DEADLINE: Climate Beacon Newsroom Initiative

The Solutions Journalism Network and the Indigenous Journalists Association have partnered to build a cohort of five U.S.-based, Indigenous-led, and -serving newsrooms to receive 12 months of training and mentorship in covering climate topics through a solutions lens. Together, these newsrooms will work individually and collectively to transform their coverage of the climate crisis to highlight and explore solutions within their communities.

Solutions journalism investigates and explains, in a critical and clear-eyed way, how people try to solve widely shared problems. While journalists usually define news as “what’s gone wrong,” solutions journalism expands that definition and covers responses to problems that are also newsworthy. 

The Climate Beacon Newsroom Initiative

In partnership with IJA, the CBNI program is designed to empower local and small to mid-sized IJA member newsrooms in producing impactful climate solutions reporting. The initiative is structured to provide comprehensive support, from orientation and goal setting to project implementation and refinement, that will lead to key takeaways and insights to be shared broadly with the IJA and SJN networks. The initiative will culminate in an in-person gathering at the Indigenous Media Conference (IMC) in Portland, Oregon, July 22-24, 2026.

All members of a newsroom are welcome to participate. Because we know transformative change is led by the leaders of an organization and those who practice the work, we encourage newsrooms to include both editors and reporters when possible.

Deadline: Aug 31, 2025

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