Webinar with Dr. Waqas Ejaz, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Oxford Climate Journalism Network at the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, University of Oxford
We have looked at how to cover the climate crisis, pitching climate change stories to editors, what it means to be an environmental journalist, and several other related topics. But what about the audience? What do we really know about how they access news and information about climate change?
This month, our good friends at the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at the University of Oxford released a new report that looks at how people access news and information about climate change. We are glad to be joined this week by the lead author of that report, Dr. Waqas Ejaz.
Ejaz and his colleagues provided insights on people’s attitudes toward climate change news, including who they trust as sources of information, how climate news makes them feel, and how well they think news media are covering it. They also took what they described as preliminary steps in understanding how each of these are correlated with climate change beliefs, attitudes and behaviors. These are insights that he will be sharing with us.
Ejaz is a postdoctoral research fellow with the Oxford Climate Journalism Network at the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, University of Oxford. He earned his PhD at the Technical University of Ilmenau, Germany. His research interests include digital media, climate change, political, and computational communication.
Since his doctorate, he has been working as an assistant professor in Pakistan, where he has looked at climate change journalism, conspiracy theories related to COVID-19, and media representations. At the Reuters Institute, he is working on an international comparative survey to understand how people consume news on climate change and its impact on a range of different attitudes.
