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ABSTRACT
The study set out to examine the coverage of climate change in The Guardian and Vanguard newspapers in the year 2022. The following objectives were raised for the study: To identify the dominant frames in the coverage of climate change in The Guardian and Vanguard newspapers in the year 2022, to identify the frequency of coverage of climate change in the The Guardian and Vanguard newspapers in the year 2022, to identify the prominence given to the coverage of climate change in the Guardian and Vanguard newspapers in the year 2022 and to determine the difference in coverage of climate change in The Guardian and Vanguard newspapers in the year 2022. The research was anchored on the agenda setting theory and the framing theory. The population for this study consisted of the daily publications of The Guardian and Vanguard newspapers published between the 1st of January, 2022 and December 31st, 2022. The use of purposive sampling was employed to generate the publications with the unit of interests for the study. The data collection technique that was employed for the content analysis study was a coding schedule to code the content of the samples. Statistical table, Simple percentage and the Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) was used to analyze and explain the data extracted from the content analysed. Findings from the content analysis revealed the following: The dominant frames deduced from the climate change coverage are health (7.1%), economic frame (51.8%) and disaster (41.1%), climate change issues appear 56 times in the papers. The prominence accorded to climate change in both papers is low as only 2 front page coverage of climate change in both papers (3.6%). There is no significant difference in coverage type by newspapers. There is no significant difference in the prominence given to climate change. There is no significant difference in space provided across papers and there is no significant difference in dominant frames across newspapers. The study recommends greater investment in journalists on climate change education that will expose journalists to all the ramifications of climate change effect and journalists should provide multi-dimensional approaches to the coverage of climate change issues.
