title: Risk in daily newspaper coverage of red tide blooms in Southwest Florida.
abstract: This study investigated newspaper coverage of Florida red tide blooms in four metropolitan areas of Southwest Florida during a 25-year period, 1987-2012. We focused on how journalists framed red tide stories with respect to environmental risk, health risk, and economic risk. We determined risk to be a key factor in this news coverage, being an aspect of coverage of red tide itself in terms of environmental risk, tourism risk, and public health risk. The study found that red tide news coverage is most often framed as an environmental story.
authors.affiliation: College of Mass Communications and Information Studies, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC 29208.
authors.forename: Zongchao
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Li
authors.affiliation: School of Communication, University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL 33124-2105. bruce@miami.edu .
authors.forename: Bruce
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Garrison
authors.affiliation: Center for Health Sector Management and Policy, School of Business Administration, University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL, 33124-9965. sullmann@bus.miami.edu .
authors.forename: Steven G
authors.initials: SG
authors.lastname: Ullmann
authors.affiliation: Environmental Health Program, Mote Marine Laboratory, Sarasota, FL 34236. bkirkpat@mote.org .
authors.forename: Barbara
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Kirkpatrick
authors.affiliation: European Centre for Environment and Human Health, University of Exeter, Medical School Knowledge Spa Royal Cornwall Hospital Truro, Cornwall, TR1 3HD, UK. l.e.fleming@exeter.ac.uk .
authors.forename: Lora E
authors.initials: LE
authors.lastname: Fleming
authors.affiliation: Marine Policy Center, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA 02543. phoagland@whoi.edu .
authors.forename: Porter
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Hoagland
keywords: Karenia brevis; Social amplification of risk; content analysis; environment communication; framing; news media; newspapers; red tide; risk communication