programs

Internews' Earth Journalism Network (EJN) and its partners bring one of the largest cohorts of international journalists to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) summit, COP16, in Cancun this November, linking the high-level global summit to the real impacts of climate change felt by millions around the world. 
  After a successful conference in Dublin, Ireland in 2011 Internews and The Earth Journalism Network (EJN) are pleased to announce two more journalism conferences, one in Germany & one in France, both specifically designed to support European journalists to broaden their understanding about European fisheries -- in particular the Common Fisheries Policy and the proposals to reform it. Both conferences will be facilitated by a veteran journalist and will bring at least 15 french...
Eight journalists from the People's Republic of China will attend the 10th Annual Seafood Summit  in Hong Kong as part of an Earth Journalism Network fellowship program taking place in early September. For a closer look at the Fellows, go here to read their bios. The program, which will be led by Jim Detjen, the founding president of the U.S. Society for Environmental Journalists, aims to boosts coverage of ocean and fisheries issues in Chinese media. Over the seven days of the fellowship...
Eight journalists from eight different countries are attending the IUCN World Conservation Congress being held in Jeju, Korea in early September, 2012 as part of an EJN Fellowship program. A description of each of the Fellows can be found here.  This program is aimed at working with journalists who cover agriculture and want to learn about and boost their coverage of agro-ecology and food sovereignty issues. The program is led by Jeff Rutherford, a journalism trainer who runs a...
CCMP Fellowships to the UNFCCC COP17 Climate Summit in South Africa       The Climate Change Media Partnership (CCMP) is proud to announce the launch of a Fellowship program that will send journalists to the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Durban (COP17) in late 2011. The Fellowships are open predominantly to journalists from developing countries, but journalists from the US and Russia are also welcome to apply.   Formed in 2007 by Internews’ Earth Journalism...
A group of 30 journalists that includes Fellows, editors, trainers and staff from 20 countries will report on the negotiations of the UN Conference on Sustainable Development, also known as the Rio+20 Summit, taking place in Brazil in June, 2012. Over 10 days, the journalists will participate in capacity-building activities focused on the main themes of the international meeting, have contact with sources of government, civil society and multilateral organizations, and provide locally relevant...
Eight journalists from across the Middle East and North African (MENA) region are attending the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) summit, COP18, in Doha, Qatar as part of an EJN Fellowship program. With a focus on linking MENA journalists both together and with high-level participants at this global summit, this program is designed to support a deeper understanding of climate change issues and spur media coverage in a region where millions feel its real impacts...