Category Archives: Energy access

Discourse Media announces second Access to Energy Journalism Fellowship

by Lindsay Sample on

Fellowship opportunity aimed at enabling deep, critical reporting on energy issues in sub-Saharan Africa   Andrew Mambondiyani, a Power Struggle 2015/2016 fellow, interviews Elijah Ngwarati while reporting in Zimbabwe.   The Access to Energy Journalism Fellowship (AEJF) supports reporting that pushes the conversation about energy access and climate change forward. Our first project had a global scope: we selected fellows from around the world to share stories of energy poverty and…

Discourse Media presents Power Struggle, a marquee hub for in-depth journalism about energy poverty — and a model for collaborative solutions journalism

by Brielle Morgan on

  VANCOUVER, BC – This week, Discourse Media launched Power Struggle, a collaborative journalism project that asks how energy poverty impacts communities around the world. It investigates emerging solutions that consider climate change. And it demonstrates what’s possible when journalists, media outlets and non-profits work together to critically investigate complex global challenges through a solutions lens.  Discourse Media collaborated with nine international reporting fellows to investigate how energy poverty affects people…

Meet the journalists reporting for the Access to Energy Journalism Fellowship

by Nelly Bouevitch on

In the Fall of 2015, we put out a global call for applications for the Access to Energy Journalism Fellowship, a collaborative journalism project with the Waterloo Global Science Initiative that investigates the drivers of energy poverty around the world and potential solutions. We were looking for journalists eager to report on how different countries are grappling with energy poverty and the ability to produce stories deeply rooted in people’s…