Written by: Naira Shanab
The Egyptian Digital Union Media Club, in cooperation with the Climate School Initiative, held a lengthy training program last July, which lasted for 4 weeks at a weekly session.
The program targeted journalists, media professionals, and final-year students at media colleges from various Arab countries.
The training was provided by journalist and trainer Rahma Zia, founder of Al Manakh School.
The sessions included several topics, most notably:
_ Introduction to environmental and climate journalism
_ Simplifying and understanding scientific terms related to the environment and climate
_ Ways to find and develop ideas
-Writing stories about gender and climate change
_ The most prominent open sources in the field of environment and how to extract data from them
_Reading scientific studies and communicating with researchers
_Humanizing environmental stories and storytelling of environmental topics
-Methods of verifying and combating misleading news
_Training in preparing infographics via the Canva platform
_Learn about the most prominent newsletters, podcasts, and specialized websites
_How to present story proposals to editors and apply for grants
_Opportunity websites and networks of environmental journalists
_Training activities and tasks for each session
_Sessions to develop participants’ ideas and editorial supervision of implementation
15 male and female journalists from several Arab countries participated in the program, and at the end of the training, the participants produced digital reports on a climate change topic.
