Oxford Climate Journalism Network
Weekly roundup and update - 11th May, 2022

Hola hola,

I'm writing today from Costa Rica, where the rainy season is raging on. Let me tell you, I missed tropical thunderstorms.

It was from San Jose that I joined this week's seminar on climate finance with Lorena González. The recording and slides for that session are already on Circle, and so is last week's climate and gender workshop with Joan.

Finally, I am taking a two week holiday here between May 30th and June 10th. If you need anything then, Katherine will be here to help. 

Here's what coming ahead.

🌵 Nature Based Solutions 101. Our next member-lead workshop is this Thursday, From her experience in Mongabay India and other outlets, Sahana will share with us how to run evidence-based reporting on nature-based solutions. | Join the event here

🌿 A new fireside chat: nature and climate. Lena suggested having a fireside chat, our first one in weeks, on nature and climate. It will run next Monday 30th, at 14:00 UK time. With Lena's background in biology and following Sahana's session on Nature based solutions the week before, this would be a great moment to share how we are connecting the biodiversity and climate stories | Join the event here

WHAT'S HAPPENING ON CIRCLE?

• Rosi shared this opportunity for EU journalists to attend a conference in Brussels. Katherine will be presenting there and that's Gian Paolo's hometown, so make sure to apply before May 30th. 
• Jillian is looking for insight into the public opening session of the Antarctica Treaty meeting
• Katherine shared this really good story by one of Elisangela's colleagues at the TBIJ. Check it out!

📰 On doing innovation right. In a piece adapted from his recent speech to the Society of Editors, BBC journalist Ros Atkins lays out what he thinks news organisations need to do to meet the challenges of the future. “News is not a given in people’s lives. It can’t be assumed people will seek to learn about our world via journalism,” he says. The article includes seven tips for journalists and four for news organisations. | Read the piece

🖼️ On visual journalism. In our latest global journalism seminar, Jazmín Acuña, co-founder of Paraguayan outlet El Surtidor, talked us through her news site’s innovative use of graphics and visual storytelling to appeal to younger audiences, the ones they want to reach to foster social change. “No topic should be boring to audiences and serious coverage can be done with memes, graphics and images,” she said. | Read a summary and watch the video of her talk

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Today's email was written by Diego Arguedas Ortiz.