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Show 29 A slim but growing body of research examines journalism about environmental topics before the 1960s, but most point to the later time period as the birth and development of environmental journalism, coinciding with the environmental movement and the birth of the environmcm beat. This focus on contemporary issues without understanding the evolution accentuates the disconnect behveen historical coverage of environmental issues and contemporary environmental journalism. Most notable among those who have made inroads into the history of environmental journalism arc Neuzil and Kovarik. While their research focuses primarily on the role media have played in environmental conflict, it provides a structure for examining other aspects of environmental journalism history. Several historians have made contributions with journalism and national parks as a primary focus of research. Nickieann Fleener examined early news coverage of Yellowstone National Park and found that the change in American values that led to the creation of the national park were reflected in the journalism of the era.77 Fleener and Edward Ruddell also looked at news coverage of Yosemite and examined how it became a newsworthy place in the 1860s. 78 Stephen Ponder looked at the role of public relations and the press in conservation issues during the Progressive era. 79 His research gives understanding to the 77 Nickieann Fleener, "Changes in News Conventions during the Gilded Age: The Relationship between Cultural Values and News Definition in Press" (paper presented at the Symposium on the Nineteenth Century Press, The Civil War, and Free Expression - An Annual Conference on the Nineteenth Century Media and Free Expression, Chattanooga, TN, November 9, 2006). 78 Nickicann Fleener and Edward Ruddell, ··Yosemite's Transition from Space to Place: An Historical Investigation in Media's Role in the Place-Making Process" (presentation to the Magazine Division at the annual convention of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, Phoenix, AZ, August9-12,2000). 79 Stephen Ponder, "Federal News Management in the Progressive Era: Gifford Pinchot and the Conservation Crusade." Journulism History!] no. 2 (1986): 42-48 |
