—interact with journalism around the world.Analyzing the meetings of and schisms between various temporalities as they emerge from reporting on climate change globally, Climate Change and Journalism: Negotiating Rifts of Time asks how climate change as a temporal process gets inscribed within the temporalities of journalism. The overarching question of climate change journalism and its relationship to temporality is considered through the themes of environmental justice and slow violence, editorial interventions, ecological loss, and political and religious contexts, which are in turn explored through a selection of case studies from the US, France, Thailand, Brazil, Australia, Spain, Mexico, Canada, and the UK.This is an insightful resource for students and scholars in the fields of journalism, media studies, environmental communication, and communications generally.

This monograph addresses the question of how journalistic knowledge work, and in particular inferential reasoning, as a process of uncertainty reduction is manifested in news texts. We argue this takes place both in and in-between news media within a community of practice. The main premise is that journalistic texts reveal communal processes of knowledge creation and it is within these texts that we see the contours of what we term an "inferential community." The backdrop to this, is that the digital (news) landscape, political developments, and global issues produce an environment rife with uncertainty. We focus on three contemporary cases around the current U.S. presidency. We are, however, not arguing that the processes we study are altogether new; journalists have always, alone or together, grappled with uncertainty. Rather, we present here a conceptualization based on the premise that current circumstances offer a window into the more fundamental processes of journalistic knowledge work based on inference.

Recent developments in the relations between politicians and journalists in the US have (among other things) created a situation where journalists often have to deal with information that is very difficult, even impossible, to verify, yet has potential societal significance that cannot be ignored. This has, we argue, affected how journalists and journalistic outlets relate to each other within what we tentatively term an inferential community. To argue this, we analyze journalistic demonstrations of authority in attempts to establish and connect 'facts' related to uncertain claims in two cases of the coverage of the nascent Trump administration. This is, however, not a fully elaborated case study through which we can conclude something broader about contemporary journalism. The paper should rather be seen as a preliminary empirical probe allowing us to focus on a specific issue while proposing a tentative conceptual and analytical frame through which this may be studied in a more sustained and detailed way.