SIGNUS Ecovalor and the EFE Agency School of Journalism have launched the third edition of the EFE-SIGNUS Cristina Yuste Environmental Journalism Scholarship, which focuses on promoting specialisation in environmental journalism and improving the quality of reporting on waste management
Miguel Ángel Oliver, President of the EFE Agency, and Carlos Prieto Menéndez, Director General of SIGNUS Ecovalor, signed the collaboration protocol for the scholarship, designed to provide young students with practical training in environmental reporting alongside professionals from EFEverde, the EFE Agency’s environmental news and journalism platform.
Applications for the scholarship open today, 18 September, with the initiative reflecting the shared commitment of SIGNUS Ecovalor and the EFE Agency to training new professionals in an area that is becoming increasingly relevant to society.
Miguel Ángel Oliver said the scholarship aims to strengthen journalistic specialisation in complex issues, where there is a need for high-quality information and journalists capable of communicating it to the public with rigour.
The EFE president added that the programme, which has now been running for 13 years, has demonstrated how useful it is to young journalists by helping them gain access to the labour market, highlighting that it forms part of the EFE Agency’s commitment to in-house training and to rigour, effort and dedication in specialised areas.
For SIGNUS Ecovalor, the initiative is part of its corporate social responsibility programme linked to both sustainability and the training of journalists in environmental reporting. Carlos Prieto stressed the importance of training and specialising young journalists in sustainability to ensure the accuracy and rigour of the information reaching society.
At the presentation of the first edition, the programme’s organisers agreed that high-quality specialised information is one of the most effective tools for environmental education and awareness, emphasising that environmental reporting is a highly specialised field whose complexity requires professionals capable of explaining these issues accurately and effectively.
In 2024, the scholarship was renamed the Cristina Yuste Specialisation Scholarship in Environmental Journalism, in tribute to EFE journalist Cristina Yuste, who died in June 2021, regarded as a leading figure in environmental reporting and an example of rigour, professionalism and accessibility. The EFE Agency and SIGNUS said that associating her name with the initiative would help preserve her legacy while providing young journalists with a model of excellence in the field of environmental journalism.
