Last month, The Jakarta Post requested Jody McPhillips and I to help them develop program plan on environmental journalism training workshop on climate change issues for the Post's journalists who will cover climate change conference in Bali. Here is I shared with you the program plan.
Program Plan
“The Jakarta Post” Environmental Journalism Training Workshop
22-23 November 2007
(For trainer and organizer only!)
Day 1 – 22 November 2007
Morning sessions 08.00 – 13.00 WIB
1. Opening ceremony:
-Welcoming speech from The Jakarta Post
-Explanation of the training workshop program
2. Introduction session:
-Trainers introduce themselves to participants
-Participants introduce themselves by telling their names, media, educational background, and their
expectation from the program
3. Introduction to environmental journalism (speaker: Harry Surjadi)
-what is environmental journalism
-what are the differences between environmental journalism and other journalisms
-what are the constrains in practicing environmental journalism
-Q and A
4. Global warming and climate change: science, facts, and realities (speaker: climate expert from university.
Participants have to write down jargons)
-the science of global warming and climate change: true or fiction
-facts and realities of global warming and climate change
-what should journalists know about facts and realities of global warming and climate change
-global warming and climate change according to IPCC and UNFCCC
-Q and A
Lunch at 13.00-14.00 WIB
Evening session 14.00-17.00 WIB
5. Global warming and climate change: mitigation, impact, adaptation in Indonesia
(Speaker: Emil Salim, head of Indonesia delegation to COP 13 UNFCCC/ MOP3
Kyoto Protocol. Participants have to write down jargons)
-the impact of global warming and climate change to Indonesia
-what does Indonesia do to mitigate and adapt to climate change
-what happen in COP 13 UNFCCC/MOP3 Kyoto Protocol
-the mission of Indonesian delegation to COP13 UNFCCC/MOP3 Kyoto Protocol
-Q and A
6. Global warming and climate change: CSO perspective (Speaker: CSO activist.
Participants have to write down jargons)
-how civil society organizations (CSO) explaining global warming and climate change
-CSO perspective on global warming/climate change mitigation in developed countries
-CSO activities in accordance to COP13 UNFCCC/MOP3 Kyoto Protocol
-Q and A
7. Climate change jargon and what stories to cover (Speaker: Harry Surjadi)
-participants separated into three groups
-participants discussing jargons they been written down from three speakers
-participants have to write down ideas what kind of stories they should produce related to global warming and
climate change
-groups present and share their results
Day 2 – 23 November 2007
Morning session 08.00-13.00
1. The important of observation for environmental journalists (Speaker: Harry Surjadi)
-using one of the ideas from previous session as an example to explain what is the important of
observation for environmental stories
-participants go out of the class to observe the surrounding
-going back to class to discuss what they see, hear, touch, taste
-what are the differences between facts and opinion. And what is truth
-back to the example, participants discuss what kind of facts, opinion, and truth they should get in the field
2. Story structure (Speaker: Jody McPhillips)
(Need breakdown pointers from Jody)
3. Descriptive writing (Speaker: Harry Surjadi)
-participants asked to read a descriptive environmental story
-the important of descriptive writing
-how to write descriptively
-using an object, participants asked to describe the object
-comments from participants and trainers on their works
-participants asked to go out of the class for five minutes to observe one spot, then back to the class to write
the spot descriptively
-comments from participants and trainers on their works
Lunch 13.00-14.00 WIB
Evening session 14.00-17.00 WIB
4. Writing in narrative form (Speaker: Jody)
(Need breakdown from Jody)
5. Covering international negotiation in the case of COP UNFCCC (Speaker: Harry Surjadi)
-what is UN convention or multilateral convention
-what will happen in Bali
-what should journalists prepare and do in covering Bali conference
-Q and A
6. Closing ceremony (The Jakarta Post)
-Closing speech from The Jakarta Post
-what next
-evaluation from participants, organizer, and trainers
(End)