{"id":4214,"date":"2019-02-27T14:03:08","date_gmt":"2019-02-27T19:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/metcalfinstitute.org\/?p=4214"},"modified":"2025-09-02T12:43:35","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T16:43:35","slug":"sebastien-malo-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/metcalf\/sebastien-malo-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Sebastien Malo"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Sebastien Malo picked up a newspaper for the first time at the age of seven and was hooked.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI would sit at the dinner table in my dad\u2019s chair and read the newspaper from cover to cover,\u201d says Malo, an alumnus of Metcalf Institute\u2019s 20th Annual Science Immersion Workshop for Journalists. \u201cWhile most kids wanted to be truck drivers and firefighters, I wanted to be a journalist.\u201d<\/p>\n

Malo followed his dream but took a slightly unusual route. After earning a master\u2019s degree in international affairs from the Graduate Institute of International Studies in Geneva, Switzerland, he joined the United Nations Political and Human Rights Division as part of Canada\u2019s diplomatic corps. Malo was at the center of international politics where he actively participated in multilateral negotiations as a junior policy officer.<\/p>\n

\u201cI found my international affairs experience invaluable,\u201d says Malo of his years spent in the diplomatic corps. \u201cI think it really enriched my understanding of a lot of policy debates today.\u201d<\/p>\n

However, he never lost sight of the dream that took root at his family\u2019s dinner table. \u201cI wanted to start working in journalism,\u201d he says. \u201cI was at a crossroads.\u201d<\/p>\n

Two weeks later, Malo landed a job at The Daily Star, an English language newspaper in Beirut, Lebanon, where he covered a range of topics including Middle East politics and the Arab-Israeli conflict.<\/p>\n

Malo went on to write for The New York World, an investigative news website, The Guardian, Time.com, The Atlantic, and La Presse, a newspaper based in Montreal, Canada.<\/p>\n

He now writes stories for the Reuters newswire as a climate correspondent, a promotion he credits Metcalf\u2019s Annual Workshop with helping him secure. In fact, his editor at Reuters strongly encouraged Malo to apply for the fellowship stating \u201cthis is the workshop to attend!\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe fellowship reinforced in the eyes of my employer that I was really dedicated to climate change and to acquiring the necessary knowledge to properly cover the topic,\u201d says Malo, whose stories reach an estimated 13 million readers a month. \u201cIt was among the best fellowships I\u2019ve done.\u201d<\/p>\n

Malo particularly appreciated a workshop field trip to a salt marsh on the Rhode Island coast where the journalists saw the impacts of sea level rise and observed a coastal wetlands restoration project. \u201cI was not super familiar with issues surrounding the importance of preserving marshlands,\u201d says Malo. \u201cSeeing it with my own eyes as opposed to reading about it in a report made it much more tangible and interesting to me,\u201d he explains. Malo drew on lessons learned at Metcalf\u2019s workshop for an article he wrote for Reuters about efforts to restore Louisiana\u2019s eroding shoreline using recycled oyster shells to create manmade reefs. \u201cThe aim is to stop Louisiana\u2019s shoreline crumbling away at the current rate of a football field every 100 minutes,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n

Malo has an opportunity to use the science knowledge he gained from Metcalf and his vast policy experience as he covers climate change on an international scale at the Conference of the Parties of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, or COP24, in Poland.<\/p>\n

\u201cClimate change is the ultimate political dilemma of our times because of the question of survival,\u201d says Malo. \u201cI find it extremely important to try to interest people in talking about climate change and to try to get them to reevaluate their daily lives and choices,\u201d says Malo.<\/p>\n

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