Paola Prado: Tilting at Windmills - The Quixotic Quest to Report Environmental News in South America
Channel: MetcalfInstitute
Date: 2019-11-01

Informed by 10 years of research about environmental news in Latin America, Paola Prado, Ph.D., an associate professor of Journalism and Digital Media and Program Coordinator for Latin American and Latino Studies at Roger Williams University, sets forth a theoretical critique of journalistic culture and news coverage of environmental change. It argues for a more complicated assessment of power relations in terms of influences upon local reporting of environmental risk and climate change, impacted geographies and populations. Dr. Prado spoke at Metcalf Institute's 2019 InclusiveSciComm Symposium held at the University of Rhode Island, September 27-29, 2019. Learn more at inclusivescicomm.org.