This year’s General Assembly, with over 13,500 presentations and more than 11,200 participating scientists, was one of the most successful to date. In addition to its scientific achievements, the conference also saw keen media participation and reporting.

The Press Centre, run for the first time by EGU’s Media and Communications Officer Bárbara Ferreira, welcomed over 40 media participants, including journalists, press officers, science writers, and EGU guest bloggers. The Centre hosted 12 press conferences on topics ranging from flood disasters and sea-level rise to mitigation of tsunami risk and space weather. The conferences were not only well attended by the journalists at the Assembly, but also had hundreds of live views via a webstreaming link.

This year’s General Assembly, with over 13,500 presentations and more than 11,200 participating scientists, was one of the most successful to date. In addition to its scientific achievements, the conference also saw keen media participation and reporting.

Media participants attended press conferences and scientific sessions, interviewed scientists, and reported extensively on the General Assembly. The EGU conference has featured in over 100 online, print and radio articles published by the BBC, Bloomberg News, Spiegel, among others. News agencies such as Agence France-Presse, Austria Presse Agentur, and the Spanish Agencia EFE also extensively covered research presented at the General Assembly.

The EGU is grateful to all those who worked at the Press Centre, in particular Tim Middleton, Julia Wöger, Celso Gomes, and Suzanne Voice, as well as for everyone at the conference-organiser Copernicus, especially Katja Gänger. Thank you also to the scientists who participated in this year’s press conferences and, of course, to the hard-working journalists the EGU had the pleasure to host.