Internews Network and Internews Europe developed the Earth Journalism Network (EJN) to empower and enable journalists from developing countries to cover the environment more effectively. EJN establishes networks of environmental journalists in countries where they don't exist, and builds their capacity where they do, through training workshops and development of training materials, support for production and distribution, and dispersing small grants.
Fri, 2011-12-16
More than 170 people gathered for the first Climate Communications Day, organized by Internews amid the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change Summit in Durban. And for the fifth year in a row, Internews and its partners sponsored...
Thu, 2011-11-17
When scientists, journalists and academics gather in December at this year's UNFCCC Climate Change Summit in South Africa, we will bring together hundreds of media and communication professionals at a special event to look at innovative ways in which climate change is being communicated and to continue to seek out new ideas.
Sat, 2011-10-15
European journalists got a taste of the complex world of oceans and seafood last week, participating in a conference on the EU Common Fisheries Policy in Dublin conducted by Internews’ Earth Journalism Network (EJN). Fourteen journalists from 8 countries met with a veritable buffet of stakeholders and sources – including policy-makers...
Tue, 2011-10-11
The Earth Journalism Network has established a small grants fund with flexible spending guidelines that will invest in strategic opportunities for media development, build the capacities of local environmental journalism networks and their members, and respond to their communities’ needs.
Thu, 2011-10-06
The Climate Change Media Partnership (CCMP) has awarded journalists from 14 countries with fellowships to attend crucial UN talks in Durban that could spell the demise or rebirth of the Kyoto Protocol.
Fri, 2011-09-02
The Third Pole Project of chinadialogue and the Earth Journalism Network is organizing a three-day Media Workshop on Climate Change Effects in the Yarlung Zangbo/Brahmaputra Basin for journalists from Bangladesh, China and India from October 14-16 2011. Download application...
Wed, 2011-08-03
Journalists and communicators from around the Amazon region explored the area’s biodiversity, the causes of deforestation and how to use Google mapping tools to explain it all in an innovative workshop carried out last week by Internews, O Eco and the Articulación Regional Amazónica (ARA).
Mon, 2011-07-11
By James Fahn, Executive Director of the Earth Journalism Network
Several Middle Eastern countries are pouring money into research; will it work?
Wed, 2011-06-15
The Climate Change Media Partnership published a briefing paper that recommends ways for policymakers to support a better class of climate change journalism that is relevant to local audiences, builds public awareness of the issues and contributes to improved policymaking. It is available in English and French at...
Tue, 2011-06-07
Members find strength -- and challenges -- in numbers, writes EJN Executive Director James Fahn in his monthly column for the Columbia Journalism Review. Over the last two decades, similar associations have proliferated, bringing together journalists who cover environmental issues. An informal survey suggests there are around two dozen such organizations now active around the world.
Reporting on climate change is an important but challenging task.... more
A series of media briefs on REDD+ and the need to prevent any... more
The Biodiversity Media Alliance aims to boost the quantity and... more
Once a novelty, the climate change story is now as big as the... more
