Internews initially developed the Earth Journalism Network (EJN) in 2004 to enable journalists from low and middle-income countries to cover the environment more effectively.

EJN trains journalists to cover a wide variety of issues, including climate change, biodiversity, the ocean, and One Health.

[1] Both independently and in partnership with other organizations, the Earth Journalism Network awards fellowships to journalists which allow them to attend conferences within the field of environmentalism.

In particular, EJN’s Climate Change Media Partnership, currently run together with the Stanley Center for Peace and Security based in Muscatine, Iowa, has brought more than 500 journalists to the UNFCCC Conferences of the Parties (COPs) since 2007.

Oudom had been covering illegal logging activities for the local newspaper Vorakchun Khmer Daily when his body was discovered with several axe blows to the head.