Making Every Day Earth Day: How Environmental Journalism is an Investment in Our Planet

The Earth Day 2022 theme is “Invest in our Planet”, and we discussed all the ways that investing in robust environmental media is indeed an investment in our planet.

We had media researchers and experts speak about the importance of accountability journalism and the conditions that enable stories to effect change on the ground, the challenges and opportunities facing environmental and climate journalism today and more.

Speakers:

• Elisabeth Eide — Professor Emerita at Oslo Metropolitan University and co-chair of the MediaClimate Network (email)
• Andrés Bermúdez Liévano — Journalist at the Latin American Center for Investigative Journalism (email) 
• Diego Arguedas Ortiz — Network Manager at the Oxford Climate Journalism Network, Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at the University of Oxford (email) 

Moderator:

• James Fahn — EJN's Executive Director