Workshop Report

In January 2026, Surge Africa hosted six Nigerian journalists in the city of Abuja, Nigeria throught the Hands-on Workshop On Curating Impact Stories, as part of the Climate Reporting Gap Fellowship, a collaboration between Surge Africa and One World Media.

The fellowship emerged from a shared frustration: Nigerian newspapers reproducing international press releases as local reporting, climate stories recycled with only one sentence changed across multiple publications, a media culture that mistakes formality for investigation.

Over two days, the six fellows - Amir Sadiq, Ini Ekott, Vivian Chime, Adesewa Olofinko, Lami Sadiq, and Manasseh Mbachii - worked alongside facilitators Isaac Botti (Program Coordinator, Climate and Emergencies at Social Action Nigeria) , Khadija Kareem (Head Policy Research Communications at Dataphyte), Titilope Fadare (Multimedia Journalist), Bukola Adebayo (Investigative Journalist at Thomson Reuters Foundation/Context News), and Oghosa Egbenho (Visual Storyteller). They underwent a shift in how they understand climate journalism itself.