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A five-day Reuters Foundation reporting workshop to help journalists identify, research and deliver clear, concise and accurate stories on climate change, on its impact on the environment and the lives of ordinary people and on what can be done to help them adapt. The course will be text-based – reports or scripts – and participants will investigate climate stories of relevance to the public and policy makers back home.


At the end of the workshop, participants should be able to:

  • Explain issues involved in environment stories
  • Link these issues to the lives of ordinary people in their country
  • Offer editors attractive story ideas that resonate with their readers, viewers or listeners
  • Investigate and explore third-country solutions to specific problems in their countries
  • Assemble a complex news story offering readers, listeners or viewers fresh insight
  • Offer newspaper or online editors, catchy headlines, short leads and context
  • Describe skills needed to investigate the background to a story using the Internet
  • Use the Internet to identify and contact new expert sources
  • Flag their stories on social media via Twitter
  • Increase the degree of accuracy in delivered reports
  • Build exclusive stories from news releases, speeches or interviews
  • Improve interviews, in both quantity and quality
  • Return to work with a story idea they can investigate and develop for broadcast or publication
  • Bring back a ready-made story for broadcast or publication


Eligibility

Senior journalists with at least three years’ experience and a passion for exploring and reporting on the world in which we live, whether for newspapers, online, radio, television or social media.

Applicants must be from East Asian countries, including those from Mainland China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Korea, Japan, and ASEAN countries.

Admission Deposit

HKD 4,000 by cheque (local) or USD 500.00 by bank draft (non-local) payable to “The Chinese University of Hong Kong”. The deposit will be refunded to participants after completion of the programme.

Tutorial cost and five days’ lunches are all covered. Welcome and farewell dinners and campus tour may also be arranged.

For non-local participants, six nights’ accommodation in Hong Kong will be paid by the organizers. (Check in: 27 April 2014; check out: 3 May 2014)

How to Apply

Please download the application form and submit it with samples of published work via email to reuterscom@cuhk.edu.hk or mail to School of Journalism and Communication, Humanities Building, New Asia College, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, Hong Kong.

Application Deadline: 9 March 2014
Application Form: ( WORD / PDF )

Applications will be processed on a rolling basis. Early applications are strongly encouraged. Places are limited.

Nick Phythian

Nick is a media training consultant based in Wales. He left Reuters at the end of 2003 after 22 years with the international news organisation.

Nick worked variously as a reporter, sub-editor and editor with management responsibilities in Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Asia. His specialty is political and general news; he covered the fall of the Iron Curtain in Eastern Europe, state visits (Reagan, Clinton, Pope John Paul) and a range of international summits and conferences (G8, CSCE, OAU) as a either correspondent or as part of specialist desks. He spent six years as Bureau Chief, West Africa, based in Abidjan, and four years as a chief sub-editor on the Reuters Middle East and Africa desk. His final post was Editor, Political and General News, Asia. Before joining Reuters, Nick worked for the French news agency AFP. He has fluent French.

Nick has worked with Thomson Reuters Foundation (TRF) on various training programmes, including several workshops for UNICEF around the world, training for American and Lebanese journalists in a partnership between the US-based Stanley Foundation and TRF, training the journalists at the Maghreb Arabe Presse (the Moroccan national news agency) and working on our project with the Revenue Watch Institute, helping Ghanaian and Ugandan journalists to better cover the extractives’ industry.

Veby Mega

Veby Mega is an environmental journalist who writes for the AlertNet Climate news service for Thomson Reuters Foundation. She specialises in environment, climate change and the impacts on humanitarian side, while mapping the background with climate finance, international diplomacy and energy issues attached. She was based in Indonesia and has co-write several international climate change journalism books and also an author for Columbia Journalism Review for Earth Journalism Network. By end of 2012, she moved to Hong Kong to be an associate editor for SUARA, an Indonesian language newspaper. She has degree in Japanese language, and communication science.


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