[Commlist] Call for chapters on Sustainable Journalism

*Call for Chapter Abstracts for “Sustainable Journalism – A Global Case 
Study Approach”*
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*(*no payment from the authors)
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*Title:* *Sustainable Journalism – A Global Case Study Approach* (eds.)
Editors:
Prof. Shixin Ivy Zhang, Full Professor in Journalism Studies, University 
of Nottingham Ningbo China
Dr. Vikrant Kishore, Associate Professor in International 
Communications, University of Nottingham Ningbo China
Dr. Qumo Ren, Associate Professor in Communication Studies, Guizhou 
University of Finance and Economics, China
Dr. Yijiao Wang, PhD graduate from University of Nottingham Ningbo China
*Please send your abstract (200-350 words) and a short biography by 15 
March 2025 to Yijiao Wang (*(yijiao.wang /at/ 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.

 1. The news coverage of UN’s SDGs (Sustainable Development Goals) such
    as wars/conflicts, gender inequality, climate change, environmental
    crisis, etc.
 2. The roles and practices of news organizations and journalists in
    sustainable development
 3. The impact of digital technology such as AR/VR, AI, algorism on
    sustainable development
 4. Education and training of sustainable journalism
 5. The business model of news outlets (legacy and new media)
 6. How to combat fake news and regain media trust
 7. Mobile journalism in sustainable development
 8. Citizen/participatory journalism in sustainable development

  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/

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