Percentage of Journalists Who Indicated These As Obstacles for Climate Change Reporting

• Date: 01 February 2015

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Source: K. Huang & D. Poulson, Knowledge Ab out Climate Cha nge Among Regional Journalists and Cli mate Scientists, Research

presented at the Graduate Academic Conference, Michiga n State University, East Lansi ng, Michigan (Mar. 2012).

Percentage of Journalists Who Indicated These As

Obstacles for Climate Change Reporting

My supervi sor does not believe it

Negative rea ctions of readers

My supervi sor believes it’s unimpor tant

Lack of scient if‌ic certainty

Lack of access t o appropriate visual s

Lack of reade r/viewer interest

Lack of trus ted scientif‌ic inform ation

Lack of reade rs’ support

My lack of suf f‌icient knowledge

Lack of mana gement support

Lack of time

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