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Fellowship For young environ­mental journalists

This program is important because it tackles the most pressing global issue of our lifetime – climate change – while offering opportunities for emerging journalists to build skills, develop networks across borders, and report from a community in the Nordic Region or Canada in a productive and sensitive way.
Lex Harvey, journalist and Fellowship Coordinator (2022)
Together with the Nordic Council of Ministers, Harbourfront Centre created the Nordic-Canadian Fellowship in Environmental Journalism, to give young aspiring journalists from Canada and the Nordic Region the space, time, and resources to investigate the climate crisis. 
The participating fellows travelled to Attu, Greenland, to Old Crow, Yukon, and many places in between – to tell stories about the perils of fast fashion, about Iceland’s efforts to replant its lost forests, about one Sami community’s resistance to a mining proposal on their land, and more. 
They had access to professional mentors and learned journalism fundamentals – from feature writing to podcasting to video storytelling – and engaged with some of the most important questions at the feet of journalists and policymakers today.
In preparation for the reporting trips a boot camp in Norway equipped the fellows with a deeper understanding of best practices when reporting in the field as well as how to decipher misinformation to ensure climate reporting remains fact-based. 
I've learned more about cultural simi­larities and differences between Canada and the Nordic region, and the power of both learning and reporting collabo­ra­tively with each other. 
– Meral Jamal, journalist and fellow (2022)

Dispatches from the climate frontier

An exhibition featuring the work of the journalistic fellows was at display at Harbourfront Centre, and was followed by the launch of the anthology Dispatches – Stories of Hope, Resilience, and Change.
Common to the stories told by the young journalists is the aim to engage with people and communities affected by climate change and tell their stories eye to eye, in their own voice.
We learned about how we detect misinfor­mation, malformation and disinformation.
– Sara Tingström, journalist and fellow (2022)
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FOR MORE INFORMATION, CHECK OUT:
Dispatches: Stories of Hope, Resilience and Change
from the Nordic-Canadian Fellows in Environmental Journalism
Reflections from Attu, photo from the Dispatches exhibition at Harbourfront Centre in Toronto.
Photo by Diellza Murtezaj and Meral Jamal.
Nordic Council of Ministers / norden.org/nordicbridges