Paris, November 10, 2009 - Internews, the international NGO that empowers local media worldwide, announced the fifteen winners of the Earth Journalism Awards today, and opened the online public voting to find the winner of a sixteenth prize. The finalists were selected out of some 900 journalists, bloggers and young creatives from 148 countries who registered to send in their best climate change reports from 2009 in the lead up to the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen next month. More...

In June 2009, the Internews Network, a global media development organization, launched the Earth Journalism Awards to honor professional or nonprofessional journalists promoting awareness of climate change issues. The winners will be announced at the COP15 conference in Copenhagen in December. Here, Ssekika Edward and Maria C. Valencia (following article), two young earth journalists who are part of the Internews Network, report on the situation in their countries. More...

(August 12, 2009) Internews announced today that Dr. Rajendra Pachauri, the Indian climate change scientist who chairs the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and shared the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize with former U.S. Vice President Al Gore, will co-host the Earth Journalism Awards ceremony in Copenhagen in December. More...

(July 22, 2009) The Climate Change Media Partnership has chosen the winners of its 2009 Fellowship programme. The 40 outstanding journalists from 26 developing nations faced stiff competition from a field of 600 applicants. More...

Internews launched the Earth Journalism Awards competition on World Environment Day today with a call to professional and citizen journalists around the world to enter their best reporting on climate change. Winners will be flown to the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP15) in Copenhagen this December, where they will cover these pivotal negotiations and be honoured at a high-profile awards ceremony. More...