For Fatima Arkin, reporting on climate change is not about headline-grabbing stories, but about untangling its complex impacts. As the eyes of the world focus on the COP26 conference in Glasgow, this is a message she wants journalists in the West to hear. “It’s not just the story we tell but how we tell the [...]
Ugochi Anyaka Oluigbo understands the devasting impact of climate change better than most. Growing up in in Imo State, Nigeria, she witnessed first-hand how erosion of the local landscape swallowed up her neighbourhood’s homes and farmland, cut off communities and threatened livelihoods. Today she’s one of Africa’s leading environmental journalists and has made it her [...]
Environmental Journalist Erica Gies has seen the impact that rapid climate change has made on peoples’ lives. She grew up in California and now makes British Columbia her home and has witnessed first-hand the aftermath of raging forest fires, unprecedented temperatures and the loss of homes and communities in both countries as well as the [...]
Are you a journalist in a senior role or planning your next move up the career ladder? Get insight and advice from our panel of leading female executives in TV, newspapers and magazines - print and digital - and join the discussion about how to keep the female talent pipeline flowing towards the top. Chair [...]
Who are the journalists who make up the "Lobby" at Westminster and why do all governments try to bring them to heel? Get the inside track from two of the UK's most distinguished political journalists: Carole Walker reported politics and foreign affairs for the BBC for over 30 years and her new book Lobby Life, lifts the lid [...]
“Women are on the frontline in terms of vulnerability to the climate crisis, and it's important that we recognise that,” said Fiona Harvey, the Guardian’s environment correspondent. In the developing world, climate change is causing crop failure, water scarcity, extreme weather and rising sea levels. In many communities, it is women who grow the food [...]
Around the world every day there are journalists putting their lives at risk in order to report the truth. Often their families too face physical harm and intimidation. These are the true heroes of our trade. Those for whom speaking truth to power comes with real consequences. Everyone who believes in the importance of journalism owes a [...]
Women in Journalism (WiJ) is proud to support the brightest new ideas with a £4,000 annual prize sponsored by Wiggin LLP, in memory of the Guardian’s late deputy editor, Georgina Henry, also a former Women in Journalism chair. The applications for this years prize are closed but the winner and runner up will be invited to [...]
Being axed from the Sunday Times after 23 years felt like an out-of-body experience for Eleanor Mills but a year on she says she wouldn’t go back. “At the time, one of my old bosses said the redundancy would be the best thing that ever happened to me and I wanted to hit him; but [...]
The Duchess of Cornwall used a Women In Journalism event at Dumfries House to urge the world to ‘do all we can’ to protect female journalists working in Afghanistan. After hosting 40 members of WIJ for a mentoring event in the Tapestry Room at the Georgian mansion in Ayrshire, Camilla gave an impassioned plea highlighting [...]
