Our programs
Mongabay is an independent media organization reporting on nature and planetary challenges with a global network of local journalists. Our programs are entirely focused on journalism because sharing knowledge through stories can inform, inspire and sustain effective action worldwide.
News Bureaus
Mongabay is a globally distributed virtual newsroom with many specialized teams. Our bureaus are organized by geography and each consist of a team that includes multiple roles, such as editors, writers, multimedia producers and directors.
Reporting Desks
Mongabay’s reporting desks organize news coverage of global themes or “beats,” such as oceans or Indigenous affairs, and specialized reporting approaches like investigative and solutions journalism. A “reporting desk” describes a team of editors, writers and researchers with consistent roles and responsibilities, which enables Mongabay to mobilize a larger editorial staff.
Special Reporting Projects
Special Reporting Projects enable a diversity of journalists (staff, contributors, and partner outlets) to create new original reporting that shares a common theme. Please review active reporting projects to understand Mongabay’s current editorial interests and to approach editors with more specific story ideas.
COP29 from an African Lens
Indigenous peoples, local communities and conservation
Tropical Forests
Fisheries
Coastal Climate Solutions
Apes
Multimedia (Studio)
Mongabay’s supports multimedia journalists across the newsroom with a global team of videographers, producers, editors, designers, and engineers dedicated to create news stories in the formats our audience needs.
Network Building
Mongabay’s role as a publisher makes journalists our most engaged community to support. By directly providing job opportunities that otherwise would not exist, Mongabay’s highest commitment is to the staff, contributors, interns, fellows and other people working with the newsroom. This commitment helps provide a credible career path for environmental journalists in countries where independent reporting is often needed most. Building on these fundamental relationships, Mongabay is expanding the types of support it provides to journalists to include capacity building and, more broadly, improve the professional qualities of current and future journalists so that the media industry is more ready to meet new challenges and needs.
