Basic concepts of environmental journalism

Abstract

Giving a clear definition of the term «environmental journalism», it is most reasonable to start from the concept of journalism. As far as we know that journalism is the collection, processing and dissemination of information, accordingly it we can safely give a definition of environmental journalism as a collection, processing and dissemination of data associated with the theme of ecology. In the field of environmental journalism, the main role-plays the journalist, who seeks to enrich the public knowledge about ecological issues of different levels. He reaches his goal by elevating the quality, range of his publication and depth coverage of different environmental disasters. Nowadays, when we are often faced by such definitions as political journalism, social journalism etc. the definition ecological journalism begins to be more interest for the society and the state.