Media and Sustainable Development, Content Analysis of Environmental Reports in the Press and Explaining the Components of Environmental Journalism

"Environmental journalism" has been considered as one of the new disciplines aimed at raising citizen's awareness and teaching environmental issues in the world language, while the Iranian press still does not have a special environmental page. Increasing awareness and participation of people in environmental protection by journalists is necessary due to the occurrence of environmental crises.
Based on Agenda-Setting.T , Giving priority to environmental issues can enhance attention of people, the environmental literacy of citizens and authorities and their contribution to environmental protection.The main question of the present research is that the "professional criteria" of environmental journalism have been respected in the environmental press reports of Iran?
In this research, with a quantitative content analysis methodology, 200 environmental reports of four newspapers in Iran, Etemad, East and Shahrvand in 1994, were analyzed based on the global criteria of environmental journalism of Vybek Rogrener and analyzed by 12 variables
The findings show that 66.5 percent of the "process-oriented" criteria, 72.5 percent "expressing outcomes", 84 percent of the "opinion of the professors", and 66.5 percent of the "topic relevance to other geographic regions" are not met, and only in 2.5% of the reports use the "map and chart application" to facilitate information. In general, there are significant differences between newspapers in terms of the 12 criteria of environmental journalism.