CERN is an organisation for journalists who are interested in improving environmental reporting and communication in the Caribbean. Founded in 1993, CERN is a non-profit, non-governmental group of mass communication professionals. CERN seeks to facilitate exchange of news and provide information, resources, training, and reporting opportunities to journalists, producers, news organisations, and NGOs in the Caribbean.
In collaboration with a non-profit information NGO, Panos Institute, CERN has developed training workshops and produced fact sheets, print features, and radio programmes on a myriad of environmental phenomena in the region.
Every weekday morning at 9:00 on the radio, CERN’s IslandBeat series broadcasts stories on people and their environment. IslandBeat reaches listeners throughout the English-speaking Caribbean. In addition, there is the printed IslandBeat series for regional newspapers, which documents community solutions to environmental problems and has been translated to accommodate other languages in the region including Creole, French, and Spanish. CERN also hosts a free exchange service for news photographs.
For more information, see http://www.cernnet.net or contact secretariat@cernnet.net