Report for the World is pleased to announce the selection of 18
new host newsrooms, expanding our global network to 49 newsrooms in
28 countries.
BOSTON, April 17,
2024 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Report for the World
is pleased to announce the selection of 18 new host
newsrooms, expanding our global network to 49 newsrooms in 28
countries. In addition to our newest partners, we are deepening our
ties to existing countries while further expanding our reach to
vulnerable, in-exile newsrooms.
"With the addition of newsrooms and the
expansion of our current partnerships, we've reached a point of
balance between our regional reach and the impact that we can have
through multiple national partners," said Wilson Liévano, Report
for the World's training director.
"This year, we continued to expand in our first countries of
support, India and Brazil, which are both headed to the polls at
national and municipal levels. With 2024 being a prime election
year, we would like to deepen accountability focused reporting over
the coming political terms in countries where we operate," said
Preethi Nallu, Report for the
World's executive director. "We have also started to award
additional roles among our existing newsroom partners, so we may
deepen our relationships with them. We have found that reporters
that we support within newsrooms often collaborate on their
reporting, creating more intersectional coverage of their
beats."
Report for the World leaned into several partners to help
identify independent newsrooms that can strengthen the global
journalism program's efforts at a regional level. These partners
included the Brazilian Association of Investigative Journalism
(Latin America), Arab Reporters
for Investigative Journalism (Middle
East and North Africa),
Wits Centre for Journalism (Africa), and Splice Media (Asia).
Among the newly-selected are five Pacific Island newsrooms as
part of the Financial Investigative Reporting and Mentorship
Initiative (FIRM) in partnership with the East-West Center. FIRM is
designed to boost the capacity of local, independent media in the
Indo-Pacific region to undertake in-depth and consistent reporting
on financial transactions that can have major impacts on a
country's economic and political systems.
Report for the World is expanding its efforts to create a strong
media-in-exile hub with the addition of three newsrooms reporting
on Iraq, Syria and Venezuela.
"With the addition of newsrooms and the expansion of our current
partnerships, we've reached a point of balance between our regional
reach and the impact that we can have through multiple national
partners," said Wilson Liévano, Report for the World's training
director. "By reinforcing our commitment to existing newsrooms
we're fostering collaborations between complementary beats while
adding key positions in countries that strengthen the diversity and
expertise of our program in every region."
Report for the World will provide salary and training support;
however, the newsrooms will remain editorially independent. We look
forward to working with the newsrooms over the coming weeks as they
hire our next cohort of corps members, growing our reporting corps
from 45 to 66 journalists.
The newly selected newsrooms are:
- Brazil: Alma Preta. Beat: Early childhood issues for
Black communities
- Colombia: Cuestión Pública.
Beat: Investigative journalism
- India: Suno India. Beat:
Gender and climate
- India: The Caravan Magazine.
Beat: Democratic institutions and constitutional issues
- India: Reporters Collective.
Beat: Data investigations
- India: Behan Box. Beat: Women and Work
- Iraq (In exile): Jummar. Beat:
Climate change and gender
- Jordan: ARIJ. Beat: Data
journalism
- Lebanon: Daraj. Beat: Water
and climate change
- Pakistan: The Centrum Media.
Beat: Gender
- Peru: Salud con Lupa. Beat:
Health and environment
- Syria (in exile): Rozana
Radio. Beat: Humanitarian crisis and displacement
- Venezuela (In exile):
Armando.Info. Beat: Investigative Journalism
Current newsrooms receiving further support:
- Brazil: Agencia Mural. Beat:
Democracy and elections
- Mexico: Quinto Elemento Lab. Beat: Data journalism
- Russia: IStories. Beat: Video
editing
- South Africa: Sowetan. Beat:
Social justice
East-West Center Financial Investigations Partnership:
- Fiji: Fiji Times
- Fiji: Islands Business
- Papua New Guinea: Inside PNG
(2 reporters)
- Solomon Islands: In-Depth
Solomons
- Tonga: Talanoa O' Tonga
Report for the World is made possible by partners including
the MacArthur Foundation, Google News Initiative, Microsoft,
JournalismFund Europe, East-West Center, climateXchange, family
foundations and individual donors worldwide. To follow or support
Report for the World's work, visit reportfortheworld.org.
About us: Report for the World is a global journalism program
that supports full-time, beat-focused reporting positions for
public interest media. By creating a more sustainable and impactful
media ecosystem, Report for the World informs, engages, and enables
communities through public service journalism. Report for the World
is an initiative of The GroundTruth Project, an award-winning
nonprofit journalism organization dedicated to rebuilding
journalism from the ground up.
Media Contact
Sam Kille, Report for the World,
(631) 354-9190, skille@thegroundtruthproject.org,
www.reportfortheworld.org
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