Vacancy: Three-week summer journalism internship at Carbon Brief
Why this matters: environmental and climate reporting with long-term consequences.
Carbon Brief is offering an exciting opportunity for students, or recent graduates, to work with the team for three weeks this summer. This journalism internship will be paid the London Living Wage, with an additional travel bursary. Job description Carbon Brief’s award-winning journalism and analysis is respected by scientists, journalists, policymakers and campaigners around the world. We write articles and create data visualisations, infographics and videos to explain the latest climate science and related policy issues. You’ll spend time shadowing members of staff and helping out with the different tasks carried out by each part of the team. This includes journalists working on topics ranging from climate science through to China’s emissions, as well as specialists working on visuals and social media. If you’re interested in whether carbon offsets are a viable climate solution, or how climate change is driving human migration, then this is the placement for you. .innerArt>ol { font-family: 'PT Serif'; font-size: 18px !important; } What you will do Have the opportunity to research, write and publish an article for Carbon Brief. Promote your article using visuals and social media. Assist with the research and writing of Carbon Brief’s award-winning newsletters. Help decide how Carbon Brief covers the latest developments in climate change, by helping to find stories in scientific papers and policy documents. Create and discuss content for social media. What you will learn Experience how a small, independent but global journalism team works in practice. See how Carbon Brief puts together articles step by step. Learn how we interrogate news, data and reports. Pick up skills on how to make best use of visuals in your journalism. Your skills Interest in climate change. Some experience of writing on a technical topic for a general audience, which can include self-publishing. Interest in journalism and a commitment to the integrity of journalism. Competency in word proce