Green Echoes #61: Dirty Data Study Session on Friday + Opportunities and More
Our stories, a round-up of opportunities, and more.
Welcome to Green Echoes, a newsletter from the Environmental Reporting Collective that highlights key investigative stories, data sources, funding, reporting and training opportunities and our projects from across Asia.
I’m Nithin Coca, a Japan-based freelance journalist, and the curator of this newsletter.
Our next Study Session: In the Dark: Data Center Spillover in Asia
This Friday: Join us for the second Dirty Data Study Group, where reporters share what they found on the ground: water competition, grid pressure, and the regional fallout of a race to build out AI infrastructure.
Join to learn from journalists on the ground in Taiwan, Singapore, and Malaysia about their reporting and the worrying pattern in all three places; communities bearing costs they weren’t consulted about.
📆 Time: July 17th 15:00 (GMT+8)
✍🏽 Register here (and please share with your network)
This is part of our most recent global collaborative investigation on data centers, which involved over 40 reporters, photographers, editors, and designers — from Thailand, Singapore, Indonesia, India, China, Taiwan, Peru, Brazil, Spain and France. If you haven’t yet, read it here.
Opportunities and Resources
Earth Journalism Network is accepting applications for Story Grants to Report on Asia’s Endangered Apes. It’s open to journalists from Cambodia, China, India, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam (Deadline 19 July)
Also from EJN: Media Grants to Support Coverage of Countries’ Progress Toward the 30x30 Marine Conservation Target (deadline 10 August)
The Pulitzer Center is accepting applications for its Work/Environment Reporting Grants, focusing on the intersection between labor and climate (no deadline)
ABC Australia has a great opportunity – Future Voices Program, which is open to journalists and emerging media leaders from across Southeast Asia. It’s a a leadership and professional development program for early to mid-career media professionals.
Reminder: The next deadline for JournalismFund Europe’s environmental investigative grants is August 6th. Apply here.
Join the ERC Slack community to meet and engage with fellow journalists and for more grants and other opportunities.
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