{"id":1569,"date":"2009-06-05T06:38:37","date_gmt":"2009-06-05T14:38:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kqed.org\/climatewatch\/?p=1569"},"modified":"2009-06-05T06:38:37","modified_gmt":"2009-06-05T14:38:37","slug":"call-for-the-best-climate-change-reporting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/climatewatch\/2009\/06\/05\/call-for-the-best-climate-change-reporting\/","title":{"rendered":"Global Call for Climate Change Stories"},"content":{"rendered":"

Want a trip to Copenhagen to cover this year’s UN climate talks, but not sure how to pay for it?<\/p>\n

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Internews, an international media development organization, today launched The Earth Journalism Awards<\/em>,<\/a> a competition for the world’s best climate change reporting.\u00a0\u00a0Applicants can register and submit stories on the EJA website <\/a>until September 7, 2009,\u00a0when\u00a014 winners will be selected to be flown to Copenhagen in December to cover the UN talks<\/a> for their home countries and local media outlets.<\/p>\n

“The media has a hugely important role to play in helping to raise awareness about climate change, and environmental issues,” said James Fahn, the director of Internews’\u00a0 Earth Journalism Network.<\/p>\n

Winners will be selected for seven regions: Eurasia, South Asia, East Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa, Europe, and Australia. EJA will make awards for reporting in categories such as Human Voices, Energy, Forests, Nature and Climate Change. Then the non-profit will invite the public to vote online for the best story out of 14 finalists, which will be awarded the Global Public Award<\/em>.<\/p>\n

The competition is open to both professional “citizen” journalists from all over the world, and Fahn says there’s a special emphasis on engaging reporters from developing nations.<\/p>\n

“The people and communities most vulnerable to climate change often have the least information about it.\u00a0 It’s the marginalized, poor communities that have the most exposure to the impacts of climate change.\u00a0 They can generally see that climate change is happening but they don’t always know why, or what’s in store for the future.\u00a0 It’s important for us to fill this information gap,” said Fahn.<\/p>\n

Fahn says more than 300 journalists from eleven countries have already entered. EJA will fly the winners to Denmark for the next major round of UN climate talks in December.<\/p>\n

Climate Watch will feature EJA selected entries on this website.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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