„Follow the Carbon, the Money and the Data“ is a two-day training program by Netzwerk Klimajournalismus Österreich designed to strengthen investigative climate reporting. The training equips participants with core skills to uncover the forces driving the climate crisis. Participants will learn to track emissions across borders, follow financial flows, decode corporate climate claims, navigate FOI laws, analyze lobbying influence on EU climate policy, and work with geodata, satellite imagery and flight tracking tools. All sessions are led by experienced investigative journalists and climate experts, with a strong focus on practical methods and real case studies. The sessions will take place in English.
This two-day training will bring together 20 journalists from across Europe in Vienna on April 24th and 25th at the Forum Journalismus und Medien (fjum). It is open to professional journalists based in Europe, whether they already cover climate topics or hope to integrate climate investigations into their beat. Travel and accommodation will be covered thanks to funding from Journalismfund Europe.
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Meet the Trainers
Vera Deleja-Hotko is an investigative journalist and heads the investigative department at FragDenStaat. Her work combines freedom of information rights, data analysis and traditional research. She makes targeted use of freedom of information requests to make government actions transparent and expose structural abuses.
Caroline Henshaw is an investigative editor with UK-based journalism organisation Finance Uncovered, where she works with reporters from the developing world on investigations into illicit finance that hold companies and the powerful to account. She also delivers training on follow-the-money techniques and previously oversaw OCCRP’s award-winning investigations into how corruption and organized crime harm the environment.
Alexander Fanta is an investigative journalist at Follow the Money and researches the power of technology companies. He uses the Freedom of Information Act of the EU and countries around the world for his research. Alexander is co-founder of the network Journalists in Europe for Transparency and co-author of the newsletter Secrecy Tracker.
Based in Spain, Eli Moskowitz joined OCCRP in 2020 and coordinates OCCRP’s environmental investigations. He has covered deforestation and land grabbing across Latin America, and has reported on how unchecked development finance and extractive industries can perpetuate environmental damage and corruption. His stories also focus on how financial secrecy and tax havens are linked to environmental crime.
Federico Acosta Rainis is a data specialist at the Pulitzer Center, working closely with journalists on data-driven investigations, from scraping and geospatial analysis to creative reporting strategies. He previously worked at La Nación in Argentina and was a Google News Initiative Fellow at The Guardian. He holds a master’s in data journalism from Birmingham City University as a Chevening Scholar.
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About us: The Climate Journalism Network Austria is a cross-media initiative that counts more than 70 members and is run by a core team of twelve people. Its aim is to connect journalists interested in climate reporting and to inform about current developments in the industry as well as in climate news. This happens through a monthly newsletter, press briefings, as well as informal meetups and a summer school. The network was founded in October 2020.
The training program is funded by
