Finding and Telling Climate Change Stories – A Fresh Approach

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Webinar 
September 23rd 2021, 11.00-12.30 (CEST)

Climate Change is the biggest story you’ll ever cover. But how well equipped do you feel to report it? How easy is it to find new stories and make them relevant to your audience?

CIRCOM run this free session on finding and telling climate change stories just a few weeks prior to the COP 26,  the UN Climate Change conference being described as the world’s ‘last best chance’ to save the planet.

Hosted by working journalists from the Solutions Journalism Network, this online workshop focused not only on the problems of climate change, but on how people respond to those problems. Solutions stories outperform problem-focused news. And research shows audiences find them more interesting, trustworthy and uplifting.
The workshop was aimed for journalists, editors or producers working at a news or current affairs outlet and with need of a fresh way of looking at climate change stories


Webinar hosts


sophie rolandSophie Roland is an independent filmmaker based in Paris. She is a certified trainer and 2021 LEDE Fellow at the Solutions Journalism Network, an American not-for- profit organization which trains journalists in reporting on societies’ responses to social problems. She is currently working on a solutions-based documentary series on climate change. For more than 20 years she worked for the French National Public TV Broadcaster, France Televisions. In 2017, she won a prize at The Deauville Green Awards International Film Festival for her investigation "Endocrine Disruptors, Our Lives Poisoned."

 

 

 

charlotte hornCharlotte Horn is a radio reporter for Northern German Public Broadcasting, NDR, based in Hamburg. She is a certified trainer with the Solutions Journalism Network and has spent time with the ‘People Fixing the World’ team at the BBC World Service in London. This is the first BBC programme dedicated to solutions focused journalism. Charlotte also gained expertise in solutions journalism with the NDR podcast “Perspektiven”. A passionate traveller, Charlotte has reported from various countries including Ghana, Israel, and the South Pacific.