EJN Virtual Media Workshop on Mining, Environment and Human Rights Reporting in Africa 2026 – YOA

Deadline: September 6, 2026

Applications are open for the EJN Virtual Media Workshop on Mining, Environment and Human Rights Reporting in Africa 2026. Internews’ Earth Journalism Network (EJN) is internet hosting a 3-day digital media workshop from November 3-5, 2026, to strengthen the capacities of journalists in 4 African international locations—Ghana, Uganda, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and South Africa—to report on points associated to mining, the surroundings and human rights.

It is anticipated that by the top of the workshop, members may have: 

• Gained a greater understanding of the environmental impacts and potential implications of various kinds of mining (together with artisanal, small-scale, and massive-scale industrial mining, in addition to authorized mining versus unlawful mining);
• Increased information concerning water, soil and air contamination – together with an improved understanding of the science behind mining-associated contamination, and easy methods to go about discovering and analyzing information for tales;
• Learned about land rights, group displacement and free, prior and knowledgeable consent (FPIC);
• Reviewed potential threats and danger mitigation methods for guaranteeing bodily security and digital safety whereas reporting on probably delicate points, from mining websites and inside battle-affected areas;
• Learned about investigative instruments and methods for overlaying extractive industries.

The workshop periods can be structured as part-presentation and part-discussion. Journalists will study from researchers, environmental scientists, mining legislation specialists, human rights advocates, civil society organizations and native communities working on the intersection of mining, surroundings and human rights in Africa.

Benefits

• To guarantee these workshops are accessible, EJN will provide a restricted variety of communications stipends to these with an unstable web connection in distant areas. 
• Participants who attend all periods will obtain a certificates of completion from EJN and can even obtain particular consideration ought to they select to apply for a narrative grant to supply journalistic content material following the workshop.

Eligibility

• Applicants might be from Ghana, Uganda, DRC or South Africa.
• For the needs of this coaching OPPORTUNITY, they may solely be accepting purposes in English and French. Unfortunately, they don’t have the capability to think about purposes in some other languages presently. Applicants will need to have a working understanding of English or French to take part in and totally profit from the workshop.
• Applications are open to journalists working in any medium (on-line, print, tv, radio) in addition to social media content material creators with expertise overlaying mining, environmental and/or human rights points.
• They welcome purposes from freelance reporters and employees from all varieties of media organizations – group-based mostly, native, nationwide and worldwide. They particularly encourage girls, rural, Indigenous and early-profession journalists to apply.
• Applicants are required to be clear about using generative AI instruments, if any, to revise their proposals. EJN reserves the correct to disqualify candidates from consideration if they’ve been discovered to have engaged in unethical or improper skilled conduct, together with, however not restricted to, submitting AI-generated content material as their very own.

Application

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For extra data, go to EJN Virtual Media Workshop.