News Decoder Podcasts

Jonestown, Guyana: Paradise on Earth is a student-made podcast, written, recorded and narrated by a student at a News Decoder partner institution in Ghana.

Jonestown, Guyana: Paradise on Earth is a student-made podcast, written, recorded and narrated by a student at a News Decoder partner institution in Ghana.

Jonestown, Guyana: Paradise on Earth is a student-made podcast, written, recorded and narrated by a student at a News Decoder partner institution in Ghana.

Jonestown, Guyana: Paradise on Earth is a student-made podcast, written, recorded and narrated by a student at a News Decoder partner institution in Ghana.

In EYES on Climate, we speak with educators, climate experts, and storytellers about how we can best provide youth with the tools to face the future of our planet. For this final episode of the podcast, we've brought in the very inspiring and magnetic Ada Lungu, founder of Volens Association in Romania, an organisation working with schools around the country to introduce projects in environmental...

The emotions around climate change felt by young people include not only fear and anxiety, but also hope, optimism, and care. Bénédicte Mouton from the Université Libre de Bruxelles prefers to call it climate sensitivity. In her latest study, Eco-Emois, she surveyed hundreds of young people in French-speaking Belgium about climate anxiety and the associated emotions, actions, and effects on their...

EYES on Climate is a podcast about climate education, as part of the Empowering Youth through Environmental Storytelling (EYES) project. EYES is an Erasmus+ co-funded project by The Environment and Human Rights Academy, News Decoder, and the Young Educators European Association. Host: Amina McCauley, News Decoder On 23 July 2025, the International Court of Justice unanimously affirmed that the com...

Anyone can produce and publish a podcast, but how? In this episode of EYES on Climate, we dive into how to produce climate stories for the ears. We focus on the idea and storytelling side of climate podcasting. For a complete guide on how to make a podcast, listen to News Decoder’s WePod Guide to Audio Storytelling: https://news-decoder.com/wepod/ We spoke with Josie Colter, founder and director o...

The power of storytelling in education is perhaps underappreciated. For this episode of EYES on Climate, we sat down with Emily Walker from EarthDay.org, and chatted about the mindset of the education system and where climate change should fit into the curriculum. EYES on Climate is a podcast on how educators can and should teach climate change. We talk with experts in education, climate, and jour...

We went to the London Podcast Show 2024 and spoke to podcast industry professionals to get their Top Tips for young people and budding journalists getting into podcasting.

Who you speak to shapes the language you use and the story you choose to tell. In this episode we look at some of the decisions you need to think about. We speak to Europod's Futura d'Aprile about the decisions she made throughout the WePod project.

Never recorded before? You might be asking yourself: What type of microphones should I use? What programs? And what are the main tools I need to use when editing? Here's an overview.

When you tell an audio story, your audience is blind. You'll need to plan for that. This episode goes back to basics on the things you need to think about before recording.

Who should you interview and where can you find those people? In this episode we dive into how to find people to interview and give top tips on how how to approach your interviews.

Telling stories is about connecting with people — and to connect you need to tell human stories. In this episode we breakdown how to tell a local or global story and with impact.

What makes a good story? What makes something worth listening to? What are the big things that you should be thinking about?

In this episode we introduce the WePod European Podcast project and partners and find out what the project is all about.

If you’re feeling anxious about climate change, you’re not alone. According to a study published in The Lancet, 84% of youth globally say they are at least moderately worried about climate change. 59% are very or extremely worried. Whether you’re a teacher who wants to help your students deal with the anxiety that might come with learning about climate change, or an individual struggling yourself,...

Tasmania, Australia’s island state, is powered entirely by renewable energy, thanks to its hydroelectric industry. Yet, tensions run deep between its proud green legacy—the birthplace of the world’s first Green political party—and ongoing political challenges as debates over conservation and development persist. In this episode, we explore how Tasmania is leading the way in climate education throu...

We open the series by talking with the experts closest to us – The Climate Academy’s founder Matthew Pye and News Decoder’s Educational News Director Marcy Burstiner. In a conversation on why we need to include systems understanding in school climate curricula and in the media coverage of the crisis, we touch on the myth of objectivity, why activating students’ knowledge through the tools of journ...

According to a study published in The Lancet, 84% of youth globally say they are at least moderately worried about climate change. 59% are very or extremely worried. The good news though is that having sufficient knowledge about climate change has shown to not only alleviate concern about climate change but also to drive young people’s willingness to act. So what are we waiting for? Only 53% of th...

Managing Director Maria Krasinski gives us a glimpse into News Decoder's future as we celebrate our eighth birthday. This episode of the Decoder Podcast was recorded as part of our June 2023 Giving Campaign. To support global connectedness and media literacy skill-building across the world, please visit: https://news-decoder.com/stories-without-borders/ Your support enables us to continue doing wo...

On this episode of the Decoder Podcast, we have a very special guest — outgoing News Decoder board member Janet Hartwell. Listen as she describes her decades of global teaching experience. Plus, get her take on what "good teaching" truly is.

Student author Clover Choi discusses writing and publishing for News Decoder and her experience studying abroad in France this year.

Student author Luna Lee discusses writing for News Decoder, her experience volunteering in China and what it is like to travel between cultures.