A practice-based course focused on reporting climate stories from the field. Students conduct interviews, field observation and multimedia reporting in Portugal.
 

Topics
● Every story is a Climate story
● Climate impacts and solutions reporting
● Climate visuals: from global to local
● Interviewing scientists, policymakers and communities
● Multimedia reporting (video and podcast)
 

Possible reporting themes
● Coastal erosion and sea level rise
● Renewable energy transitions
● Urban climate adaptation
● Biodiversity conservation
 

Teacher bio
Vera Moutinho is a multimedia journalist and lecturer at School of Communication and Media Studies (ESCS-IPL). Her work focuses on environmental journalism, climate storytelling and multimedia reporting projects.
 

Ricardo Garcia is a journalist and trainer specialist in environmental reporting. He has extensive experience covering climate change and environmental policy, focusing on science journalism and data-driven storytelling. He collaborates with organisations such as the Thomson Reuters Foundation to develop climate change training programmes.