While doing work on climate, media and journalism in our respective countries (see list of publications), we have also undertaken four joint research projects:
Covering COPs (Climate summits). MediaClimate did research on the coverage of climate summits (particularly Bali and Copenhagen) in 17 countries. Read more in these books: “Global Climate – Local Journalisms (Projekt Verlag 2010)” and “Media Meets Climate” (Nordicom 2012)
Covering the IPCC. The International Panel on Climate Change. MediaClimate did research on the media coverage of the IPCC AR5 report (2015) coverage: Read more in this book: “Media and Global Climate Knowledge (Palgrave 2017).
The Youth Project. MediaClimate interviewed 31 young, leading climate activists in 23 countries across the world and published an article in Climatic Change (2021) “Voices of a generation: The Communicative power of youth activism.” https://doi.org/10.1007/s10584-021-03211-z
The Climate Education Project. Members MediaClimate edited and contributed to a Special Issue of Journalism Education (2024), with experiences from a variety of countries in Europe, Asia and Africa. Read more here: Issue 13.2 – AJE Journal
Climate Journalism Education Training Workshop
From the year 2022, this project is a main priority of the MediaClimate network. There are a few institutions of higher learning offering courses of short or longer duration focusing on climate journalism. There is a need for many more.
In 2022, two workshops were conducted by scholars at FCCU – A Chartered University, Lahore, Pakistan, in co-operation with JMIC/MediaClimate, including discussions on how to integrate climate issues in existing programs at more than ten universities. This gives hope for the future of climate journalism in a country, which in 2022 was severely hurt by flood caused by melting glaciers. A similar workshop was held at the American University in Cairo before the COP27 in Sharm-el Sheikh. At Dhaka University, a master course was held on climate journalism and included student field work.
In 2023, two lecturers from Universitas Indonesia, Indonesia’s largest university, will visit OsloMet for a climate journalism course (Arctic Lenses) in March. Furthermore, our MediaClimate partner in the Indian state of Odisha (Orissa) will in cooperation with two local universities conduct course on climate migration. Other news on educational initiatives are welcome!
For reading more about the climate journalism education workshops held in Lahore, Pakistan and Cairo, Egypt, in co-operation with JMIC/MediaClimate, follow the links given below:
Climate Journalism Education Workshop, FCCU – Lahore, Pakistan
2nd Climate Journalism Education Workshop, FCCU – Lahore, Pakistan
Promoting Climate Journalism Education, American University – Cairo, Egypt