Earth Journalism Network

10/13/2026

🚢 🐟 In a fishing town on China’s east coast, 37 fishermen pooled their money to build a deep-sea research vessel. Months after its launch, it’s still waiting for its first assignment.

The third story in our series, reported by Chengyu Wang and Tim Wu for Initium Media 端傳媒, looks at China’s growing push to explore the deep ocean—and why the business behind it hasn’t caught up.

📰 Read the full story: https://loom.ly/BbU3_Xg

Mining the Unknowns is a cross-border collaboration on deep-sea mining across the Asia-Pacific, produced with support from Internews’ Earth Journalism Network.

10/09/2026

🌊 The High Seas Treaty is now in effect—and this January, countries meet for its first-ever COP. Want to be in the room? Apply for our BBNJ COP1 Reporting Fellowship! 👇

Also known as the Agreement on the Conservation and Sustainable Use of Marine Biological Diversity of Areas Beyond National Jurisdiction (BBNJ), the treaty will bring countries together in New York City on January 11–22, 2027, to take up questions like how to classify marine protected areas on the high seas and how to evaluate the environmental impact of activities beyond national borders.

We're supporting 10 journalists to travel there and report from BBNJ COP1.

Fellows receive:
🔹 Airfare, accommodation, meals, travel medical insurance, and a per diem
🔹 Press accreditation and logistical support
🔹 A pre-conference virtual workshop and an orientation day with ocean experts
🔹 Daily briefings and story guidance from EJN's media trainers

Open to professional journalists reporting from coastal countries, in any medium, with experience covering ocean issues. Freelancers are welcome to apply with a letter of support from a media outlet. We especially encourage journalists from Namibia, Ecuador, Peru, Seychelles, Japan, Spain, Canada, and South Korea to apply.

📅 Apply by October 27: https://loom.ly/qv0msW8

10/08/2026

🌊 Más de 190 países se han comprometido a proteger el 30% de los océanos para 2030, pero hasta ahora solo el 3.5 % cuenta con protección completa o de alto nivel. ¿Quieres informar sobre lo que se necesita para cerrar esa brecha? ¡Inscríbete en nuestros talleres virtuales para medios de comunicación! 👇

En febrero y marzo de 2027, EJN organizará talleres virtuales de tres días sobre la meta 30x30 y las soluciones existentes para garantizar la protección marina. Podrás escuchar a investigadores, funcionarios, organizaciones de la sociedad civil y comunidades locales que trabajan en la conservación marina, y desarrollarás ideas para reportajes con entrenadores de periodismo.

Estos talleres están dirigidos a periodistas de Ghana, México y Filipinas, tres países que albergan importantes puntos de biodiversidad marina.

Los talleres:

🔹 Ghana: semana del 15 de febrero (en inglés)

🔹 México: semana del 22 de febrero (en español)

🔹 Filipinas: semana del 1 de marzo (en inglés)

Abierto a periodistas de cualquier medio, creadores de contenido y otros profesionales de medios que cubran temas relacionados con los océanos. En especial, invitamos a mujeres, periodistas de zonas rurales, periodistas indígenas y periodistas que estén iniciando su carrera a postularse.

Los participantes que acudan a todas las sesiones recibirán un certificado y tendrán prioridad para obtener una beca de $1,500 dólares destinada a la creación de historias.

📅 Solicite antes del 2 de noviembre: https://loom.ly/gNiyXQo

EJN organizará talleres virtuales para medios de comunicación de tres días de duración en febrero de 2027, dirigidos a periodistas de Ghana, México y Filipinas, con el fin de fortalecer sus conocimientos

10/08/2026

🌊 More than 190 countries have pledged to protect 30% of the ocean by 2030—but so far, only 3.5% is fully or highly protected. Want to report on what it will take to close that gap? Apply for our virtual media workshops! 👇

In February and March 2027, EJN is hosting three-day virtual workshops on the 30x30 target and the solutions in place to ensure marine protection. You'll hear from researchers, policymakers, civil society organizations and local communities working on marine conservation, and work through story ideas with journalism trainers.

These workshops are for journalists in Ghana, Mexico and the Philippines—three countries home to significant marine biodiversity hotspots.

The workshops:
🔹 Ghana: week of February 15 (in English)
🔹 Mexico: week of February 22 (in Spanish)
🔹 Philippines: week of March 1 (in English)

Open to journalists in any medium, content creators and other media practitioners covering ocean issues. We especially encourage women, rural, Indigenous and early-career journalists to apply.

Participants who attend every session will receive a certificate and special consideration for a $1,500 story grant.

📅 Apply by November 2: https://loom.ly/xSsvwI4

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10/07/2026

🌊🇨🇰 The Cook Islands is weighing whether to mine its seabed, home to some of the world's richest mineral deposits. Supporters see a way to diversify the economy. Activists fear Indigenous Cook Islanders will bear the consequences.

📝 Losi Dasalusalu reports for Cook Islands News in the latest from , our cross-border collaboration on deep-sea mining across the Asia-Pacific region.

🔗 Read the full story: https://loom.ly/483IUSs

10/05/2026

🌊 The ocean covers more than 70% of the planet, yet it remains some of the least-covered ground in the news. We're working to change that.

From September 15–17, EJN and Schmidt Ocean Institute brought together Brazilian journalists, marine scientists, and policy experts for three days of intensive training focused on strengthening ocean reporting in Brazil.

Workshop Participants:

🚢 Toured the research vessel R/V Falkor (too), gaining a firsthand look at how scientists map and explore the deep sea, including with the remotely operated vehicle SuBastian

🌿 Met with the Indigenous community of Japuara to learn about traditional ecological knowledge and hear local concerns about hyperscale data centers and tourism development on the coast

📊 Learned to investigate fishing activity, marine heatwaves, and coastal change using Global Fishing Watch and Copernicus Marine data

They left with new story ideas, and with a growing network of journalists committed to putting the ocean on Brazil's front pages.

Thank you to trainers Sam Schramski, Gustavo Faleiros, Maristela Crispim, and Professor Ronaldo Christofoletti for making this possible.

🔗 Read more: https://loom.ly/_dhHNjU

The ocean covers more than 70% of the planet, yet much of it remains poorly understood by the public and underreported in the media. To help journalists strengthen their coverage of marine issues and

10/01/2026

📣 Introducing Mining the Unknowns, our latest cross-border investigation into deep-sea mining across the Asia-Pacific 🌊👇

We've partnered with five newsrooms across the region— Cook Islands Television News, DUNIA, Solomon islands Business Magazine, 東洋経済オンライン, and Initium Media 端傳媒—to dig into the people, politics and industries driving the race to mine the seabed, and the ecosystems and communities with the most to lose.

In South Korea, journalist Grace Moon reveals how the country has quietly built a foothold across nearly every stage of the future seabed minerals supply chain. Yet South Korea has repeatedly failed to pass a law regulating deep-sea mining in international waters, a gap experts warn could put one of Earth's least explored habitats at risk.

🔗 Read the full story: https://loom.ly/rCtRGy8

09/30/2026

📣 We're proud to announce our COP31 Climate Change Media Partnership (CCMP) Reporting Fellows, heading to Antalya, Türkiye 🇹🇷, to cover COP31 from November 9–20. 👇

🌐 Following a highly competitive selection process, the Earth Journalism Network, Informed Earth, and the Stanley Center for Peace and Security have selected 14 journalists and two independent creator-journalists from across Asia, Africa, Europe, Latin America and the Pacific to report on the negotiations shaping the next phase of global climate action — from climate finance and infrastructure to progress on mitigation and adaptation.

Supported by experienced journalists and media trainers on the ground — Joydeep Gupta, Fermín Koop and Imelda Abaño — our fellows will bring these global discussions closer to the communities most affected by climate change, helping audiences in climate-vulnerable countries understand what decisions made at mean for them.

📰 Since 2007, the CCMP has helped more than 550 journalists report from the annual United Nations climate summit.

👉 Learn more about the Reporting Fellowship: https://loom.ly/XUtnG28

👋 Meet the fellows:

🇮🇩 Anandabhuwana (Indonesia)
🇨🇴 Angelica Maria Daza Romero (Colombia)
🇮🇳 Aparna Bose (India)
🇱🇷 Aria Deemie (Liberia)
🇵🇰 Hammad Sarfraz (Pakistan)
🇿🇦 Lerato Tshilidzi Ida Mutsila (South Africa)
🇻🇪 Maria de los Ángeles Graterol Camacho (Venezuela)
🇧🇬 Maria Vasileva Petrova-Galabova (Bulgaria)
🇦🇷 Nadia Soledad Luna (Argentina)
🇧🇴 Nathalie Iriarte Villavicencio (Bolivia)
🇳🇬 Nkoli Lovelyn Omhoudu (Nigeria)
🇸🇧 Noel Charles Piringi (Solomon Islands)
🇰🇪 Ontomwa Francis Gekuno (Kenya)
🇧🇩 Shaikh Shahrukh Farhan (Bangladesh)
🇪🇹 Zenebe Hailu Gemechu (Ethiopia)

09/25/2026

🎬 It's here — our AMA on tracking journalism's impact is live!

You asked for it (literally — this topic won our community poll), so on September 21 we brought together newsroom leaders, journalists, and impact experts to tackle your toughest questions: What actually counts as impact? How do you prove your reporting moved the needle? And what tools make that job easier?

▶️ Watch now: https://youtu.be/QzwjX-qwtEY

We recently asked the EJN community what topic you’d like us to cov...

09/25/2026

🌍💸 Liệu tuyên bố "trung hòa carbon" đó có chân thật không hay chỉ là chiêu trò "tẩy xanh"?

Chúng tôi mới ra mắt một khóa học ngắn miễn phí về việc đưa tin về hiện tượng "tẩy xanh" (greenwashing), tập trung vào các tín chỉ carbon và hoạt động bù trừ carbon tự nguyện.

Trong học phần trực tuyến tự học này, bạn sẽ tìm hiểu về:

🌿 Greenwashing là gì và cách nhận biết nó
🔎 Cách thức hoạt động của tín chỉ carbon và các dự án bù trừ carbon
📝 Những điều nhà báo cần lưu ý khi đưa tin về chủ đề mang tính thời sự này

Khoá học này mở cửa cho mọi đối tượng, bao gồm cả những người không phải là thành viên EJN. 🌐

Khóa học này là một phần của "It's a Wash" – dự án đưa tin hợp tác xuyên biên giới của chúng tôi.

➡️ Bắt đầu học: https://loom.ly/kKz74fc