DEADLINE: The Climate Newsroom, CCNow

Learn about CCNow’s training program aimed at helping reporters, editors, newsroom managers, and digital journalists produce more robust climate coverage for online, social, radio, and print. 

Covering Climate Now is expanding its newsroom training initiatives to enhance climate coverage through local media across the US. The project, called The Climate Newsroom, builds on the success of The Climate Station local TV training program and our work with more than 500 media partners worldwide to offer free, customized training designed to help your outlet cover climate stories more effectively. 

The training program spans three one-hour Zoom sessions over three weeks, followed by six months of ongoing support and feedback, and it’s led by our global team, which already collaborates with a network of media organizations across the US.

Our three tailored sessions include: 

• Local Climate Stories That Matter: Explore Covering Climate Now’s three pillars of climate journalism, including solutions, to ensure the stories you cover resonate with your audience. Through practical examples across formats, media outlets, and social platforms, you’ll learn how to produce and report stories that matter to your community.

• How to Make the Climate Connection: Have you ever wondered how to tell if an extreme weather event is linked to climate change? In this session, you’ll learn the basics of attribution science and how to apply it to stories across any beat, using clear and accessible language for all audiences. 

• Climate Stories for Every Beat and Platform: This workshop explores how climate change affects everyday life — from extreme weather to health, jobs, the economy, and politics. Using examples from print, TV, radio, and social media, we’ll share practical tips to help you integrate these angles into your reporting. The session also includes tools to help you find experts and resources to strengthen your coverage and identify and debunk climate disinformation.

Apply here to join the spring cohort. Deadline: May 8, 2026.

For inquiries, please contact Elena González at elena[at]coveringclimatenow[dot]org or training[at]coveringclimatenow[dot]org.