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Abstract This study focuses on the implementation of climate journalism in Turkey via drought news. With this study, it is aimed to determine how much the features of climate journalism are applied in Turkey, by comparing the drought news in the mainstream media and environmental media, and how much reference is made to the existence of the impact of climate crisis and human activities. In this context, content analysis was carried out on 299 news about drought published on the digital platforms of Hürriyet, Sabah, Sözcü and Yeşil Newspaper between 1 June and 31 August 2022. Within the scope of content analysis, author, source, photograph, graphic, video, reference to climate crisis, reference to human impact, use of risk language, use of hyperlink, context and scope categories were created. According to the results of the analysis, it was seen that Yeşil Newspaper fictionalized its news about drought according to the characteristics of climate journalism. It is understood that Hürriyet Newspaper exhibits a structure that approaches a correct climate journalism practice among mainstream newspapers, although it is not sufficient. Although Sabah Newspaper shows a wide interest in the field of drought, it has been found that it does not make enough reference to the climate crisis and the impact of human activities and does not use the risk language mostly when constructing its contents. It has been understood that Sözcü Newspaper, on the other hand, covers very little news about drought and does not comply with the criteria of climate journalism in these news, but organizes its news with short, informational content. Keywords: climate journalism, climate crisis, drought, media, content analysis