| INVESTIGATE!WRITE!CLICK!PRINT!A Children's
Workshop on Media and Environment
ORGANISED BY THE CENTRE FOR SCIENCE
AND ENVIRONMENT
Concerned about the worsening environment in and around your town? Want
to do something about it? Get out there all you budding journalists, put on your green
editors thinking caps, pen and notebook in hand, cameras around your neck…and get
ready to muddy your feet!
Produce your very own Gobar Times, the childrens' supplement to India's leading
science and environment fortnightly magazine Down To Earth, on your town or city.
INVESTIGATE! pressing environmental issues of
your town or region as a reporter for Gobar Times.
WRITE!
about it in your very own Gobar Times special issue.
CLICK! photographs
or draw to illustrate your story.
PRINT!
your Gobar Times special issue. Inform your readers. Help make a difference.
Be a young Gobar
Times environmental journalist.
The Workshop: A 3-4 day event for school going children from Class VI onwards. Children will
constitute the Gobar Times editorial gang of young reporters, editors,
photo-journalists and designers to produce a complete special issue on the environment of
their town, city or region. They will understand not just environmental issues but the
role of a responsible media in bringing about change. The young reporters will be guided
by media professionals with years of experience in environmental communications. A hand on
experience about how a newspaper is edited, designed and produced.
The Organisers: Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) is a New Delhi based non-profit
organisation researching and disseminating information on issues of environment and
development. It also helps publish India's leading fortnightly news magazine on science
and environment Down To Earth. CSE will team up with a local school, NGO or
organisation who will co-host this workshop in their town or city.
Gobar Times: is the bi-monthly childrens' supplement to the magazine Down To Earth
Contact: To know more on how you can participate or co-host this workshop in your town or
city contact:
Rustam Vania, Coordinator
The Environment Education Unit
CSE 41,Tughlakabad Institutional Area
New Delhi - 110062 Ph: 2608 6399/3394
Fax: 26085879 E-mail: rustam@cseindia.org |
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Down To Earth Supplement
