Earth Journalism Network

Earth Journalism Network (EJN) is an Internews and Internews Europe project dedicated to the empowerment of environmental journalists from developing countries around the world. Internews is an international non-profit organization whose mission is to empower local media worldwide to give people the news and information they need, the ability to connect, and the means to make their voices heard. Through training workshops, the development of training and reference materials, broader platforms for production and distribution, and the dispersion of small grants, EJN has worked to establish and strengthen networks of environmental journalists since its founding in 2006. EJN’s members are thousands of journalists from 70 countries around the world. Together, they have produced over 3,500 stories for print, radio, and online outlets focusing specifically on issues such as climate change, biodiversity, water, environment health, and oceans and coastal resources.

Both independently and in partnership with other organizations, the Earth Journalism Network awards fellowships to top journalists that allow them to attend crucial events and conferences within the field of environmentalism. At these summits, which have included several Conferences of the Parties (COPs) and Rio+20, journalists participate in capacity-building activities and report on event developments for their local media outlets. Prior to and throughout these events, EJN holds numerous workshops to train reporters on the best practices of environmental journalism.

At the start of 2013, the Earth Journalism Network established a partnership with the graduate School of Communication of the University of California in Berkeley. The centerpiece of this collaboration will be a graduate level course on international environmental reporting, include overseas reporting trips for students, and, in future years, Fellowships for foreign mid-career journalists to attend U.C. Berkeley for a semester.

Designed to encourage innovation and creativity in environmental coverage, the creation of new environment journalists networks and building the capacity of journalists, the Earth Journalism Small Grant Project has so far supported ten projects in ten different countries of the world. In 2012, five projects in Argentina, Central Africa Republic, India, Philippines and Tunisia shared $50,000 to helped build news environment journalists networks while strengthening existing ones.

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