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Macaranga Workshop: Constructive Journalism, Climate Disinformation and Indigenous People

January 27, 2026 SL Wong

Nine issues tackled in journalism supported by Macaranga's Environmental Reporting Mentorship

21 August 2025: From ikan bilis fisheries to light pollution and waste management, the Macaranga Environmental Reporting Mentorship 2025 saw the production of features by 5 journalists and 5 news pieces by university students.

This project was supported by a grant from the Youth Environment Living Labs (YELL) administered by Justice for Wildlife Malaysia.

Our objective was to promote environmental messaging that is based on facts, guided by science, driven by data, is balanced and aligned to global environmental aspirations. It also promotes the role of the media and youth as key civil society actors and drivers of change.

Capacity building of journalists

We held a workshop for 12 reporters from different newsrooms to build their skills and up their knowledge on environmental issues. We then gave out 4 grants for 4 journalists to produce stories, and mentored them for 4 months.

Check out their indepth investigations:

Malaysia’s growing light pollution threatens wildlife; Light Pollution Guideline in the works and a follow-up story quoting MPs (Luqman Hakim / New Straits Times)
Coastal Crisis: What’s Eating Terengganu’s Shoreline? (Liew Yi Min / PocketTimes with Najmi Mamat)
When fishermen are forced to relocate, do you still have seafood to eat? — The conflict behind Pangkor Island’s development; English version (Yap Si Err / KiniTV)
Can Selangor Handle the Data Centre Boom? (Sakina Mohamed & Shaza Al Muzayen / Garasi Bernama)

Call for Applications ~ For Journalists: Reporting on the Environment

Tired of fighting fake climate news? Or writing bad news? Let’s do something about it. Macaranga invites journalists to join a 3-day workshop on Constructive Journalism, Climate Disinformation and Indigenous People from 3-5 March 2026. Apply here by 13 February 2026.

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Environmental Story Workshop and Competition (University)

April 9, 2025 Macaranga Leave a comment

Macaranga Media is collaborating with Universiti Malaya and Taylor’s University to run a 2-day journalism workshop and a competition for students at these universities.

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Macaranga Environmental Reporting Mentorship

December 2, 2024 Macaranga

Nine issues tackled in journalism supported by Macaranga's Environmental Reporting Mentorship

This project was supported by a grant from the Youth Environment Living Labs (YELL) administered by Justice for Wildlife Malaysia.

Capacity building of journalists

Check out their indepth investigations:

Malaysia’s growing light pollution threatens wildlife; Light Pollution Guideline in the works and a follow-up story quoting MPs (Luqman Hakim / New Straits Times)
Coastal Crisis: What’s Eating Terengganu’s Shoreline? (Liew Yi Min / PocketTimes with Najmi Mamat)
When fishermen are forced to relocate, do you still have seafood to eat? — The conflict behind Pangkor Island’s development; English version (Yap Si Err / KiniTV)
Can Selangor Handle the Data Centre Boom? (Sakina Mohamed & Shaza Al Muzayen / Garasi Bernama)

2. Capacity building of university students

In collaboration with Universiti Malaya and Taylors University, we put students through a workshop and mentorship to produce news stories and related social media content. The students came from journalism and science disciplines.

Five groups received grants and were mentored to work on their chosen topics on respectively food and electronic waste, overconsumption, and biodiversity loss. Check out their stories on the YELL website (July 2025).

A forum was also held and a student in the audience, Dharyaasri Karthigesan, was applauded when she said that young people liked to have fun but also cared about the environment. However, youths needed adults to create spaces for them; at the same time, adults needed to take young people seriously.

With thanks to all the newsrooms and journalists as well as university students who participated! Much gratitude to our subject matter experts, as well as fellow trainers, mentors, and collaborators including Aidila Razak, Kuek Ser Kuang Keng, Dexter Chan, Lau Chak Onn, Muhamad Iqbal Fatkhi, Ian Yee, and Hilal Azmi.

Call for Applications ~ For Journalists: Reporting on the Environment

UPDATE: CLOSED – APPLICANTS HAVE BEEN SELECTED. CHECK OUT OUR BLOG FOR DETAILS OF THE WORKSHOP.

Are you itching to report on the Malaysian environment? Do you need help shaping your story idea and bringing it to fruition? Are you eager to apply data and mapping in your stories?

If you are nodding, then we have designed the perfect workshop for you!

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