PREMIUM TIMES’ Journalist, others chosen for SEJ Variety Fellowship

A PREMIUM TIMES journalist and Local weather Change reporter, Abdulkareem Mojeed, has been chosen for the Variety Fellowship of the Society of Environmental Journalists (SEJ).

Mr Mojeed is chosen, alongside 31 different media professionals from the world over.

The organisers, SEJ and The Uproot Undertaking, introduced this in a publish made on its web site on Tuesday.

Mr Mojeed is an agriculture and surroundings reporter on the newspaper’s enterprise desk. He’s additionally a media coach with a speciality in agriculture and local weather change.

#SEJ2024

SEJ partnered with the Uproot Undertaking to supply variety fellowships to help journalists to attend this 12 months’s annual SEJ Convention tagged #SEJ2024 and to be held in Philadelphia, the US.

The fellowship, which price as much as $2800 gives a complimentary SEJ one-year membership or renewal ($70 worth), convention registration inclusive of ticketed occasions ($800 worth), as much as 5 (5) nights’ lodging at SEJ’s convention resort ($1000 worth), and Journey (as much as $1000).

The Uproot Undertaking is a community for journalists of color who cowl environmental points, in addition to college students and others aspiring to cowl the beat.

SEJ, in the meantime, is a North American membership affiliation {of professional} journalists devoted to extra and higher protection of environment-related points.

About Mr Mojeed

Mr Mojeed specialises in improvement journalism, protecting matters corresponding to agriculture, meals safety, local weather change, and the surroundings.

He has contributed considerably to analysis on the influence of local weather change on girls farmers in Ghana and Nigeria. He was in Egypt and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) in 2022 and 2023 the place he supplied intensive protection of the United Nations Convention of the Events COP27 and 28, respectively.

Different individuals

Different individuals as listed by the organisers are; Daniela Aguilar, La Historia and Connectas.org (Ecuador); Eduardo Andrade, Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Undertaking, OCCRP (Brazil); Erica Ayisi, Impartial Journalist (Massachusetts); Timmy Broderick, Impartial Journalist (New York); Keith Bryant, Spectrum Information (California); Ana Bueno, Univision 45 (Texas); Yvette Cabrera, The Middle for Public Integrity (California); Yuen Yung Sherry Chan, The Initium (England);

Others embrace; Amber Chen, Impartial Journalist (California); Katherine Cheng, International Information (Canada); Achref Chibani, Impartial Journalist (Tunisia); Tanvi Dutta Gupta, Impartial Journalist (Singapore); Najifa Farha, College of Montana; Celeste Gracia, North Carolina Public Radio, WUNC; Lauren Hines-Acosta, Chesapeake Bay Journal (Texas); Terry Jones, Floodlight Information (Louisiana); Mia Maldonado, Idaho Capital Solar; Anusha Mathur, Pupil (California); Marisa Meck, WABE 90.1 (Georgia); Luis Joel Méndez González, Centro de Periodismo Investigativo (Puerto Rico); Eman Mounir, Impartial Journalist (Egypt).

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Others are; Maria de los Angeles Ramírez Cabello, Impartial Journalist (Venezuela); María Ramos Pacheco, The Dallas Morning Information (Texas); Breanna Rittman, WMBD/WYZZ (Illinois); Manola Secaira, CapRadio NPR (California); Helina Selemon, New York Amsterdam Information; Nimra Shahid, The Bureau of Investigative Journalism; Impartial Journalist (England); Aditi Tandon, Mongabay (India); Mary Triny Zea Cornejo, Impartial Journalist (Panama); Amanda Zhou, The Seattle Instances (Washington); Sushmita, Impartial Journalist (India);