Call for Applications: Dart Center Europe’s Workshop for Climate Journalists

This unique programme is for practising journalists with a minimum of two years specialising in climate and environmental reporting. Accepted applicants will help craft strategies for building the resilience of journalists covering this global crisis.

The two and a half day Workshop on 3-5 July, 2024 in London will bring together a cohort of up to 15 journalists with a faculty of experienced researchers and clinical psychologists, providing opportunities for the exchange of ideas, knowledge sharing and peer-learning.

This Workshop is the first step in a conversation aimed at more clearly understanding the emotional and psychological effects of covering the climate crisis and environment. Through briefings, facilitated sessions and group discussion, this Workshop aims to deepen knowledge of emotional trauma and psychological injury and examine ethics and craft challenges.

Accepted applicants are invited to cohort dinners the night of 3rd and 4th of July 2024.

Lunch and refreshments will be provided throughout the workshop.

To encourage applications from the European continent they are offering two £900 travel/accommodation bursaries to freelance journalists (if you are applying for the bursary please state this clearly at the start of your letter of interest).

All other applicants are expected to cover the cost of accommodation and travel to and from the workshop (or have it covered by their employers).

Eligibility Criteria

• Participation in the Workshop is free-of-charge to accepted applicants and open to practising journalists with at least two years of experience specialising in reporting on the climate and environmental issues in all formats (print, broadcast and digital reporters, photographers, editors and producers).
• All sessions are conducted in English. Participants must be fluent in spoken English.

For more information, visit DCE.