Tamera Khan

Despite the growing concern over environment and media coverage of environmental issues, previous studies are more focused on Western countries, paying limited attention to other environmentally critical regions like South Asia. To bridge this gap, this study, emphasizing the context of Bangladesh, endeavors to understand how media frames environmental news. Analyzing 1,119 environmental news stories based on framing theory and following topic modeling method, we find that the media prioritize the following topics: brick kilns, pollution, air, monsoon, power plant, death, meteorology, climate change, environmental management, and water. As individual issues, climate change and air quality receive remarkable attention from the media. It is also assumed that public frames may influence media frames in terms of environmental news coverage, and media can deliberately try to reinforce public perceptions through framing. This study offers some conceptual and methodological insights for future communication and environment researchers.