Social Media Vital to Reporting Environmental News
While a conference on climate change is taking place in Morocco, three journalists, from Nigeria, Kenya and South Africa respectively, discuss what it means to be an environment reporter and the priority newsrooms give to news on environment.
Atâyi Babs, from Nigeria, is the founder of Climate Reporters, a bilingual (English/French) online newspaper. Prior to that, Atâyi worked for RFI's Hausa service in Lagos.
Stellar Murumba, from Kenya, is a journalist with the Business Daily. She is also the cofounder and a member of the Environmental Journalism Society of Kenya.
Sipho Kings, from South Africa, is the environment reporter for the Mail & Guardian daily.
Sean MacEntee