Mother Earth Journal

Ten US environmental journalists, selected as Fellows from a large pool of applicants will cover the United Nations Climate Change Summit (COP16) in Cancun, Mexico Nov. 29 to Dec. 10, 2010, as part of a program launched this year by the Internews’ Earth Journalism Network.

The Fellows are Alexander Kelly, who reported COP15 for Investigate West; Bruce Gellerman, Living on Earth; Douglas Fischer, the Daily Climate; Kelly Benjamin, WMNF in Tampa, Florida; Laura Paskus, New Mexico Independent; Margot Roosevelt, Los Angeles Times; freelance photojournalist Mark Malijan; Kentucky freelancer Sam Adams; Suzanne Bohan, Bay Area News Group; and Terri Hansen, Indian Country Today and Mother Earth Journal.

As part of the fellowship, EJN will cover the Fellows’ travel, lodging and daily expenses, arrange press accreditation at COP16, and offer such support services as a series of specially designed activities that includes orientation, breakfast briefings, a field trip and a media clinic.

The program is part of the Climate Change Media Partnership, in which EJN has brought journalists from developing countries to the annual UN climate summits the past three years.

The project is in cooperation with the Society of Environmental Journalists (SEJ).

This new program from EJN provides US journalists the same opportunity to cover the summit for their home media organizations, and to work with experienced and knowledgeable journalists from around the world, while gaining a multifaceted understanding of climate change’s global impact and reach.

The Earth Journalism Network is a project of Internews and a longtime partner of the Society of Environmental Journalists.

Internews Network and Internews Europe developed EJN to empower and enable journalists from developing countries to cover the environment more effectively. EJN establishes networks of environmental journalists in countries where they don’t exist, and builds their capacity where they do, through training workshops and fellowship programs, the development of briefing materials and online tools, support for production and distribution, and the provision of small grants.

Founded in 1990, the Society of Environmental Journalists is the world’s oldest and largest membership association of individual journalists, educators and students dedicated to producing more and better news coverage of environmental issues. SEJ, with some 1,500 members works to strengthen the quality, visibility and reach of environmental journalism across all media to advance public understanding of environmental issues.

Mother Earth Journal is a news project of environmental journalist Terri Hansen. Why don’t you follow Terri on Twitter? She’s on Facebook too.

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