Since its inception in 2015, the Somali Media for Environment, Science, Health and Agriculture (SOMESHA) Green Journalism Awards have honored several professional journalists for their distinguished reporting on science topics and civic issues.
Terrorism, dictatorship, corruption and global warming contribute to an increase in migration leading to people fleeing their homelands. Among those refugees are many journalists. How does German journalism deal with this? The article below is about successful initiatives to integrate journalist refugees in Munich, Germany.
The Open Forum for Agricultural Biotechnology (OFAB), which has acted as a knowledge hub about biotechnology for journalists and members of the public in eight African countries, is celebrating its 10th anniversary this September.
As part of the celebrations, OFAB has partnered with the Uganda Science Journalists Association (USJA), the Uganda National Council for Science and Technology (UNCST) and the African Agricultural Technology Foundation (AATF) to recognize reporters who have excelled in reporting on biotechnology. Therefore, the partners will be organizing the OFAB Agricultural Journalism Award 2017.
The Society of Indonesian Science Journalists (SISJ) recently held the 1st face-to-face meeting of its science journalists mentoring program (Jakarta, 21-22 July 2017). The program, which is funded by The Sasakawa Peace Foundation from Japan and The British Council from UK, focuses on food reporting as its core.