Thomson Reuters Foundation: Reporting on Locally Led Adaptation to Climate Change

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This is a training opportunity provided by Thomson Reuters Foundation, with the support of the Global Center on Adaptation. This training opportunity for 12 multimedia journalists in will offer a chance to deepen understanding of the impact of climate change at a local level, and hone skills to draw urgent attention to them through news reporting.

Thomson Reuters Foundation’s dual-track programme offers an excellent opportunity for journalists and civil society organizations (CSOs) to collaborate towards raising awareness and visibility of locally-led adaptation efforts to climate change.

The dual-track programme aims to strengthen trust between journalists and non-governmental organizations (NGOs)/CSOs by up skilling journalists to better report on the topic and enhancing CSOs’ communications to effectively convey their message to the media.

Who Can Apply

This training opportunity is open to multimedia journalists working in local or national media organizations in developing countries, who have strong interest in covering local stories related to locally-led adaptation to climate change.

Benefits

At the end of the programme, you will be able to:

  • Deepen your understanding of the different facets and challenges of climate change impacts on vulnerable communities to produce high-impact, news, features and opinion pieces
  • Identify compelling story angles about solutions from local communities responding to the impacts of climate change
  • Enhance fact-checking techniques while sharpening your critical thinking skills to counter misinformation and increase your audience trust
  • Interview potentially vulnerable members of the public in a sensitive manner
  • You will become part of a global network that will support your efforts to champion locally-led adaptation to climate change.

Eligibility

This course is designed for journalists with experience or strong interest in climate change, public policy, and/or human rights. To better accommodate different time zones, priority will be given to journalists from Bangladesh, Egypt, Ghana, and Kenya.

  • Applicants must be full-time journalists or regular contributors for media organizations with a minimum of three years’ professional experience.
  • Participant must have a high proficiency level of spoken and written English.
  • Applicants must have access to a minimum internet speed of 8 MB/second
  • Applicants must commit to participating for the whole duration of the programme.

Application

For more information and application- https://www.trust.org/media-development/opportunities/?sfid=a053z00000xx2dUAAQ&sfProgId=a153z00001G5efHAAR&areaOfFocus=Climate%20Change,%20Environment%20&%20Resilience

Please complete and submit the application form before 6pm BST on 17 July 2022 and provide three examples of your previous work (ideally, articles published on the topic of climate change), either as links, or uploaded to this form.

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