Stories and Articles About Our Work

With overfishing a major problem around the world, Internews’ Earth Journalism Network (EJN) in recent months has carried out a series of activities in both Asia and Europe to work with journalists on improving their coverage of sustainable fisheries issues and ocean health. Read more »

I have found that activists, advocates and even policy-makers complain that the mass media ignores ‘their issue’. The general charge is the media’s lack of commitment to social issues and its focus on sensational and juicy stories.  What people often ignore is that the media, just like any other industry, follows its constituencies, and hence reports what it deems appropriate for its market. The media follows stories that are considered newsworthy and interesting for its readers. Issues that are deemed newsworthy have a much better chance of being picked up. Read more »

In 2007, Cherelle Jackson started publishing a three-part series of investigative reports that examined plans to develop tourism on an uninhabited island in her home country of Samoa. Read more »

A wide-ranging discussion of environmental science, corporate social responsibility, and journalism brought more than 30 reporters and domestic NGO leaders together in Shanghai in late March. Internews’ Earth Journalism Network also released a Chinese-language version of its popular Earth Journalism Toolkit at the workshop, which provides tips and resources for reporting and information-gathering on topics from nuclear power to forestry. (Access the toolkit in English). Read more »