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How the Media Report Scientific Risk and Uncertainty

Based on an extensive review of the academic literature, this study examines the media’s reporting of risk and uncertainty around environmental and health stories, summarising how, when and scientific stories involving them are reported, outlining theoretical approaches to media practices, and analysing the factors that lie behind the creation of news stories.

Published by the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism with the Green Templeton College Academic Initiative Small Grants scheme.

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