Mart Ots, Leona Achtenhagen, Peter Berglez, Maria Grafström, and Ulrika Olausson won the Best Paper Award 2023 for their paper: “Sustainable communication: Roles and challenges of news media organizations in mobilizing trust and engagement in the sustainability agenda”.
Abstract:
News media are key creators of sustainability discourse and agenda setters for what are considered urgent issues in the work toward Agenda 2030. Nonetheless, their influence is surprisingly absent from scholarly discussions on how to attain the Sustainable Development Goals. This paper aims to fill this gap and explores how news media, in their function as information intermediaries, create important conditions for, and can be catalysts of, society’s entire ecology of stakeholder initiatives and relations. Drawing on theories from media and business communication, this conceptual paper elaborates three roles that news media play in shaping information environments to support stakeholder trust and engagement in the sustainability agenda (verification, legitimation, and motivation). Further, it examines three journalistic ideals that shape news media’s performance of their roles (professional independence, transparency, and newsworthiness).
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Mart Ots and Leona Achtenhagen were also awarded the Best Paper Presentation at #emmapamplona!
