This study examines the diversity of news sources in climate change reporting
in the Pakistani press. A longitudinal quantitative content analysis of climate
change reporting of five significant climate change-related events such as Earth
Summit ((1992), Rio de Janeiro, Kyoto Protocol (1997), Ratification of Kyoto Protocol
Globally (2005), COP15 (2009) Copenhagen and COP21 (2015) Paris is conducted.
The samples were selected through systematic random sampling technique by
choosing every alternate day of newspapers’ publications. A total of 1498 diverse
news sources were found in 324 climate change-related stories during the five
events mentioned above. The findings of this study revealed that elite sources
dominated the marginalized sources collectively in coverage of the three
newspapers during the five events. However, the climate change-related event/
incidents represented highly in the reporting of Pakistani press. Further, a thin
proportion of mentions of media-related sources such as News agencies and
Journalists also found. Thus, this study recommends that similar studies should
be conducted on news content of other soft and hard issues in Pakistani press
to examine the diversity of sources.