DEADLINE: Extreme Heat Reporting Training in West Africa

Join Climate Resilience for All for a three-day in-person training course in Accra, Ghana on February 10-12, 2025, designed to improve your reporting on the impacts of extreme heat, giving you new sources, story angles and ideas on how to cover the mounting impacts of this climate threat. The practical and interactive course will help you integrate heat stories within your regular reporting beat, and offer guidance on rethinking heat visuals.

The free course, led by experienced climate change journalists and heat experts, is open to English-speaking staff and freelance journalists based in Nigeria, Ghana, Sierra Leone, Liberia and The Gambia. Applicants must have at least one year of reporting experience. Please fill out the application by January 6, 2025; journalists accepted will be notified by Jan. 10.

Travel to the training city, accommodation, and meals during the training will be offered to journalists selected.