12 – 14 November 2024
Brussels, Belgium
The workshop focused on helping participants to understand scientific facts on climate change and biodiversity, and to learn how to improve their editorial coverage of those topics. Eleven journalists participated in the training held at the European Committee of the Regions and led by Sophie Roland.
Sophie Roland is a French investigative journalist and a certified trainer in Europe for Solutions Journalism Network (SJN). She trains French TV channels, (private channel TF1, public broadcaster France TV), national and local newspapers (Libération, La Croix) and school students in climate and solutions. In 2023, she was a coach for Telemundo Miami in the Climate Beacon Initiative, launched by SJN. In 2022, she co-authored “Upgrading journalistic practices to tackle the ecological emergency: a charter”, signed by 2000 journalists and 200 newsrooms and organizations in France. For more than 20 years, she worked for French National Public TV, France Télévisions, including popular investigative programs “Envoyé Spécial” and “Cash Investigation.”
Day 1 – Arrival 7PM
Welcome Dinner
Day 2 – Full day 9AM – 18PM
- What is carbon footprint?
- Why climate change is affecting the world and Europe?
- Scientific key points of the IPCC & the planetary boundaries
- COP & Green deal in Europe: the keys to fight climate change?
- Weather events coverage: which words & images to use, which experts to help?
- Use solutions journalism in your climate reporting
- Tips to avoid greenwashing
- Exercise: interview with a company or a politician, the good questions to ask
Day 3 – Half Day 9AM – 1PM
- Examples of the best formats, reporting, explainer on climate change in the media
- Exercise: pitches on climate stories and new formats
- Resources
