By Habitat Media Reporter
Dar es Salaam. Habitat Media has been selected as one of six African newsrooms to participate in a new climate solutions journalism initiative aimed at strengthening media coverage of climate change and practical responses to its impacts.
The Tanzania-based media organisation was competitively selected by the Media for Environment, Science, Health and Agriculture (MESHA), in partnership with the Solutions Journalism Network (SJN), for the inaugural “Africa Climate Beacons Newsroom Initiative 2026/2027”.
The seven-month programme, which runs from September 2026 to March 2027, attracted 133 applications from newsrooms across English-speaking Africa.
The initiative seeks to help participating media organisations move beyond conventional climate coverage, which often focuses on disasters, risks and challenges, towards journalism that examines evidence-based responses and solutions.
MESHA Chief Executive Officer Aghan Daniel said the programme would strengthen newsroom capacity while enabling journalists to produce more effective and impactful climate coverage.
“The initiative brings together newsrooms from across English-speaking Africa to strengthen climate reporting, deepen newsroom capacity and shift coverage beyond problem-focused reporting towards evidence-based responses to climate challenges,” Daniel said.
Besides Habitat Media, the selected organisations are Radio Africa Group of Kenya, Water Journalists Africa and Media Challenge Initiative of Uganda, Social Voices of Nigeria and Zodiak Broadcasting Station of Malawi.
The six-member cohort represents five African countries and a range of media platforms, including radio, digital, print and broadcast media.
For Habitat Media, the initiative provides an opportunity to strengthen its capacity for climate and environmental reporting while developing journalism that connects climate challenges with practical responses, economic opportunities and their implications for communities and businesses.
The programme comes amid a growing push within African journalism to make climate reporting more relevant and useful to audiences by examining what works, where it works and whether successful approaches can be replicated elsewhere.
Rather than simply documenting the effects of climate change, the initiative will focus on identifying and scrutinising responses that demonstrate evidence of progress, while drawing lessons that can inform policymakers, businesses and communities.