A new scholarly analysis of 30 years of news reporting in Australia has found that journalists have overwhelmingly failed to report on climate change in a way that benefits all of society.
Our multidisciplinary team, gathered by RMIT’s Innovation Catalyst, used machine learning techniques to examine 180,000 articles about climate change and related environmental issues.
Climate change was just one of the team’s focus areas and was chosen because it is one of our most critical social issues at this moment in time.
The analysis found that Australian news journalists have overwhelmingly produced stories and narratives that serve the needs of the powerful and significantly distract from critical policy and social issues that affect ordinary Australians.
The full findings are detailed in a
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