CBC N.L.'s Adam Walsh joins Oxford Climate Journalism Network

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How six months of clime alteration learning volition assistance reporting successful Newfoundland and Labrador.

How 6 months of clime alteration learning volition assistance reporting successful N.L.

Adam Walsh · CBC News

· Posted: Jul 13, 2025 4:30 PM EDT | Last Updated: 4 hours ago

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One of the truly astonishing parts astir being a writer is that you get to larn caller things astir each day.

On apical of that privilege, each truthful often an accidental comes on wherever you tin truly excavation into a subject.

In my case, I volition beryllium spending the adjacent six months learning astir clime alteration with the Oxford Climate Journalism Network, a programme of the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism astatine the University of Oxford.

I won't get to spell anywhere, the learning is virtual, but this happening is simply a summons to a satellite of cognition that is invaluable.

The constituent of the web is to bring unneurotic journalists from astir the satellite successful bid to amended the quality, knowing and interaction of clime coverage.

I americium portion of the eighth cohort of 100 journalists to bash this. In my radical determination are journalists and editors from 59 countries.

The programme brings successful satellite experts for america to larn from. We volition be virtual sessions connected everything from clime basics, to utmost upwind attribution, greenwashing, disinformation, concern and more.

Each of america brings a antithetic position and acquisition that we volition stock with 1 different truthful we tin amended connected connecting clime alteration to stories radical attraction about.

In a erstwhile cohort, a speech astir Egyptian mangoes being little tasty than earlier led folks to ask: what is your mango? What is thing successful your state oregon portion that everyone cares astir but is being impacted by clime change?

So for us, what's our mango successful Newfoundland and Labrador? And however is clime alteration affecting it? And however is clime alteration affecting different things we attraction astir present and successful our portion and country?

WATCH | Adam Walsh speaks astir the task with Here and Now's Carolyn Stokes:

100 journalists from astir the satellite are improving clime sum — including the CBC’s Adam Walsh

Adam Walsh, big of CBC Radio’s The Signal, is 1 of 100 journalists from astir the satellite selected to instrumentality portion successful Oxford University’s Climate Journalism Program astatine the Reuters Institute. It’s a programme that supports a planetary assemblage of reporters and editors crossed beats and platforms to amended the quality, knowing and interaction of clime sum astir the world. He spoke astir the task with the CBC’s Carolyn Stokes.

These are large questions for the commencement of my travel with the OCJN.

I volition be these sessions and larn from my colleagues arsenic I proceed to big and nutrient The Signal for CBC Radio.

My amusement takes 1 taxable a time and dives into it with the volition of connecting communities, gathering empathy and learning astir the satellite astir us.

Guests connected the amusement tin beryllium experts, politicians, assemblage leaders, folks with lived acquisition and radical who are passionate astir a fixed taxable oregon issue.

We regularly screen clime alteration connected The Signal.

But it's clip to up our game.

We tin person better, much thoughtful conversations astir clime change, its impacts connected america and what we tin bash astir it.

As I learn, my CBC colleagues volition larn with me, and my anticipation is that truthful volition you.

Let's instrumentality this travel together.

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