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The Earth Journalism Network is a global media network that trains and funds journalists to report and inform the public on a variety of environmental issues. The organization focuses on environmental education, empowering local media, fostering media networks in underdeveloped countries, and geojournalism.

History and mission
The Earth Journalism Network was founded in 2004 by Internews, a nonprofit media organization. It was created to help provide training to expand media coverage of climate change in developing countries. Since its inception, EJN has provided more than 400 fellowships and trained over 8,000 journalists from many countries, including India, the Philippines, Nigeria, and Brazil. These journalists have produced over 12,000 stories in print, radio, TV, or online, and more than 10,000 journalists are registered as members of the organization's website. The network has provided funding to help journalists report on several major world climate change events, including the United Nation's annual Framework Convention on Climate Change and to help create climate data projects in Latin America, Africa, and Asia.

The organization’s mission is to “establish networks of environmental journalists in countries where they don’t exist, and build their capacity where they do”.

Leadership
James Fahn serves as executive director, with Sara Schonhardt as Content Officer and Orapin Kai Intasarn as Financial Manager.

Current Programs
The Earth Journalism Network's projects promote independent environmental journalism in 70+ countries. They fund grants and fellowships for local reporters and host workshops and information sessions to boost community knowledge of climate and environmental issues in the regions. Current projects receiving funding and support include:


 * Investigate Wildlife Tracking 
 * Partnered with Oxpeckers Investigative Environmental Journalism.
 * Asia-Pacific project 
 * Bay of Bengal Climate Resiliency Initiative 
 * With the Centre for Media Studies in New Delhi.
 * Biodiversity Media Initiative 
 * Partnered with the International Institute for Environment and Development and the International Union for Conservation of Nature.
 * Climate Change Media Partnership
 * With PANOS London and the International Institute for Environment and Development.
 * Ocean Media Initiative
 * Working with the Adessium Foundation.
 * Mesoamerican Reef Reporting Project
 * UC Berkeley Earth Journalism Scholars Program 
 * James Fahn, director of EJN, is also a professor at the UC Berkeley School of Journalism.



Partner Projects
EJN partners with several organizations to further development of geojournalism programs. Geojournalism is the practice of combining news stories and scientific data to form a more complete picture of a region or issue. It helps journalists and scientists to display and visualize data and news in more appealing and understandable ways.

Impact and awards
Professor Erich J. Sommerfeldt, Ph.D, from the University of Maryland, conducted a survey in 2013 to determine the impact of the Climate Change Media Partnership on the CCMP fellowship alumni. The results demonstrated that 78% of those surveyed strongly agreed the CCMP has been valuable to their career, with 94% strongly agreeing or agreeing the CCMP has made them a better journalist and 90% strongly agreed or agreed they are more aware about how to report on climate change. Additionally, the survey estimated that nearly 3,000 professional relationships were made as a result of the program.

Journalists' stories funded by EJN have been seen in a number of well-known publications, including The Guardian, Business-Standard, National Geographic, and Slate.

Murder of Hang Serei Oudom
In September 2012, the Earth Journalism Network and the Society of Environmental Journalists circulated a joint petition calling on the Cambodian government to launch a full investigation into the murder of environmental journalist Hang Serei Oudom. Oudom had been covering illegal logging activities for the local newspaper Vorakchun Khmer Daily when his body was discovered with several ax blows to the head. The New York Times’ Andrew Revkin called attention to this petition on his blog Dot Earth.