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The stakes of energy reporting have never been higher. The onset of AI, the impact of climate change, and the rise of ongoing geopolitical tensions have made the subject of energy central to politics, economic growth, technology, and today’s defining issues.
For a decade, the Energy Journalism Fellows program has been giving working journalists the specialized understanding they need to report on one of the most consequential topics of our time. Since 2017, the program has helped train 200 journalists from newsrooms across the globe — journalists whose reporting reaches millions of readers navigating decisions about climate, energy security, and economic opportunity.
Energy is a critical component of almost every major issue — geopolitics, markets, technology, affordability, and climate change — facing the world today. Yet too few journalists have direct access and the opportunity to engage with experts in the field. EJF solves that problem by pairing working reporters with Columbia faculty, CGEP scholars, and leading industry and government experts for an intensive, four-day program that sharpens the accuracy and depth of their coverage.
Since the program’s founding, our alumni have brought what they learned from the fellowship in some of the most influential newsrooms in the world, including the New York Times, Financial Times, NPR, Reuters, Bloomberg, POLITICO, the Associated Press, and dozens more. After attending the program, many reporters have gone on to lead energy and climate coverage at their respective organizations.
Fellowships are awarded through a competitive review process to working journalists covering energy, climate, and related fields including but not restricted to economics, policy, science, and geopolitics. EJF fully covers travel and lodging for every fellow selected.
As EJF marks its 10th year, the need for well-informed energy journalism is only growing. To learn about supporting the program or to discuss partnership opportunities, contact Nikia Cartwright at [email protected].
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Maeve Allsup is the founding reporter at Latitude Media, an integrated B2B news, events, and production company focused on the energy transition. She has helped build Latitude's coverage of U.S. clean energy policy, grid modernization, and AI infrastructure demands. Maeve previously covered tech policy and electric vehicles for Morning Brew, and spent several years as a California correspondent for Bloomberg Law.
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/maeve-allsup/
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Drew Anderson is a Calgary-based journalist with The Narwhal, covering energy and the environment on the Canadian Prairies. His work focuses on the intersection of climate, politics and energy from his home base in the heart of the country's oilpatch. That work encompasses everything from the impacts of oil and gas regulation on landowners and First Nations, to the pressure of grid modernization and the socio-economic strains of decarbonization.
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Chloe Bennett-Steele covers the environment and science for StateImpact Oklahoma, a collaboration between four NPR member stations. Chloe reports on the oil and gas industry, the expansion of wind and solar and the state’s exploration of nuclear energy. She also covers utilities, climate change and wildlife. Before StateImpact, Chloe was a climate change reporter for Adirondack Explorer, an environmental magazine in Saranac Lake, New York. She holds a master’s degree from the City University of New York, where she studied science journalism.
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Catherine Cartier is a Visual Verification Producer at Reuters, based in Beirut. She uses visual documentation to report on breaking news, energy, and conflict. Before joining Reuters, she covered oil markets at Bloomberg and interned at CNN. She is the recipient of an Overseas Press Club Scholar Award (2024), an alumna of the Fellowship at Auschwitz for the Study of Professional Ethics, and a former Pulitzer Center fellow. Catherine speaks Arabic and is a graduate of New York University's Global Journalism program and Davidson College.
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/catherine-cartier-2a2142112/
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Lana Ferguson is a business reporter at The Dallas Morning News, covering energy and natural resources. She is a graduate of the University of Mississippi's journalism school and previously covered South Carolina's Lowcountry for The Island Packet and Beaufort Gazette newspapers. She hails from Virginia, but her work has taken her all over the U.S., southern Africa, and Sri Lanka.
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Steven Grattan is The Associated Press’ Amazon rainforest and deforestation reporter, covering climate and energy issues across Latin America, including fossil fuels, environmental policy and Indigenous rights. An Irish native, he previously worked as a breaking news reporter for Reuters in Brazil and has reported across the region since 2013 for outlets including The New York Times, The Washington Post and BBC News. He also co-founded the English-language newspaper The Bogotá Post and holds an MA in human rights and global ethics from the University of Leicester.
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Joey Harris covers state government and economic development at the Indianapolis Business Journal where he reports on utilities, data centers and carbon capture, among other topics. He previously worked for three years in North Dakota as the energy and environment reporter at the Bismarck Tribune. In North Dakota, Harris primarily focused on the state's oil industry and industrial efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuels.
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Sameer Hashmi is an independent journalist covering energy, business and geopolitics across the Gulf and South Asia. He spent seven years as the BBC’s Middle East Business Correspondent, where he established and led the broadcaster’s Gulf bureau, reporting on global energy markets, OPEC policy and economic transformation across the region for television, radio and digital audiences. Prior to that, he spent more than a decade as the BBC’s India Business Correspondent, covering business, energy and economic developments across South Asia. He continues to report on the Gulf for the BBC and other international news organisations.
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Coco Liu covers all aspects of climate change for Bloomberg News, with a special focus on climate technology. Based in New York, she joined Bloomberg following a decade of reporting on business and the environment across 13 countries in Asia. In 2024, she was part of a Bloomberg team named Pulitzer Prize finalists for a series on corporate use of public water.
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Pietro Lombardi is an energy and climate reporter at Reuters, based in Madrid. He covers politics, policy and corporate strategies with a focus on the Iberian region. Pietro grew up in the province of Naples, Italy, where he began his career in journalism writing for a local paper. He is a Fulbright alumnus and holds a master’s degree in journalism from American University in Washington, D.C.
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CNBC International
Sam Meredith is a Senior Correspondent at CNBC International in London, covering geopolitics, climate change and the energy transition. Sam has reported from the factory floor of Europe’s largest rare earths facility on Russia’s doorstep, traveled to Oslo to cover Norway’s electric vehicle transition and covered United Nations climate talks from Scotland to Egypt.
Sam’s reporting typically covers European corporates in the oil and gas, renewables and automotive sectors. He has also presented short documentaries on issues such as Big Tech’s “thirsty” AI boom, climate risks in the real estate sector and the degrowth movement.
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The Independent
Stuti Mishra is Asia Climate Correspondent at The Independent where she covers climate, environment, and energy. Based in Delhi, she has reported on solar deployment, coal-dependent communities, carbon markets, climate finance and fossil fuel policy, alongside ground reporting on extreme weather and its human consequences. She has covered four UN climate summits, as well as plastics and biodiversity negotiations. Stuti is also a TedX speaker, a Climate Justice Fellow and a graduate of the Oxford Climate Journalism Network at the Reuters Institute.
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Carlos Nogueras Ramos is a regional reporter based in Odessa. In 2023, he joined The Texas Tribune as a corps member with Report for America. He tells the stories of Texas from the vast oil-rich Permian Basin region, where he documents the oil and gas industry’s reverberating impacts on the Texas economy, environment and how it helps shape energy markets writ large.
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Meghan Potkins is the Alberta correspondent for The Logic. Previously, she spent more than four years covering the energy sector at the Financial Post, where she broke stories on Canada's oil sands and pipeline companies and reported extensively on the economic and policy implications of decarbonization. She studied journalism at Carleton University in Ottawa and holds a degree in political science from the University of Alberta.
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Clavel Rangel Jiménez is a Venezuelan investigative journalist with more than 15 years of experience covering extractive industries, labor movements, corruption, migration, and human rights across Latin America and the United States. Her reporting has focused extensively on the political economy of mining and state-owned industries in Venezuela, particularly in the Guayana region—home to the country’s steel, aluminum, and gold sectors.
She is the co-founder of the Venezuelan Amazon Journalists Network, an initiative that promotes investigative journalism in southern Venezuela. Rangel began her career at Correo del Caroní, an award-winning regional newspaper in southern Venezuela, where she reported on industry, labor, and corruption. She later worked as a correspondent for El Nacional and El Pitazo, served as Editor-in-Chief of the Spanish-language newsletter Soy Arepita, and was a Senior Editor at El Tiempo Latino in Washington, D.C.
Her work has been published in The Guardian, Chicago Health Magazine, and Armando.info, among other outlets. She is currently a Knight-Wallace Fellow at the University of Michigan.
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Bloomberg News
Nathan Risser is a reporter covering oil and energy for Bloomberg News. Based in Colorado, he writes about commodity markets, the companies and people behind them and how policy and geopolitical events shape the industry. Before joining Bloomberg, he was a senior correspondent at Argus Media in Houston, Texas, and has freelanced for publications like New York Magazine and The Spectator. He holds a degree in philosophy from Durham University.
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Noah Schwartz is a Washington, DC-based reporter for S&P Global covering utilities and energy policy in the Northeast US. He has a master's degree in security policy studies from George Washington University. In his free time, he is passionate about reading and the Boston Celtics.
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Hayley Smith is an environment reporter at the Los Angeles Times covering climate policy, technology and solutions. Her recent work examines how federal environmental actions are shaping California’s clean energy transition. She previously worked on the breaking news team. Originally from Miami, Hayley holds a master's degree in journalism from the University of Southern California.
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Lucas Smolcic Larson is an investigative reporter for MLive, a statewide news organization in Michigan, with a focus on energy and utilities. Since joining MLive in 2021, Lucas has also covered statewide environmental news and local government in and around Ann Arbor, where he lives. Previously, he was an investigative projects reporter at the Hilton Head Island Packet, where his stories documented how powerful South Carolina lawmakers funneled taxpayer money to causes tied to their relatives and revealed how drunk drivers routinely escape conviction. Lucas speaks Spanish and Portuguese.
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The program will take place at the Center on Global Energy Policy, Columbia University SIPA in New York City.
EJF will cover the costs of air or train travel and hotel lodging.
The program strives to impart specialist knowledge that will help reporters look deeper at the stories they cover in a more holistic, integrated way. While we do not expect participants will emerge as experts in the topics addressed, they should have greater awareness of said topics and how they relate, thus creating the potential for fuller stories in the future.
Please note that this program does not teach basic journalism skills, as that is outside the goals of the program and expertise of the lecturers. The program also does not assign stories to reporters, or participate in any reporting efforts.
Energy Journalism Fellows seminars are taught by Columbia faculty and scholars as well as other academic, private-sector and government experts. To promote an educational experience, the seminar is conducted under the Chatham House Rule.
Topics cover a range of issues such as global oil, natural gas and electricity markets, technology, policy, geopolitics, and energy access and affordability, and climate change.
The program will strive to ensure that sessions are interactive and participatory. A lecture format will be used sparingly. Reading materials will be distributed in advance of the seminar.
The program is open to journalists covering energy, climate, and other related topics for print, online, and broadcast media.
No, this program is specifically designed for currently working journalists.
Yes.
We welcome applications from journalists in other fields. If you don’t currently cover energy or the environment, please describe how these energy policy issues impact your area of expertise and include any relevant writing samples.
A Review Committee will look at the applications of all candidates and, from those who meet all the requirements, make its selections.
No, this is not a certificate or degree program.
No, you will not be considered a Columbia student.
Yes. You must submit one letter of recommendation from your direct supervisor.
Yes, freelance journalists can apply, although they will need a letter of recommendation from an editor for whom they have done reporting. All other conditions must still be met.
Evaluation Form
Participants in the program will be expected to complete an evaluation form examining the topics and sessions, which will be consulted in improving the program going forward.
Six-month Report
The participants will also be required to produce a brief report six months after the seminar that explains how EJF affected reporting on energy and environmental issues during the intervening period and references 2-4 articles that illustrate the program’s impact.
Manager Questionnaire
In addition, the participant’s direct manager will be required to fill out a short questionnaire at this same six-month period after the seminar to provide an independent assessment of the progress of the reporter, and whether the manager believes that EJF contributed to those gains. Managers will be made aware of this requirement when they sign off on the attendance of their reporters.
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Bill Loveless is a host on the Columbia Energy Exchange and Director of CGEP's Energy Journalism Initiative. He is a senior energy journalist with nearly 40 years of experience covering energy policy, regulation, and business from the Carter administration to the Trump administration.
Bill spent most of his career at The McGraw-Hill Companies (now S&P Global) as a reporter, editor and editorial director for Platts, an international provider of energy news and prices, and other McGraw-Hill energy news services. From 2010 to 2014, he anchored “Platts Energy Week,” a weekly TV program that aired on the CBS affiliate in Washington, D.C., and on PBS stations across the U.S.
He is a recipient of the McGraw-Hill Companies Corporate Achievement Award.
From 2015 to 2017, Bill wrote a weekly column for USA Today focusing on energy policy, business and technology trends.
A graduate of the University of Rhode Island, Bill began his career as a newspaper reporter in Rhode Island. He is a member of the Harrington School of Communications and Media Executive Advisory Board at URI.
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Nikia Cartwright is an Associate Director of Strategy and Board Operations at the Center on Global Energy Policy, Columbia SIPA.
Nikia has over 20 years of experience working in the administrative space. Prior to joining CGEP, she worked at HPS Investment Advisors as Executive Assistant to a Founding Partner; Senior Executive Assistant and Administrative Manager for the Healthcare group at Deutsche Bank; and Administrative Assistant for the Capital Markets group at Credit Suisse. Personal and intellectual interests include: Environmental studies, diversity and inclusion, and cycling.
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Alice Manos is the Associate Director of Social Media and Content at the Center on Global Energy Policy at Columbia University SIPA. She most recently served as Digital Content Coordinator at American University, leading student life communication operations through social media, web, video, and photography.
Prior to that, she developed her digital storytelling skills at the international nonprofit World Food Program USA, a U.S. fundraising branch of the United Nations World Food Programme.
Alice holds an M.A. in Strategic Communication from American University and a B.A. in Public Communication with a minor in Spanish. As a dual French-American citizen, she grew up in Paris before moving to college in the U.S. and is fluent in French and Spanish.
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Kyu Lee is director of marketing and communications at the Center on Global Energy Policy where he leads efforts to showcase and advance the center’s work around the world’s most pressing energy issues.
Kyu has been working for more than 20 years in strategic communications. Prior he was an associate director of communications and marketing for the Earth Institute at Columbia University. There he helped lead outreach efforts across a range of areas including media relations, partnership development, social media, and digital strategy. Kyu joined the Earth Institute in 2007 to bring attention to the work of the Millennium Villages, a project that spanned 10 different countries in sub-Saharan Africa focused on demonstrating the Millennium Development Goals could be achieved. Since then he's developed core strategies and campaigns to promote Columbia's work in the fields of sustainable development, poverty alleviation, and climate change.
He first worked on climate change issues in 1992 when he traveled to the Rio Earth Summit as an intern for a newspaper. After graduating, he traveled to all the major UN global conferences during the 90s as a photographer, operations manager, editor, and writer. He's visited more than 30 countries and written on sustainable development issues throughout the world.
He lives on the Upper West Side with his wife and daughter. He is an avid birder and you can find him early in the morning during the spring and fall in Central Park. He is a member of the Board of Directors for NYC Bird Alliance. He graduated from the University of Chicago with a degree in English Literature.
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The Center on Global Energy Policy (CGEP) at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs today announced the journalists who have been selected for the 2026 Energy...
The Center on Global Energy Policy (CGEP) at Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs today announced this year's cohort of journalists selected for the 2025 Energy...
The program will be held on Columbia University’s campus in NYC from June 10-13, 2025.
The program will be held on Columbia University’s campus in NYC from June 11-14, 2024.