Call for Chapter Abstracts for “Sustainable Journalism
– A Global Case Study Approach”
Editors:
Please send your abstract (200-350 words) and a short biography by 15 March 2025 to Yijiao Wang (yijiao.wang@nottingham.edu.cn). Proposers will be notified about decisions concerning acceptance by 1st May 2025. A book proposal will then be submitted for possible publication in the Routledge or the Palgrave/Springer.
Supported by the Erasmus+ project entitled Sustainable Development Goals in Journalism Reporting (SDGs_JournalismReporting, 2019-2023), this edited volume aims to study sustainable journalism using up-to-date case studies drawn from around the world. Sustainable journalism is an emerging and fast-growing research field that integrates sustainable development with news reporting. The term of Sustainable Journalism occurred in 2017 with the publication of anthology entitled What Is Sustainable Journalism? Integrating the Environmental, Social, and Economic Challenges of Journalism edited by Peter Berglez, Ulrika Olausson and Mart Ots. Since then, a number of online reports, news stories, journal articles, conferences, curriculum/programme have followed the suit.
In this volume, sustainable journalism is defined as the role of news organisations and journalists in tackling two interlocked crisis – global sustainability crisis in society and crisis in face of news industry (Berglez, Olausson & Ots, 2017; Tallert, 2021). Content wise, news outlets are responsible to cover the environmental and societal challenges in relation to the 17 Sustainable Development Goals set in the UN’s 2030 agenda. Business wise, news organizations need to explore and implement a sustainable business model, which ensures their financial health on the one hand, and enables them to tackle mis(dis) information, fake news and trust issues on the other.
This edited volume adopts case studies, the most widely used strategies in qualitative social research, to address and study the multifaceted sustainable journalism. Yin (2009, p. 18, cited in Priya, 2021) defines case study as an empirical in-depth study of a social phenomenon in its real-life context. We herein take country as a research unit and authors may focus on any specific issues or challenges in a country from Global North or Global South.
The Editors are particularly concerned to address the following topics, but authors are welcome to focus on other relevant themes.
Chapters can focus primarily on theoretical or practice issues and concerns within sustainable journalism, or both. Contributions of a theoretical, conceptual, empirical and/or comparative nature are welcome.
References:
Berglez, P., Olausson, U., & Ots, M. (2017). What is sustainable journalism? Integrating the Environmental, Social, and Economic Challenges of Journalism, Peter Lang.
Priya, A. (2021). Case Study Methodology of Qualitative Research: Key Attributes and Navigating the Conundrums in Its Application, Sociological Bulletin, 70 (1), 94–110.
Tallert, L. (2021). From traditional journalism to sustainable journalism. Global Investigative Journalism Network. https://gijn.org/stories/from-traditional-journalism-to-sustainable-journalism/
