The document discusses media coverage of environmental reporting practices at a seminar workshop, highlighting major observations such as event-focused reporting, lack of contextualization, and the need for deeper analysis of policy implications. It emphasizes the complexity of environmental issues, particularly in cases like deforestation and mining, advocating for a more nuanced understanding that considers relationships across different environmental segments. The document suggests involving various stakeholders, including communities, NGOs, and academic institutions, to enhance environmental reporting.

1. Scanning the Landscape:
Media Coverage of the Env't
PPI Seminar Workshop on Environmental Reporting

2. My work environment

3. Major observations about environmental reporting
practice in the local/regional media
• event-focused (destruction, protests)
• lack of contextualizing
• need to have more depth; identifying gaps and pointing out policy,
regulatory implications
(Centrality of local context for nuanced appreciation of macro trends)

4. Exploring Relationships: (Ridge-to-reef frame)
Upstream
Downstream
Midstream

5. Exploring Relationships: (Ridge-to-reef frame)
DEFORESTATION
URBAN FLOODING

6. The case of mining
• confined to the question of whether “to extract or not to extract”
• but the issue is not that simple
• The case of Sarangani
• The case of Zamboanga Sibugay
• The case of Bayog in Zamboanga del Sur

7. Taking abreast of in-depth trends
• Communities
• NGOs/advocates
• Govt agencies and bodies
• Academic institutions
• Personal study