Announcing Inagural Cohort of Dart Center Europe Climate Reporting Workshop

The 2024 Climate Reporting Workshop, taking place from October 9-12, 2024, will bring together journalists and editors from across Europe, all of whom are dedicated to covering the global environmental crisis. It is a unique opportunity to engage with experts and to participate in a peer-to-peer knowledge exchange to gain deeper insights into the ethical, professional, and emotional challenges that arise from reporting on climate change and its impacts.

“Dart Centre Europe is proud to host such an impressive cohort of climate and environmental journalists for our first climate related programme.  They come with an incredible range of experience and individual specialisms such as science, investigations and disinformation and all of them share a deep interest in exploring the ethical and psychological impact of climate reporting.” - Juliana Ruhfus, Director, Dart Centre Europe 

Topics will include managing trauma, navigating ethical dilemmas, and addressing new and evolving craft challenges posed by the climate crisis. They will be explored in seminars, workshops and discussions with leading experts, psychologists, and fellow journalists

Dart Centre Europe is grateful to the Journalism Department of City University London for hosting the programme. 

The 2024 Climate Reporting Workshop participants are:

Alice Facchini is an Italian freelance journalist specialised in environment, social and gender issues. She has reported from different countries around the world including Colombia, Ecuador, Chile, Jordan, and Guinea Bissau, investigating the destruction of natural ecosystems and how standards of living conditions in developing countries has changed. Her work has appeared in The Guardian, Internazionale, Repubblica, IRPI – Investigative Reporting Project Italy. In 2022 she won the European Press Prize – Innovation Awards for the collaborative journalism international investigation Cities for rent.

Aline Flor is a journalist at Público (Portugal) on the climate and environment desk ("Azul"), with a background in human rights and gender equality. She regularly covers public policy, international negotiations, and climate justice pathways. Aline's interest in civic and democratic participation, as well as regular coverage of the European Green Deal, led her to focus on climate action and climate justice before joining the climate desk. She has a bachelor's degree in journalism, a master's in documentary film and a postgraduate degree in human rights.

Eternity Uwaifo was awarded the City University student place for the workshop and is currently pursuing an MA in Broadcast Journalism.  She graduated with First-Class Honours in Journalism from Robert Gordon University where she was named Valedictorian.  With strong multimedia skills, Eternity has reporterted for British and international audiences on various media platforms. She has worked on climate change related issues for the BBC, Carbon Brief and DC Thomson and created digital content for Scotland's first environmental films festival, LandSea. 

Fermín Grodira is a fact-checker and science and climate journalist at the non-profit Maldita.es. He has a degree in Biology and a Master's degree in Science Communication and a second Master's degree in Investigative Journalism, Data and Visualisation. He has won a Mobile Journalism Award granted by the Agencia EFE. He is interested in social change, history, culture, politics, trains, cycling, technology, literature and languages. He speaks Spanish, English and French (and some Portuguese) as he is learning Farsi.

Giulio Rubino is an investigative journalist and co-founder of Irpi, an Italian centre for investigative journalism part of the Global Investigative Journalism Network and OCCRP. Since 2022, he has been co-director of IrpiMedia, an independent, non-profit transnational investigative journalism publication, as well as a lecturer in investigative journalism at the Basso Foundation School of Journalism in Rome. He mainly deals with organised crime and drug trafficking, as well as corruption and financial crimes, topics he has covered in numerous transnational investigations published worldwide.

Isabella Kaminski is a freelance journalist specialising in the environment and climate change. She was deputy editor of The ENDS Report for several years and as a freelancer has written for the Guardian, BBC, Independent, Al Jazeera, Climate Home News, DeSmog, Undark, Hakai and others. She has a particular interest in climate litigation, and writes a newsletter on the subject called The Wave.

Jhesset Thrina Enano is an independent multimedia journalist and educator from Manila, Philippines. Her reporting work examines the intersections of climate change and environmental issues with human rights, policy, gender, and culture. Her text and visual work have been published in The Washington Post, National Geographic, Mongabay, Rest of World, Philippine Daily Inquirer, and Rappler. In 2022, she was a finalist in the Emerging Journalist category of the Covering Climate Now Journalism Awards. She is currently studying MSc Climate Change: Environment, Science and Policy at King's College London as a Chevening scholar.

Katarina ("Katya") Zimmer is a freelance science and environment journalist based in Berlin, Germany. She is currently a special contributor to the US-based publication Knowable Magazine, where she covers planetary health and the energy transition. Her work has also appeared in The Atlantic, BBC, National Geographic, Undark, Scientific American, Nautilus Magazine, Grist, and elsewhere.

Lucia Torres is the Video Manager at Mongabay, a non-profit online news platform covering environmental and conservation all over the globe. After graduating as a biologist from the University of Bordeaux, she obtained a master's degree in science journalism from the University of Carlos III in Madrid. Board member of the Spanish Association of Science Communication and the European Union of Science Journalists Associations. Her specialty is new digital narratives and her passion is the intersection between science, nature and human rights. She currently lives in Madrid with her cat Bimba.

Natalie Hanman is the Guardian's head of environment and assistant editor. She manages a team of more than a dozen editors and reporters based around the world, who cover all aspects of the environment, including the climate and nature crisis, and issues of climate justice. Her team works closely with the Guardian's foreign correspondents and other specialists across the newsroom. As assistant editor, Natalie is part of the senior leadership team, advising on editorial strategy and workplace culture. Prior to these roles, Natalie was the Guardian's membership editor and opinion editor. She lives in London.

Niklas Franzen is a German journalist who studied Political Science and Latin American Studies in Göttingen, Berlin, and São Paulo, Brazil. After working as an editor for a daily newspaper in Berlin he is now freelancing for various German and Brazilian newspapers and magazines including Spiegel Online, taz, Republik, and O Globo. He has produced radio features for Deutschlandfunk, and in May 2022, published a book about the far-right government of Jair Bolsonaro, titled Brazil Above All: Bolsonaro and the Right-Wing Revolt. In Brazil Nick also began covering environmental and climate issues, as well as the involvement of foreign companies, visiting the Amazon several times, most recently in February 2024, when he accompanied an indigenous fire brigade that fights the massive fires that ravage the region every year.

Sarah Nedjar is a journalist and videographer for the digital section of Le Monde, France's most widely read national daily newspaper. Of Franco-Algerian descent, she focuses on African news, particularly covering major political and socio-environmental issues on the continent, aimed at a young, connected audience. Prior to this, she served as a correspondent in the United States for France Télévisions and as a roving reporter for the local stations of the Radio France group. Alongside her journalism work, Sarah is a strong advocate for diversity in the media and volunteers as a mentor with an organisation that helps young people from underprivileged backgrounds achieve their professional goals.

Simone Fant is a freelance journalist based in Milan. He covers climate, environment and circular economy with in-depth features and investigation for several media outlets. He writes and hosts the weekly podcast "5 Circular News" for Renewable Matter. 3 times grantee of the Journalism Fund Europe's investigative program, he won the Fenice CONAI award for young environmental journalism in 2022.

Viola Funk is a journalist and podcast producer from Germany. Currently, she is the director of the Berlin-based podcast studio ACB Stories where she produces documentary series and news content for public broadcasters and audio platforms. The portfolio primarily focuses on socio-political topics such as racism, migration, and extremism. In recent years, Viola's reporting has centred on migration and the EU borders. She was awarded the prestigious German Grimme Award for her work on 190220, a series documenting the racist terror attack in Hanau and the affected families' fight for justice. Her most recent project is Springerstiefel, a podcast series exploring racism in East Germany and examines why young people are drawn to right-wing extremism.