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Topic: Technology
Video

AI’s Unquenchable Thirst for Water

"Beyond its staggering electricity demands, AI requires water — and a lot of it. A single data center can consume over 300,000 gallons a day — equivalent to the water used in a thousand homes — to cool the computers powering your chat prompts. As climate change worsens water scarcity through rising temperatures and disruptions to precipitation patterns, AI threatens to further drain water from the areas that need it most; over two-thirds of data centers built since 2022 are in water-stressed regions. As big tech continues its plan to build as many data centers as possible, Covering Climate Now hosted a one-hour discussion where we highlighted the reasons for AI’s ever-growing thirst, explored how to cover the local concerns of communities facing water shortages, and investigated potential solutions to safeguard this increasingly scarce resource."
Video

Media Briefing: Local Implications of Data Center Growth

"Data center development is rapidly accelerating across the United States. At SciLine’s briefing, jointly hosted with AAAS’ EPI Center, scientists briefed both reporters and public officials on national trends and local implications of data center growth. The briefing covered data center basics, why and at what rate their growth is accelerating, and how related increases in electricity demand, cooling needs, and backup generation are affecting local power grids, water resources, and air quality. This virtual briefing featured short conversations with three experts, followed by a moderated Q&A, all on the record."
Training program

Propel Initiative Regional Training Series at Cal Poly SLO

The Maynard Institute for Journalism Education

"The Propel Initiative Regional Training Series at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo takes place April 24-25, 2026. Sessions will be led by accomplished reporters, editors and news leaders and will serve journalists of all backgrounds working within the state of California and in all platforms and print, digital and broadcast. The training is open to working and student journalists of all backgrounds living and working in California. This program is tuition-free and offers limited travel reimbursements for participants who may need financial assistance." The curriculum has a focus on storytelling, including:
  • Workshops on Beat Coverage: Business, Environment, Arts & Culture, Economy, Crime
  • Immigration Reporting
  • Harnessing AI Ethically in Reporting
  • Writing Techniques You Need Every Day
Deadline: April 13, 2026
Video

AI Data Centers & Their Climate and Community Impact

Covering Climate Now (CCNow)

"The tech industry’s insatiable interest in AI is driving a data center boom in the US that shows no sign of slowing down. The environmental footprint of these facilities is immense. Once touted by tech companies for their potential boon to stimulate local economies with short-lived construction jobs, these proposed facilities have seen nationwide pushback from across the political spectrum for driving up electricity prices and for their local environmental impacts. This discussion equipped journalists with the fundamental understanding of the economic and climate impacts stemming from AI’s vast power use, explored how to investigate data centers in their area, and highlighted unique story ideas to tackle this growing issue playing out in communities across the world."
Article

Covering Battery Storage

"The latest edition of our biweekly newsletter for local journalists explores battery storage, including the important role that battery energy storage systems play in the renewable energy transition, sample stories to inspire your work, and reporting tips from New York Times energy correspondent Ivan Penn."
Organization

Oxpeckers Center for Investigative Environmental Journalism

Oxpeckers, founded and headed by award-winning environmental journalist Fiona Macleod, is "Africa’s first journalistic investigation unit focusing on environmental issues. The Center combines traditional investigative reporting with data analysis and geo-mapping tools to expose eco-offences and track organised criminal syndicates."
Fellowships & Grants

Energy Journalism Fellows

Center on Global Energy Policy at Columbia University, School of International and Public Affairs

"The Energy Journalism Fellows program offers journalists the opportunity to learn about the intersecting disciplines shaping the global energy sector, including finance and markets, climate change, science and technology, policy, and geopolitics."
  • When: June 9 - 12, 2026
  • Where: Columbia University, NYC
  • Includes: Costs of air or train travel and hotel lodging
  • Deadline: March 2
Events

Webinar With the Datajournalists From Oxpeckers

"During the session, Oxpeckers Investigative Environmental Journalism will be demonstrating how to incorporate data into environmental investigations. They will introduce the organisation and the way they work, and showcase some of their digital tools, including #PowerTracker (renewable energy), #WildEye (wildlife trafficking) and #MineAlert (mining licences) to show how data can uncover hidden environmental harms. An Oxpeckers journalist, Andiswa Matikinca, will also walk participants through her award-winning investigation into lithium smugglers as a real-world example of data in action."
  • When: Wednesday, February 18, 2026 @ 17:00 CET / 11 am EST / 8 am PST
Article

5 Actionable Ways To Find Health IT Stories in 2026

"Health information technology is an ever-evolving field with plenty of subtopics ripe for news coverage. If you are looking to incorporate health IT into your reporting, or you’re just getting started as a general reporter who periodically tackles health IT, here are some suggestions for finding story ideas. "
Awards

Science + Literature Book Awards

National Book Foundation

"The Science + Literature program identifies three books annually, steered by a committee of scientific and literary experts, to deepen readers’ understanding of science and technology with a focus on work that highlights the diversity of voices in scientific writing. The selected titles act as a catalyst to create discourse, understanding, and engagement with science for communities across the country. Authors receive a $10,000 prize, are celebrated at a public ceremony in New York, and feature in national public programming. Each spring, the National Book Foundation invites a growing list of science, technology, and literary professionals across the country to make recommendations in fiction, nonfiction, and poetry rooted in real science or technology research or practices. Eligible books must have been published in English by publishers based in the United States within the last three years, and authors must maintain their primary, long-term home in the United States, US territories, or Tribal lands, regardless of citizenship or immigration status. Committee selections are made independently of the National Book Foundation staff and Board of Directors. To suggest a title, email Production Manager Emily Lovett at elovett@nationalbook.org."
Article

Writing About 3D Printing’s Applications in Medicine

"Journalists can find interesting stories by speaking with surgeons or other clinicians about how they are incorporating 3D-printed models of the heart in their procedure planning, or by interviewing patients about how the tools help them understand anatomy and what the procedure will entail."
Workshop

Follow the Carbon, the Money and the Data

The Climate Journalism Network Austria is organizing this investigative workshop in Vienna, for journalists based in Europe. In a two-day workshop on April 24 and 25, 2026, participants will learn how to trace emissions, examine lobbying at the EU level, and follow financial flows. Includes travel and lodging. Apply by January 31.
Workshop

Big Data, Great Lakes: A Journalism Workshop Exploring Data Centers in Southeastern Wisconsin

Institute for Journalism & Natural Resources (IJNR)

"The United States currently has the largest data center footprint in the world and there are no signs development will slow down. The Great Lakes region is home to nearly 20 percent of U.S. data centers and hundreds more are being planned or under construction. While the tech industry races to keep up with the computing demands of things like artificial intelligence (AI), streaming and cloud storage, local communities struggle to balance environmental and energy concerns with the potential economic boost of what some are calling an 'AI gold rush.' This March 15-18, the Institute for Journalism & Natural Resources will conduct an expenses-paid workshop that will get journalists up to speed on this emerging issue. Participants will go out in the field to meet the people shaping the data center discourse in the Great Lakes. Set in and around Milwaukee, the workshop will explore what data center development may mean for states and communities in this water-rich region. Participants will speak with local municipal leaders, tech industry representatives, state regulators, environmental groups and more as they learn about new developments for companies like Meta and Microsoft, construction moratoriums, the increasing demand for energy, growing water concerns and future projections for a 'freshwater economy.'" Apply by Feb. 6.
Article

Q&A: Ella Muncie on AI, Environmental Storytelling and the Future of Advocacy

The Hitchcock Project for Visualizing Science, Reynolds School of Journalism, University of Nevada, Reno

"Ella Muncie, Ph.D., is a researcher in environmental communication. She recently completed her doctoral degree at the University of Leicester, exploring how artificial intelligence is reshaping creative activism. Her paper, Artificial Intelligence and New Voices in Environmental Campaigning, analyzed Greenpeace International’s 'Alternative Futures' initiative, one of the first environmental campaigns to use AI-generated imagery (read more in our Research Review of Muncie’s paper). In this conversation, Muncie discusses the promises and pitfalls of using AI for environmental storytelling and what responsible advocacy might look like in the years ahead."
Resource Database / Guide

GIJN Resource Center’s Top Guides for 2025

Global Investigative Journalism Network

"This year, GIJN’s Resource Center team produced a wide variety of guides on everything from investigating climate change to reporting on AI, from digging into Chinese companies to probing evidence of war crimes, and from covering food insecurity to looking at land conflict."
Video

Satellite Data for Journalists: Turning Earth Images Into Stories

Copernicus Land Monitoring Service (CLMS) and the European Journalism Centre (EJC)

"The session explains how satellite imagery can be processed into maps and measurements that show how land is used and how it evolves over time. It presents the core principles behind satellite-based land monitoring, including the use of high-resolution imagery, automated analysis tools, and online platforms that make Earth observation data accessible to non-specialists. Through concrete examples, the webinar shows how climate journalists can use this data to support investigations, strengthen evidence, and visualise environmental change. Topics include long-term trends affecting forests, cities, agricultural land, and natural areas, with links to climate change, deforestation, urbanisation, and land degradation."
Video

Responsible Reporting on Climate Repair

"On Monday, November 17, 2025, the EFSJ [European Federation for Science Journalism] hosted the first event in its new series of online webinars and discussions exploring responsible science journalism on proposed technological solutions for the climate crisis, curated by Olga Dobrovidova, the former vice-president of EFSJ. Rebekah White, science journalist, former managing editor of New Zealand Geographic and Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism 2024 fellow, presented insights from her RISJ paper on covering 'climate repair' – technologies and projects intended to halt or reverse global warming by removing carbon from the atmosphere or by intentionally modifying other parts of the climate system (for example, to reflect more sunlight back into space)."
Article

Essential Open Source Tools for Journalists Investigating Air Pollution

International Center for Journalists

"Despite its widespread impact, tracking air pollution is challenging. Governments may under-report data, corporations often hide emissions, and polluters exploit regulatory loopholes. Investigative journalists play a key role in exposing this environmental misconduct, a task that open-source intelligence (OSINT) tools can help with. I lay out below OSINT tools that journalists can utilize to track air pollution, uncover its sources, and reveal the corporate networks responsible."
Resource Database / Guide

AI Spotlight Series Toolkit

"This toolkit builds on the Pulitzer Center’s AI Spotlight Series, an initiative designed to expand the field of AI accountability reporting by equipping journalists worldwide with the skills and knowledge necessary to cover AI critically and responsibly. ‍"We have conducted more than two dozen webinars and in-person sessions since 2024 and have trained nearly 3,000 journalists across the globe in seven languages. In an effort to make the AI Spotlight Series resources even more accessible, we are open-sourcing the course modules, slide decks, and videos produced by our instructors who are some of the world’s leading tech reporters and editors. ‍"We invite journalists to access, adapt, and build on a growing body of knowledge to strengthen AI accountability reporting worldwide."
Video

Geo AI: Environmental Journalism Using Artificial Intelligence

"In this webinar, promoted in partnership by Cambridge Digital Humanities (CDH), Earth Genome, and Pulitzer Center, participants presented examples of the current existing models deployed in environmental investigations, discussing their strengths and limitations."
Article

How To Spot Predatory Journals: 4 Tips and 2 Checklists

"It’s important for journalists to be aware of predatory journals because such journals pose a threat to the integrity of science journalism." See also: "Study Sheds Light on Journalists’ Knowledge of Predatory Journals."
Article

Interrogating Data: A Science Writer’s Guide to Data Journalism

"In its simplest definition, data journalism is the practice of using numbers and trends to tell a story. It requires a variety of skills: research to find the correct dataset, analysis to determine what kind of story this dataset may tell, and presentation to share that story with readers. And these skills are within reach for many science writers, even without any programming background: Simply ask questions, and you will find the central tenet of a story."
Video

How Journalists Can Use Scraping Tools for Environmental Stories

Pulitzer Center

"This webinar was led by Pulitzer Center Researcher Fernanda Buffa, Data Editor Kuang Keng Kuek Ser and Martynas Juravičius, R&D Tech Lead at Oxylabs." Topics covered:
  • Tools and platforms to get started, with no coding experience required
  • Real-world case studies: deforestation data, pollution records, permit databases
  • How to collect large datasets from public websites
  • The basics of web scraping and ethical/legal considerations
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Video

AI and Science Journalism: An Uneasy Future

"Stephen Ornes, a freelance science writer, three-time winner of the AAAS Kavli Science Journalism Award, and a Writer in Residence at Vanderbilt University, spoke with Grady College journalism students on Sept. 20, 2025."
Article

6 Tips To Help Journalists Avoid Overgeneralizing Research Findings

"Journalists often overgeneralize study results by reporting that they apply to a much larger group of people than they actually do. In this tip sheet, scholars offer guidance and explain why it's a bad idea to rely on artificial intelligence tools to summarize research."