1) Angie Mrad (Lebanon)
2) Bidhya Rai (Nepal)
3) Bruna Bronoski (Brazil)
4) Ethan Van Diemen (South Africa)
5) María Belén Galeano (Paraguay)
6) Patricia Sia Ngevao (Sierra Leone)
7) Protus Onyango (Kenya)
8) Saïbe Kabila (DR Congo)
9) Suhail Bhat (India)
10) Yash Sadhak Shrivastava (India)
The CITS recipients will fully participate in the 24.5-hour hands-on Climate Investigations Course (CIC), which will run online on specific days between March and May. Find more details here - tcij.org/ocri-announc...
Without further ado, meet the 10 deserving CITS beneficiaries -
Announcing the 2026 cohort receiving our Climate Investigations Training Scholarship (CITS)! 🥁
From 485 applications received across 70 countries, selecting the 10 Scholarship recipients was tough and highly competitive, with about another 50 on our waitlist 😥.
It’s not just Labour together who were snooping on journalists.
Really feels like we need a proper investigation into how journalists have been surveilled and smeared
www.bbc.com/news/article...
At the Investigatory Powers Tribunal, the PSNI and MI5 admit a “long and consistent campaign of unlawful interference” surveilling a local journalist's phone.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
Fantastic investigation by Democracy for Sale into Labour Together's deeply troubling use of APCO to investigative the background and views of Sunday Times investigative journalists Gabriel Pogrund and Harry Yorke - and smear both.
democracyforsale.substack.com/p/starmer-al...
It's been 2 weeks we hosted a global webinar on How Climate Investigations Gets Results.
Rowan Philp writes on Tips for Choosing Climate Stories that Make an Impact for @gijn.org containing all the main take-aways from the webinar.
Thank you, Rowan! Read it all here:
gijn.org/stories/tips...
The #CIJLyraMckee is one sure way to help you become an investigative journalist!
Don't believe?
Our very own Marina Calland talks about the scheme's successes in previous years and what to expect this year, thanks to our partnership with @investigate-europe.eu 👇
That CIJ fellow Cormac Kehoe is being sued personally alongside editor @joshih.bsky.social and publisher @millmedia.bsky.social is deeply disturbing, and clearly a SLAPP. pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/d... @charlottetobitt.bsky.social
Today, we’re excited to announce the CIJ–Investigate Europe Lyra McKee Fellowship, in partnership with @tcij.org. Fellows will work with Investigate Europe journalists on cross-border investigations in a flexible format.
Apply by 6 April: tcij.org/news/cij-inv...
Climate Investigations Training Scholarships
These @tcij.org scholarships aim to upskill investigative techniques for in-depth climate investigations.
Apply by Feb 11:
We’ve learnt so much about what is possible when we upskill journalists, build networks, share published stories, drive policy shifts and empower climate resilient communities – and there’s so much more to come.
Join us now as a participant, partner or funder. It’s all hands on deck!
...climate change has positive results:
1) Tracking climate finance and ensuring transparent use
2) Driving justice and equity
3) Centring communities and protecting ecosystems
Follow the link and see some of the most impactful stories of the CIJ #OCRI - tcij.org/news/can-inv...
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Over 5000 beneficiaries (journalists and organisations alike) across 58 countries received training and support from our OCRI programmes.
Participants have gained new skills and networks, and used them to expose uncomfortable stories that point to three key areas where investigating...
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It's the last day of our #OCRIImpact week!
Today our very own Adeolu Adekola, OCRI Project Manager and Tom Sanderson, CIJ Deputy Editor look at the impact our OCRI initiative had all over the world. And when we say the word - we mean it.
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Overall, the schools have become significantly safer and thousands of students’ lives have been protected.
Read more about this and other investigations by
Basant Pratap Singh here: tcij.org/news/safer-s...
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...schools under threat. 2 schools were relocated and reconstructed in safe places under the Presidential School Reform Programme. Additionally, necessary risk mitigation measures have now been implemented to protect school buildings from landslides and floods at almost all other at-risk schools. /5
...methods, mapping skills and the use satellite imagery, proved crucial in analysing the condition of the schools.
The story drew serious attention from local, provincial, and federal governments, and within a few months all three levels of government increased their activity to secure...
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Teachers and students of Jagadamba Basic School are conducting classes in an open field next to a forest after floods caused by unseasonal rains washed away the school.
The damage caused by the flood in Kartik 2078 BS at Luyata Basic School, where 150 students are studying.
Bajhang is a remote mountainous area with schools scattered across the district’s various hilltops, slopes, and valleys. Reaching them would be hard.
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Damage caused by the flood in Kartik 2078 BS at Jagdamba Basic School, where 170 students are studying
The risk of landslides increased after a road was built above Bhumi Dev Basic School, where 236 students study
The idea for the investigation came from scrawling on X: a striking photo of a school building, surrounded on both sides by terrifying landslides, caught his eye. He dug deeper and realised that children were still studying in it. Were other schools in Bajhang district also at risk?
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Today on we travel to the far western Nepal.
As part of our daily #OCRIImpact week posts,
Basant Pratap Singh writes how his reporting on the 122 schools at high risk of natural disasters in Bajhang, got the local, provincial, and federal governments to act fast.
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- @ninalakhani.bsky.social, Global Climate Justice Reporter @drilledmedia.bsky.social
- Maximiliano Manzoni, Climate Investigative Journalist and Director at Consenso
- Adeolu Adekola, OCRI Project Manager @tcij.org
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If you have not registered for the free webinar to learn about how climate investigations get results, then this is your cue!
D-day is tomorrow, and registration ends at 7 pm today (UK time)!
Looking forward to hearing from:
- Syed Nazakat, Founder and CEO at DataLEADS
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...energy transition — issues that previously sat on the margins of electoral debate.
Read more about OCRI impact in West Africa - tcij.org/news/can-a-s...
Join us on Thursday for a free webinar on how to make your climate investigations more impactful. (Link for the webinar 👇).
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...and international advocacy conversations at #COP27 in Egypt, where the global Loss and Damage Facility was agreed. By the time Nigeria’s 2023 general elections took place, candidates were forced to speak publicly on flooding, food security, environmental degradation, and...
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...together with a national Climate Change Media Summit helped frame flooding not just as a seasonal disaster but as a governance, planning, and early-warning failure. These reports triggered formal responses from the Nigerian Meteorological Agency (NIMet) and fed into national...
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Akintunde Babatunde writes how the OCRI-supported investigations managed to sustain national attention on climate governance at a time when political focus was elsewhere.
By the end of 2022, when devastating floods hit Nigeria, fourteen OCRI-supported investigations and a documentary,...
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It is day 2 of #OCRIImpact week and we have evidences to show how investigative climate stories have shifted policies in West Africa.
In the the 2nd of our daily Open Climate Reporting Initiative posts, we travel to Nigeria and look at the impact OCRI had there and in West Africa generally.
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