This book examines how the news media in general, and investigative journalism in particular, interprets environmental problems and how those interpretations contribute to the shaping of a discourse of risk that can compete against the omnipresent and hegemonic discourse of modernisation in Chinese society.

Autorentext
Jingrong Tong is Lecturer at the University of Leicester, UK, and author of Investigative Journalism in China: Journalism, Power, and Society.

Inhalt
Introduction 1. Modernisation, Environmental Problems and Chinese Society 2. Twenty-years of Environmental Investigative Reporting: Agendas, Social Interests and Voices 3. The Discourse of Risk: Environmental Problems and Environmentalism in Chinese Press Investigative Reports 4. Environmental Investigative Journalists and their Work 5. Offline Investigative Journalism and Online Environmental Crusades 6. Hegemony and Counter-Hegemony: Investigative Journalism between Modernisation and Environmental Problems Bibliography