Quality of Media Depictions of Mobility in Transition—An Experts’ Assessment of News Coverage in Germany

This contribution investigates the quality of news media coverage on transition mobility and transport in Germany as judged by experts journalism mobility. Mass serves a crucial function reaching an informed political consensus about paths towards sustainable Political actors, experts, general public need to be correctly comprehensively relevant demands options for transitioning systems. However, are often accused failing serve their functions interest. Coverage scientific issues is frequently criticized, e.g., being incomplete, inaccurate, or skewed negatively elite standard sources. No research, however, has been undertaken analyze how well conforms professional standards. We aim at this research gap using semi-structured interviews with transport/mobility from academia journalism. Experts’ expectations unveiled, insights derived meets them. find that several blind spots, seeming downplay, ignore, inaccurately report issues. Findings further show reporting slowly shifting focus automobility more diverse presentation system, while relevance complexity transformation processes not yet presented sufficiently comprehensibly heterogeneous public.