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In Africa, climate change is now daily life. It is in the floods and the droughts, food prices and water shortages, in land conflicts, mining, energy, migration, health and livelihoods. But in its newsrooms, climate change is not a daily story.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThere is a real tension in African journalism. Climate change… is still often treated like a niche beat or a disaster story, rather than something that cuts across politics, business, health, food, inequality and daily life,\u201d said Sheree Bega, environment reporter and acting news editor at South Africa\u2019s Mail & Guardian.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dialogue Earth spoke to editors and media leaders in South Africa, Rwanda, Kenya and Ghana about the state of environmental journalism on the continent. Most said they grapple with one central question: \u201cAre we covering climate because it is dramatic in the moment, or because we understand it as an ongoing public-interest issue that needs sustained reporting?\u201d as Bega put it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In most newsrooms, editors described climate coverage being triggered by visible events \u2013 floods, deaths, storms, droughts or official warnings. \u201cMost times, journalists are in a situation where they are reacting to these, without knowing what happened and the science behind it,\u201d said Mary Mwendwa, editor at Nairobi-based platform Talk Africa. \u201cClimate stories are not very well researched.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The risk, Mwenda said, is that the media becomes entirely dependent on official prompts. Weather alerts from the government are necessary but other questions fall by the wayside, such as why some places flood repeatedly, why some communities are more exposed. \u201cWe need to go beyond these alerts and set the agenda as media,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Her ideas include a special desk on climate reporting, training for journalists, and a \u201cdeliberate effort\u201d by media houses. \u201cMany media houses have political affiliations, and with this kind of setting, politics always takes centre stage. You find climate stories as features within news items, and not as the main or top story.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But there are some that can spot shoots of change. Joe Ageyo, editor-in-chief of the Nation in Kenya, believes climate reporting has begun to move away from purely episodic coverage. \u201cThe doom and gloom that was the hallmark of climate reporting, has given way to something more contextual,\u201d he said. \u201cClimate has become a cross-cutting editorial issue.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Even if it exists however, that shift is uneven. While some contextual climate journalism is emerging, editors said this largely rests on individual journalists, rather than institutions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The broken newsroom model<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The problem is both structural and editorial.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Climate reporting must be understood within the wider crisis in journalism, Sheree Bega said. Generally speaking it takes a lot of time and money, \u201cexactly the things many newsrooms are struggling to afford\u201d, she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

External funding has helped build climate journalism across the continent, but when stories depend too heavily on donor support, coverage can become seasonal, theme-driven and vulnerable to external priorities. \u201cClimate stories don\u2019t normally sell, even though they are often impactful,\u201d said Emmanuel Dogbevi, managing editor of Ghana Business News.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Niyonagize Fulgence, a Rwandan journalist and the media coordinator at Fojo Media Institute, said: \u201cClimate stories become more investigative and data-driven mainly when there is external funding or grants available. Otherwise, they are generally reported in the same way as other routine news, often remaining episodic and reactive.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bega urged newsrooms to \u201ctreat climate reporting as core public-interest journalism, not something that only happens when there is dedicated funding attached to it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sbu Ngalwa, secretary general of the African Editors Forum, said that while grants are not the ultimate solution, in the absence of other sustainable methods of financing journalism, they \u201chelp a great deal.\u201d But, he said, donor support must be part of a wider set of interventions that rebuild African newsroom capacity. \u201cWe know the business model. It can be fixed,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Climate reporting is accountability reporting<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Newsroom leaders in Africa said another pressure is that climate reporting often runs directly into political power. \u201cOnce you start reporting seriously on energy, mining, pollution, land use, infrastructure, adaptation or environmental regulation, you are no longer covering \u201cthe environment\u201d; you are covering politics and business in a very direct way,\u201d said Bega.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You will find very few independent critical stories on climate, and more stories quoting political leadership and business leaders<\/blockquote>Emmanuel Dogbevi, managing editor of Ghana Business News<\/cite><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Dogbevi said that in Ghana too, much climate coverage is still driven by official voices instead of independent reporting. \u201cMost of the stories you will find around, particularly from where I operate, are stories derived from speeches of politicians, workshops by appointees and elected officials, technocrats, and some civil society organisations that end up working in the climate space,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd so, you will find very few independent critical stories on climate, and more stories quoting political leadership and business leaders,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bega warned that climate narratives are written in language that is often benign: development, investment, resilience, sustainability and energy security. Some of this reflects policy work. But some conceals political or corporate interests. \u201cThere is a lot of branding around sustainability now, but some of it is clearly greenwashing,\u201d Bega said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fulgence of the Fojo Media Institute said: \u201cOther issues, such as environmental degradation linked to mining activities owned by powerful actors, can be more sensitive. In such cases, journalists may hesitate to report due to potential risks, including threats to their safety.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The development question<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Multiple editors told Dialogue Earth that African climate coverage relies too heavily on UN climate summits and other global policy, instead of emanating from the continent\u2019s own development pressures. \u201cClimate reporting in Africa has to be rooted in the realities of the people. It can\u2019t just mirror global narratives or focus only on catastrophe,\u201d Bega said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fiona Macleod, based in Johannesburg, and founder of non-profit newsroom the Oxpeckers Investigative Environmental Journalism, says she can spot some change around her: \u201cEnvironmental and climate-related stories were regarded as sort of nice to have \u2026 I think many \u2013 most \u2013 media are now regarding them as \u2018we must have.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For Oxpeckers, the goal is to examine systems and processes. \u201cWe\u2019re not just doing the \u2018this is happening today\u2019 \u2026 We\u2019re doing a lot more than that \u2026 combining traditional investigative reporting techniques with data analysis and geo-mapping,\u201d Macleod said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What audiences think, and the lack of training<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Editors said climate stories often struggle to attract audiences. This tallies with a 2021 Rwandan media consumption survey which found<\/a> audience interest in climate change stories to be relatively low. Disaster-related stories and weather forecasts ranked higher. \u201cThis suggests that audiences are interested in weather information for daily planning, but less engaged with broader climate change issues,\u201d Fulgence said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bega says audiences engage when climate reporting is connected to lived reality. \u201cWhen climate reporting is framed only through policy language or international summits, it can feel distant \u2013 but when it\u2019s connected to daily life \u2026 people understand very quickly that this is not a future issue, it\u2019s already here,\u201d Bega said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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For Dogbevi, in Ghana, there is also a clear skills gap in African newsrooms: \u201cI don\u2019t think there is enough training on climate reporting, and we need it to ensure competence in climate storytelling.\u201d Ngalwa added that a primary reason has been that newsrooms have \u201cjust been trying to stay afloat.\u201d \u201cThere\u2019s been very little investment in improving the level of journalism, and the tools of storytelling,\u201d Ngalwa said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is in an environment where artificial intelligence and digital tools are beginning to change newsroom workflows. Bega said that while AI can assist with information, the core work of journalism still depends on people, context and power. \u201cThough AI can be useful for handling large volumes of information, it cannot replace talking to people, understanding communities and interrogating power,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The editors interviewed by Dialogue Earth described a field under pressure. Climate journalism must explain one of the defining public-interest stories of the century while newsrooms are financially strained, politically exposed, understaffed and still learning how to connect climate to daily life. They argued that climate journalism has to become part of the permanent machinery of public-interest reporting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As the climate story unfolds apace in many African communities, journalism must catch up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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