As part of the Knight Center’s “Inside the Newsroom” virtual series, reporters and editors from the region will discuss finding, verifying and interpreting data to cover the climate.
Natural disasters, extreme heat, drought, deforestation, illegal mining and logging.
These are just a few of the topics data journalists are covering to tell the story of climate change in Latin America.
Two new 90-minute roundtables from the Knight Center will take you behind these stories with the data reporters and editors who produced them.
As part of “Inside the Newsroom: How to use data to cover climate change,” leading Latin American journalists will explain how they found and wrangled data to cover climate change reliably and truthfully.
Participants will learn how to find relevant data for covering climate change using AI and open source and open access tools for information gathering. The presenters will demonstrate how to verify data reliability and avoid common errors. Finally, you will discover practical ways to organize, interpret and contextualize this information, making it clear and relevant to the public.
Registration is open for the Portuguese roundtable, taking place Wednesday, May 26, 2026 at 3 p.m. (Brasília time) Find your local time here.
The discussion will be moderated by Daniel Nardin, CEO of AmazôniaVox. Nardin will be joined by panelists:
Registration is also open for the Spanish roundtable, taking place on Thursday, May 28, at 11:30 a.m. CDT. Find your local time here.
Fermín Koop, Argentine journalist and managing editor for Latin America at Dialogue Earth, will moderate the session, featuring panelists:
The roundtables are part of “Inside the Newsroom,” a new virtual series addressing innovation and opportunities in Latin American journalism that is being organized by the Knight Center’s online learning program Journalism Courses and its digital magazine LatAm Journalism Review (LJR).
The series is free and those who attend the live sessions will be eligible to receive a certificate of participation. The recordings of the sessions will also be available on the Knight Center’s YouTube channel.
The first two roundtables in the “Inside the Newsroom” series addressed how artificial intelligence is transforming journalism in Latin America. Video recordings and coverage of each session that took place in Spanish and Portuguese are available.
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