Name: Climate and environmental journalism under fire
Start: 2024-05-23T15:45:00+0200
End: 2024-05-23T17:00:00+0200

The 2024 IPI World Congress and Media Innovation Festival will gather leading journalists, editors, and publishers from around the world in Sarajevo from May 22 to 24, 2024. Under the theme “Navigating Crises: Journalism at a Turning Point”, this event will provide a vital space for media professionals, thought leaders, and innovators to explore new solutions, foster understanding, and critically examine the role of the media in addressing the great crises of our time.

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Organized by the International Press Institute (IPI).

Climate and environmental journalism under fire

Environmental reporting has never been more important – or more dangerous. We’ll discuss how to protect climate and environmental reporters under attack, and make sure the stories we need don’t get buried.

Moderators

Scott Griffen

Deputy Director, IPI

Scott Griffen is deputy director at the International Press Institute (IPI), a global network of editors, publishers and journalists defending press freedom since 1950. He is the author of numerous IPI reports on diverse topics related to press freedom and independent journalism and... Read More →

Speakers

Bukola Adebayo

West Africa correspondent, Thomson Reuters Foundation/Context newsroom

Bukola Adebayo is the West Africa correspondent for the Thomson Reuters Foundation/Context newsroom and a 2024 Rainforest Investigations Fellow at the Pulitzer Center. She has reported on climate change, health, gender, environment and politics across several African countries for media outlets, including CNN.She has taught at the Harvard Division of Continuing Education and is a 2021 Nieman Fellow at Harvard University... Read More →

Alena Besirevic

Founder and Investigative journalist, Naratorium

Alena Beširević is an investigative journalist focused on energy transition and the environment at Naratorium and fact-checker and researcher at Raskrinkavanje.She is a co-founder of Naratorium, a website focused on environmental reporting. Previously Beširević worked for Oslobođenje... Read More →

Özgür Gürbüz

Journalist and writer

Özgür Gürbüz has been writing on environmental, economic and energy issues since 1994. Gürbüz has worked for several major newspapers and magazines in Turkey and is currently a columnist for BirGün daily newspaper and part of the editorial board of Magma magazine. He has also... Read More →

Teresa Ribeiro

Representative on Freedom of the Media, OSCE

Teresa Ribeiro, of Portugal, is the fifth Representative on Freedom of the Media. She has vast political, diplomatic, human rights and media experience.Prior to this position, she was Secretary of State of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Portugal... Read More →

Santiago Sáez

Director of Training, Covering Climate Now

Santiago Sáez is a climate journalist. He currently serves as Director of Training at Covering Climate Now, a global collaboration of hundreds of newsrooms committed to help journalists worldwide covering the climate crisis. He helped create Climática, the first professional climate... Read More →

Thursday May 23, 2024 15:45 - 17:00 CEST
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2024 IPI World Congress and Media Innovation Festival

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