How can we make climate training effective and engaging for a sceptical newsroom?
Thu 10 April 2025
16:00 - 16:50
Free
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As AI-fueled disinformation and news avoidance rises in Europe and elsewhere, newsrooms need to stand strong against climate and science deniers populating top levels of government, as well as learn how to meet their audiences where they are.
In this panel, hear best practices and takeaways from experiences training generalists on climate and science topics in small and large news teams. The case studies discussed in this panel target journalists from all beats, not just specialised reporters, including journalists who may not have previously been interested in climate or science topics.
You will hear how Covering Climate Now helped train local TV stations in southeastern conservative US states on climate change, how France Télévisions brought hundreds of its journalists and editors to a 2-day mandatory training with scientists, how CBC is expanding its science and climate training to its regional reporters, and how Agence France-Presse has trained hundreds of general news journalists and fact-checkers on greenwashing.
Moderated by Ivan Couronne.
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Festival Internazionale del Giornalismo
Il Festival Internazionale del Giornalismo di Perugia è un evento annuale che riunisce professionisti dei media, esperti di comunicazione e appassionati di informazione da tutto il mondo. Si svolge nel centro storico di Perugia e offre conferenze, dibattiti, workshop e opportunità di networking sui temi più rilevanti del giornalismo contemporaneo.
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Audrey Cerdan
Audrey Cerdan is the Climate Editor of public service broadcaster France Télévisions. Previously, she worked as a reporter for Rue89 and Le Nouvel Obs. In 2020, she joined public service news website Franceinfo as an editor-in-chief. In 2022, she worked with the French non-profit Expertises Climat, a network of climate scientists for stronger media coverage of the climate crisis. Early in 2023, Cerdan joined France Télévisions to design and launch the new daily “Journal Météo-Climat”: an evolution of traditional weather forecast towards a program that puts the everyday weather coverage in the context of a changing climate — a transformation that was welcomed by the audience. She has since been appointed Climate and Environment Editor for the public service broadcaster’s news branch, with a broader role across the newsroom. In 2024, she was named Journalist of the Year by the American organization Covering Climate Now.
Ivan Couronne
Ivan Couronne is the ""Future of the Planet"" global editor at Agence France-Presse in Paris. He reports to AFP's Global Editor-in-Chief and oversees climate coverage for AFP's 1,700 journalists worldwide, who produce text, data, photo and video news content in six languages. Working with AFP's business, environmental and general news reporters, he is in charge of unifying coverage of the causes and impacts of climate change, of the energy transition, and of the responses to the climate crisis. Additionally, Ivan coordinates coverage of major environmental events such as COPs and supervises AFP's climate training program for the global newsroom. Previously, he spent ten years at AFP's bureau in Washington, DC, where he worked as a video journalist, US Congress and politics correspondent, and science, space, and environment correspondent.
Mark Hertsgaard
Mark Hertsgaard is the co-founder and executive director of the global media collaboration Covering Climate Now and the environment correspondent for The Nation. He has covered climate change since 1989, reporting from 25 countries in his books Earth Odyssey and HOT and for outlets including The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, The Atlantic, Bloomberg Businessweek, Time, Scientific American, The Guardian, L’espresso, Newsweek Japan, NPR and the BBC. He has been a commentator for the public radio programs Morning Edition, Marketplace and Living on Earth and appeared on the Today show, Morning Joe, Fresh Air, All Things Considered, Democracy Now!, and hundreds of similar programs overseas. His other books include On Bended Knee: The Press and the Reagan Presidency and Big Red’s Mercy: The Shooting of Deborah Cotton and A Story of Race in America.