Open Call: Climate Digital Storytelling Accelerator

This tuition-free, six-week virtual workshop helps reporters who cover climate stories for local news outlets with little or no video experience turn their reporting into engaging content for TikTok, Instagram, and/or YouTube Shorts. No prior video experience is needed.

Through a hands-on, supportive training, not lectures, you’ll learn by doing—developing a story you’re already working on into a polished, ready-to-post digital video. Along the way, you’ll build confidence using simple, mobile-first storytelling techniques with guidance from instructors, peers, and guest creators.

By the end, you’ll have one or two finished videos, a repeatable workflow, and a clear plan to share your work with your audience.

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Seats are limited, and the first workshop is slated to begin Tuesday, May 12th, at 12:00 PM ET. 

Application Deadline

April 24th, 2026

Eligibility 

This training is open to reporters across the United States, including those working in Puerto Rico, Guam, and the U.S. Virgin Islands, who will publish with local news outlets.

Course Instructors

Eli Kintisch

Science video journalist Eli Kintisch is the Ted Turner Professor of Environmental Media at George Washington University. His work has been published by Science, Vox, PBS, The Washington Post, Scientific American, MIT Technology Review, and other outlets.

Ryan Y. Kellett

Ryan is a former media executive and co-founder of The Independent Journalism Atlas. He was most recently VP, Audience, at Axios Media and spent 11 years in The Washington Post's newsroom. He teaches at Harvard Extension School and is a co-founder of the "Going Solo" course for traditional journalists making the leap to be content creators.