Deadline: 30-Sep-22
The Climate Tracker is seeking applications for Caribbean Citizen Climate Journalism Fellowship to provide climate change knowledge and reporting know-how to citizens in communities within the Caribbean.
Leveraging civic participation to produce engaging climate change stories, Climate Tracker with the support of The Cropper Foundation will carry out a Citizen Climate Journalism Fellowship to train citizen representatives from Guyana, Suriname, and Trinidad and Tobago and build their capacity to communicate climate change.
These three locations are heavily impacted by extractive industrial activities and require urgent attention to protect and build community resilience in the region.
Within the media, the climate crisis has also most often been framed as an international diplomatic issue, rather than a domestic vehicle for societal change. While politics is certainly at play here, it is also due to the limited access and resources for these affected groups to put forward their voices, prioritise, and help them to publish powerful climate and environmental stories through an experienced intermediary, and push democracy to work for those affected by these powerful industry lobbies that continue these extractive behaviors.
Benefits
- Receive stipend for your published story
- Exposure of your profile to their global network
- Networking opportunities
- Training with technical experts and climate journalists.
What will you learn?
- Some of the areas this programme will cover include :
- Climate change in the Caribbean context
- Understanding the keys to effective climate journalism
- Linking community work with climate reporting
- The Caribbean energy sector and industry
- Climate activism and climate communications in action.
Criteria
- Their selected participants will embark on a 2-month learning and publishing journey, building their climate journalism skills and knowledge, while also constructing a network with journalists from their home country and the wider Caribbean region. Participants will gain exposure to a wide range of regional environmental experts that will provide a productive ecosystem in the community.
- Actively involved in environmental civil society work and want to learn about climate change and climate reporting and communications
- A citizen journalist aiming to learn about climate reporting
- Involved in communications and media and interested in learning about the climate crisis
- Have already published climate and environment stories
- From Suriname, Guyana, or Trinidad and Tobago
- Able to commit at least to group and individual meetings with your team and your mentor, respectively
- Able to commit to attending their training sessions
- Important to note, this opportunity is open to young, passionate climate journalists from around the world. They welcome applications from all age groups and backgrounds, but especially encourage younger journalists to apply, even if you feel like they might not have as much experience as other candidates.
For more information, visit https://climatetracker.org/caribbean-citizen-climate-journalism-fellowship-1/
