Deadline: 23-Sep-22
Join the Caribbean Climate Justice Journalism Fellowship to learn and publish stories about the search for solutions that deal with the core causes of climate change while addressing a wide range of social, racial, and environmental injustices that exist.
This fellowship will take a holistic and career-building perspective as they actively integrate their fellows into the building of a fruitful community for Caribbean climate journalists, storytellers, and communicators.
Focus Areas
- Some of the areas this programme will cover:
- Understanding the concept and key pillars of climate justice
- How does climate justice apply in the Caribbean?
- Telling the stories of climate justice
- The basics of climate reporting
- Digital journalism and the new media landscape
- Deep dive into social media as a storytelling tool in climate and environmental journalism
- The role of multimedia in telling the climate justice story.
Benefits
- Monthly stipend
- Global exposure of your profile and your stories
- Networking opportunities
- Training with technical experts and climate journalists.
Expectations
- As a selected fellow, you will be supported to publish one climate justice feature story in a local media outlet each month during the fellowship. These stories can incorporate written, audio, photo, or video journalism.
- You will have to pitch each of the stories to your journalism mentor each month, before working on your story.
- You will be required to attend:
- Group calls
- Training sessions
- calls with your mentor
- You will work alongside the Climate Tracker team to organise and conduct new media engagements through:
- Podcast episodes
- Instagram LIVE sessions
- Twitter Spaces
- Newsletter contributions
- In the last 2 months of the fellowship, you will get the chance to publish a final collaborative story. You’ll be partnered with 2 other fellows from other countries and will be challenged to collaboratively pitch, investigate, co-draft, and publish an insightful climate justice story that can be simultaneously published by each fellow.
Eligibility Criteria
- A Caribbean journalist interested in covering climate justice
- A Caribbean journalist with some experience in covering environmental issues but needs some guidance and training in reporting on climate justice
- A Caribbean journalist with some publications under your belt, interested in gaining knowledge and certification in climate justice
- A Caribbean journalism, media, or communications student with at least 1 year experience reporting or some publishing already done in the past year, looking for the chance to increase your knowledge and publishing profile
- Able to commit at least to fortnightly group and individual meetings with your team and your mentor, respectively
- Able to commit to attending their training sessions
- Between 18-35 years of age.
For more information, visit https://climatetracker.org/caribbean-climate-justice-journalism-fellowship-now-open-1/