Climate journalism has been a core competence at the Center for Media Competence since 2023.
Based on the ARD/ZDF Journalism Forum on Climate Change and Sustainability, the ZFM has established a key link to the Climate Journalism Network. The network is constantly exchanging views on the causes, reasons and contexts why the media are finding it so difficult to present the climate crisis in an adequate, interdisciplinary and constructive way. You can also download presentations (PDFs) by Sara Schurmann and Leonie Sontheimer from the Climate Journalism Network here. Click here for Leonie Sontheimer's presentation at Greentech.LIVE.

Together with the network, the ZFM has been offering courses on climate communication and climate journalism from student QA funds since summer semester 2023. The lecturers Sara Schurmann, Raphael Thelen, Katharina Mau and Kristin Langen are experienced journalists and work for national newspapers and magazines (e.g. SPIEGEL, Tagesspiegel, Zeit online) or public broadcasters (e.g. Deutschlandfunk, rbb, ZDF).

Luisa Neubauer's Mediendozentur at the Institute for Media Studies and SWR, in which she posed the systemic question “What do we get from the fossil lifestyle?” and analyzed with razor-sharp precision the points at which our Western-capitalist societies have taken a wrong turn, also paved the way for our entry into the work of our own climate editorial team. Since then, we have been pursuing the answer to what a sustainably restructured and economically viable society of the future could look like in the work of the climate editorial team.

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We are in the midst of a crisis and are asking ourselves what it will take to deal with the effects on people and nature. To answer this question, Chiara Gehrig and Leonie Schwarz from the climate editorial team at the Centre for Media Competence at the University of Tübingen have collected various contributions from Tübingen students that look at the climate crisis from different perspectives.

 Click here for the Radio Micro-Europa programme!

Fair fashion, unpackaged organic food and expensive “zero waste” products - a sustainable lifestyle often only seems feasible with a bigger wallet. The film follows a student from Tübingen who is trying to make her everyday life climate-friendly without spending a lot of money. This includes not only reducing her ecological footprint, but also making an active commitment to the climate - and thus increasing her ecological handprint.

“Green without money - living sustainably as a student” is the graduation film of Robin Glücker, who successfully completed his training as a media designer for image and sound at the Center for Media Competence at the University of Tübingen in 2024.

 Watch the movie here