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Media Formats in Climate Journalism

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About Course

By the end of this module, participants will be able to distinguish between key journalistic formats and understand which formats are best suited for different types of climate stories. They will be able to strategically choose formats based on topic, audience, and journalistic goals, and develop their own format decisions in a practical context.

What Will You Learn?

  • Distinguish between the key journalistic formats used in climate reporting — from news and feature to reportage, data journalism, podcast, and video.
  • Identify which format best fits a given climate topic (extreme weather, science, policy, long-term change, technology, justice).
  • Analyse real-world, award-winning examples of strong format choices and explain why they work.
  • Apply a structured framework (story type, goal, audience, format) to justify a format decision for a climate story.
  • Recognise common format-selection mistakes, such as choosing out of habit or mismatching complexity to audience.

Course Content

Module Introduction

  • Introduction
  • Expected Learning Outcomes

Chapter 1: Understanding Journalistic Formats in Climate Reporting

Chapter 2: Matching Format to Climate Topics

Chapter 3: Applying Format Decisions in Practice

Conclusion & References

Final Test: Media Formats

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