Once a novelty, the climate change story is now as big as the world, and as local as your back yard. As the story itself has been expanding, so has the journalistic coverage. Today, it is no longer owned by journalists on science and environmental beats. In addition to government and political beats, global warming can be found in beats ranging from international affairs (think climate treaties), to technology (think solar panels), to business (think green industries) and even to the simple general assignment beat (think forest fires, and deaths and illness from heat waves). That’s the goal of this course ― to give non-expert reporters and citizen journalists a firm grounding in the science and policy underlying climate change. More...

In addition to bringing 40 CCMP Journalism Fellows and 15 Earth Journalism Award winners to COP15, EJN has helped launch an online climate change course and embarked on its first Third Pole Project training. More...

Climate change stories in Vietnamese media have increased more than tenfold since 2006 and three fold during the last year alone. More...

With the goal of expanding and improving media coverage of climate change, Internews and The Poynter Institute's News University have launched a free online journalism course to give reporters and citizen journalists a firm grounding in the science and policy underlying climate change. More...

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...