The fellowship will support “the production of in-depth and creative narratives focused on the country’s accelerating transition towards modern energy systems,” the organizer of the program, climate and energy policy group Institute for Climate and Sustainable Cities , said in a statement on Monday, June 27.
The fellowship honors the late veteran journalist and former chairperson of the National Union of Journalists of the Philippines Jose Jaime “Nonoy” Espina,During the fellowship, Fabro and Geronimo will work together on a story on how solar energy empowers the Pala’wan indigenous women basket weavers of Kamantian, a remote village in the Mt. Mantalingahan Protected Landscape in southern Palawan.
The journalists will also gain access to experts and analysts working with the ICSC. They are expected to work on and submit revised story proposals by the end of July, after the online course, and begin their reporting in August. During the evaluation of applications, all panelists with conflict of interest inhibited from evaluating these specific pitches. It was the first thing raised by editors in the panel even before the call for submissions went out.
Fabro and Geronimo have worked together on several environment stories for Rappler. More recently, they were