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Diego Arguedas Ortiz on our Oxford Climate Journalism Network in 2024-25
A piece by the Associate Director of our Oxford Climate Journalism Network, originally published in the Reuters Institute's Annual Report
Mitali Mukherjee, Sharon Chen, Jhesset O. Enano, Diego Arguedas Ortiz and Dr Anthony Feinstein at our event on mental health and climate journalism. Credit: Greg Cochrane
From our Annual Report 2024-25
This year saw the biggest change to the Oxford Climate Journalism Network since its launch, with the creation of a new alumni programme. We also developed new initiatives on mental health and leadership, and deepened our work with reporters and editors.
New alumni programme
Launched in January 2025, the programme offers two monthly curated meetings for specific groups and a newsletter every fortnight to keep everyone up-to-date. This is the first time our growing community of alumni (700 members-strong by mid-2025) has had a programme tailored to their needs. Highlights have included spending time with former UN Climate Chief Christiana Figueres, and sessions with the COP30 President and with leading climate finance expert Avinash Persaud. We pioneered ‘Show and Tell’ sessions in which alumni share their wins – from newsroom strategies shaped by their time at the network to climate photojournalism and how to fund climate stories.
New cohorts in 2025
Two new cohorts of 100 editors and reporters joined us in our January and July 2025 intakes, growing our community to 800 journalists from over 120 countries that have taken our programme. As always, we balance rich expert seminars with intimate settings that provide member-to-member engagement. This year we launched new ‘core group’ meetings: groups of 10–12 members that met monthly and developed a rapport, a feature widely praised in cohort feedback. Highlights include sessions with David Obura, head of IPBES; Mavis Owusu-Gyamfi, President of African Center for Economic Transformation; and Ivan Couronne, AFP Future of the Planet global editor.
Leadership
From 18 to 20 September, we held a course for newsroom leaders titled ‘Leading Newsrooms in an Extreme Weather World’, in collaboration with the Stanley Centre for Peace and Security. The programme brought together 11 newsroom leaders from European media to discuss how their organisations are preparing to cover climate change.
New initiatives
This last year we partnered with Dr Anthony Feinstein from the University of Toronto, a global expert in psychological trauma in journalists. With our support, his team surveyed 268 journalists from 90 countries (all OCJN alumni) in a first-of-its-kind study into the impact of climate change reporting on journalists’ mental well-being. This was the first time that data were collected and analysed on the mental health of climate journalists. In May, we hosted him at the Reuters Institute to present the preliminary findings from his OCJN-supported research.
Spreading the word
Our work to raise the profile of climate journalism has continued, including an invitation to deliver a lecture on climate journalism at TED Countdown, partnering with UNESCO for the climate-themed 2025 World Radio Day, and twice taking over the Reuters Institute main newsletter.
Research
This January we published the results of our third survey into climate news consumption in eight key markets, and we held an event in Oxford to present the findings to the media and the academic community.
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