Updates

In honor of this year’s Earth Day theme, “Protect Our Species,” Internews’ Earth Journalism Network is launching our Pangolin Project, a special reporting initiative that looks at the growing illegal

• Read more about EJN Kicks Off Pangolin Series on Earth Day

Internews’ Earth Journalism Network (EJN) held its annual Training of Trainers (ToT) at the end of March in Palawan, the Philippines, bringing together more than 30 participants, including staff, media grantees and partners.

• Read more about Earth Journalism Network Training of Trainers Explores Climate and Data Journalism, Eco-Tourism and Safety Challenges

Philippines-based journalist Fatima Arkin, the recipient of a 2016 grant from Internews’ Earth Journalism Network, was recognized as the best young environmental journalist of the year at the Asian Environmental Journalism Awards (AEJA) held last month in Singapore.

• Read more about EJN Grantee Receives Top Young Environmental Reporter Award

In early March, the Earth Journalism Network’s Bay of Bengal Project partnered with the rights-based research and advocacy organization VOICE to host a media workshop in Bhola, Bangladesh, focused on climate change and its impact on marginalized communities.

• Read more about Media Workshop in Bangladesh Highlights Struggles Faced by Fishing Boat Communities

Internews, in partnership with the Google News Initiative (GNI), has trained thousands of journalists in India and Indonesia to combat disinformation and misinformation using Google and other tools to conduct online verification, data searches, reverse image searches and video verification.

• Read more about #FactcheckingDay Celebrated by Participants in Internews’ Google News Initiative Training