Deadline: 22 April 2025
The taz Panter Foundation is pleased to announce its Green Panther Amazonia Program, a free-of-charge networking and training workshop focused on climate journalism for 10 journalists from 8 countries in the Amazon region from May 2025 to September 2025.
The workshop will enhance networking among journalists from the Amazon region as well as with German and European colleagues and representatives of science and civil society. It will strengthen the skills of the participants well as their insights on globally relevant debates about how to tackle the climate crisis. At the same time, the participants from Brazil and Latin America will share their specific knowledge with German experts and colleagues.
Topics
- CO2 certificate trading and its consequences
- Role of international companies in the Amazon
- Mental health for journalists
- Organized crime and environmental destruction
- Environmental racism
- Indigenous perspectives on climate crisis
Eligibility Criteria
- Journalists from all fields – print, TV, radio, online –, employed or freelance, can apply. Proof of experience in journalism is mandatory. It is advantageous if applicants work on environmental and climate protection issues. The workshop aims to reach journalists who have rarely had the chance to take part in international trainings.
- Journalists from the following 8 countries in the Amazon region are invited to apply:
- Brazil, Colombia, Peru, Ecuador, Bolivia, Venezuela, Suriname and Guyana.
- The workshop will be divided into two parts:
- An 8-session webinar series with journalists, experts from science and civil society representatives every two weeks from May to August/September 2025.
- A 7-day all-expense-paid workshop in Berlin in September 2025. Participants will have the opportunity to personally meet and exchange ideas with Germany-based actors from media, NGOs, science as well as activists and government agencies. And an eight-page supplement will be published in the newspaper taz with articles by the workshop participants.
Application Requirements
- Active participation is mandatory. All participants will receive compensation for their two journalistic contributions, which they will produce as a part of the workshop.
- The workshop will be held mainly in English. A good knowledge of English is therefore recommended.
- They strongly encourage applications from women and are committed to ensuring that at least half of the workshop participants are women. Additionally, they will prioritize applications from Indigenous and Black journalists to foster a diverse and inclusive group.
For more information, visit taz.
