Climate Editorial Team

Journalism in the fight against the climate crisis

Would you like to deal with different facets of the topic of climate and expand your journalistic know-how in the process? Then the climate editorial team at the Centre for Media Competence is the right place for you. As a team, we accompany exciting projects by students from all disciplines on their way to the public. Or we interview, film and produce content ourselves about everything that's on our minds when it comes to the climate. There are no limits to your creativity. Would you like to write an article about the car-free Wilhelmstrasse or create an Insta post about the benefits of veganism? Then go for it!

We welcome everyone, regardless of their degree programme or previous experience. The main thing is that you want to work on exciting climate-related projects.
If you become part of our editorial team as part of the Transdisciplinary Course Programme, you'll also get a few ECTS on top!

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Climate Journalism

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.

Podcast: On Fire! Climate activism your own way

Is the climate crisis much more threatening than you thought for a long time? Do you feel overwhelmed, shocked and powerless? You're not alone. In our podcast, we want to find out in exciting conversations with different people how you can free yourself from this feeling of being overwhelmed and take action.
Because the good news is: you can. And you can do it your way. We are ON FIRE - are you too?

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Radio Micro-Europa programme: Climate crisis - What does it take?

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!

Grün ohne Geld – Nachhaltig leben als Studentin (Green without money - living sustainably as a student)

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

A Water Story: From Glaciers to Rivers and Lakes through Storytelling

Combining natural science and storytelling is key in climate communication. The transdisciplinary course “A Water Story: From Glaciers to Rivers and Lakes through Storytelling” by Global Awareness Education and the Climate Editorial Team at the University of Tübingen enabled students of all disciplines to get an introduction to this: They learned about the fundamentals of water resource challenges worldwide but also about storytelling communication tools and strategies to inform, educate and influence individuals and communities to tackle water issues. Students then applied gained knowledge to create an audio product related to water using narratives and stories. This video features some of these stories, which were then featured in a radio program for the university radio “Radio Micro Europa”.

Join our editorial team! Write an e-mail or a teams message to Chiara-Fabienne Gehrig. We look forward to seeing you!
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