PROSES JURNALISME LINGKUNGAN HIDUP DI SURAT KABAR: STUDI DESKRIPTIF PADA REDAKSI RIAU POS TENTANG PEMBERITAAN KEBAKARAN HUTAN DAN LAHAN TAHUN 2017
Abstract
Forest and land fire in Riau has been an environmental issue since 1997/1998 until 2017. The reporting about forest and land fire is an environmental issue that becomes main concern of Riau Pos News Paper. Therefore, Riau Pos achieved appreciation from provincial government of Riau as a media that took role in supporting the handling of forest and land fire in 2016. The appreciation could not be separated from the process of environmental journalism as the effort to save the environmental. The main problem of the research was how environmental journalism process in Riau Pos in reporting about forest and land fire in 2017? By qualitative method, this research is presented and analyzed descriptively about reporting process of forest and land fire in Riau pos. The result of the research shows that environmental journalism process of Riau Pos in reporting forest and land fire has not been optimal. The report of forest and land fire was produced without investigation, the report of forest and lane fire just depend on source from government elite that was considered knowing more about forest and land fire rather than directly observing to the field. Description about forest and land fire consequences was still the main topic in framing from journalist and editor. Editing process was just conducted about editorial, to change the title and reduce the numbers of paragraphs in order to suit with the layout, which had been designed by the lay outer. So that the news about forest and lane fire had not complied the principle of environmental journalism.
