Who are our users

Nearly 6,000 subscribers have signed up for a CLEW newsletter, some 2,850 of them get the daily briefing. Over 4,200 have opted for the weekly overview, which includes our Dispatches from the EU, France, Italy, Poland, Croatia and Germany with the most relevant energy and climate developments. Together with CLEW's sister project klimafakten, the 2050 Media Project gGmbH reaches nearly 15,000 newsletter subscribers.

Our user survey showed that the journalists who use our website are experienced professionals from all types of media, mostly focusing on energy and climate topics.

Our other users work for a wide range of employers, from companies and business associations to NGOs and government agencies. Their main interests are energy, climate and sustainability topics.

Our website gets about 150,000 users a month (Q3/2024) from all over the world, with visitors from the United States, Germany and the United Kingdom accounting for the largest share.

Some 500 journalists have signed up to our growing CLEW Journalism Network, seeking opportunities to exchange ideas and information with colleagues or to team up for joint projects. Each year, some 200 journalists participate in our various on- and off-line workshops, and our team supports around 100 international colleagues in their research for articles directly with contacts and up-to-date material. In total, CLEW has worked with over 1,500 individual journalists from across the globe and from all types of media since our launch in 2014.