Various Actors in Making Climate Change Discourses

A wide range of actors can be identified as the news sources across the newspapers. They can be governmental bodies, business actors, NGOs, academic communities and subnational agencies. People’s Daily and China Daily could construct the voices of central and ministerial governmental bodies substantially in line with their statements and positions because they are labelled as national official newspapers. China Daily cites a wide range of social actors including businesses and NGOs to construct climate discourse in coverage. However, Southern Weekend is labelled as a highly marketised newspaper and therefore it cites a wide range of actors as news sources beyond governmental bodies. And, this work selects a number of cases to compare and contrast the discourses between their own documents and the climate coverage.