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Global Press Institute
Company typeNon-Governmental Organisation
IndustryJournalism, Social Entrepreneurship Women
Founded2006, United States
HeadquartersWashington DC, United States
Key people
Cristi Hegranes
ProductsTraining, employment, education.
Websitewww.globalpress.co

The Global Press Institute is a Washington DC-based 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization.[1] Global Press builds and maintains independent news bureaus in some of the world's least-covered places, staffed by local women journalists who are from their coverage communities and who produce exceptional journalism.[2] The organization identifies the social, historical and political context that these women possess as a factor distinguishing them from traditional foreign correspondents.[3][4][5][6][7]

The organization consists of three divisions: Global Press Institute, which focuses on training local women to become journalists in developing media markets; Global Press Journal, the organization's award-winning multilingual news publication; and Global Press News Services, which sells products and services, including a customized Duty of Care program, a Style Guide workshop, and access to our photo archive, to media, education, and corporate syndication partners.[8]

History

GPI was founded in 2006 by Cristi Hegranes, a young American journalist.[9] A year earlier, Hegranes had been working as a foreign correspondent in Nepal when she traveled to a rural eastern village, where she met the village matriarch, Pratima C.[10] While working with Pratima, Hegranes realized that she was better equipped to report the story because she had more cultural and historical context and had access to reliable sources.[11] [12] But, she realized, she herself had two things Pratima didn't: She had journalism training and an international platform on which to tell stories. She soon returned to the United States, quit her dream job, and asked everyone she knew for $40. With the $10,000 she raised, she founded Global Press Institute.[13][14]

In 2006 Hegranes performed the first GPI training in Chiapas, Mexico, where five women were trained in the principles and practice of traditional investigative journalism.[10] The stories, which covered topics such as AIDS, poverty, clandestine abortion and community development, were the first that were published by the Global Press Journal. Hegranes established a second news bureau in Nepal. As of 2022, the organization has trained and employed 250 journalists in 40 bureaus.[15] In addition to print journalism, GPI training includes photo and video journalism.[4][16][17]

Mission and Impact

Global Press creates a more informed and inclusive world by training and employing local women journalists to report news in their own communities, some of the world's least-covered places.[18][19]

GPI trainees are instructed in traditional investigative journalism. Their work addresses a variety of issues and stands in stark contrast with traditional foreign correspondence narratives, 97% of which center around four main issues: war, disease, disaster and poverty.[8]

GPI reporters have covered a range of issues such as caste discrimination and political rape.[20] Founder Hegranes has said more than 25 percent of GPI's reporting has created social change in the form of protests, attracting media attention, and helping to change laws in Nepal and Rwanda and some community policies in Zambia.[21]

Locations

GPJ currently has reporters operating in Argentina, Democratic Republic of Congo, Haiti, India, India-administered Kashmir, Mexico, Mongolia, Nepal, Puerto Rico, Sri Lanka, Uganda, United States (Washington, DC headquarters), Zambia and Zimbabwe.[22]

Training

Training is provided in the prospective journalist's local language and English is not a requirement.[23] Some GPI journalists have only a fourth-grade literacy level.[24] GPI currently provides training in six languages.[25]

GPI implements a training-to-employment mode. Trainees enroll in a paid six-month training program, during which they learn the principles and practice of investigative journalism through classroom-style training and direct content-production. Upon completion of the training, graduates are offered long-term employment with Global Press Journal.[8]

Funding and Support

GPI does not accept government funding or anonymous support.[26] It currently relies on individual and institutional donors, with plans to move towards sustainability through syndication revenue generated from Global Press News Services.[27] Its donors include the MacArthur Foundation, Emerson Collective, Luminate, Fondation CHANEL, and The Susie Tompkins Buell Foundation.[28]

Global Press Journal

Global Press Journal is an award-winning multilingual news publication featuring stories from Global Press reporters across its news bureaus. Each employee earns a living wage as well as access to continuing education.[29]

Global Press offers ongoing training to its reporters, including on topics such as climate change and other issues, as well as professional development and technical skills including fact-checking and multimedia. The reporters cover a range of topics including arts and culture, business, climate, community, economic justice, education, environment, gender justice, health, human rights, migration, and politics. Their stories revolve around topics that mainstream journalists often overlook when reporting on the community.[30]

Editorial Process

GPJ’s model requires that each reporter source and fact-check her stories before they are submitted for editing. Country editors based at local news desks supervise reporting and complete the first round of editing for each story. Regional editors help shape the stories, add global context and perform a third fact-check. GPJ’s managing editor and executive editor each review every story for accuracy and news value before it is published on the news wire.[30]

Awards

GPJ reporters have received international awards and accolades including:

  • 2013 Ulrich Wickert Award for Child Rights, awarded to Gloriose Isugi and Noella Nbihogo, Rwanda News Desk.[31][32]
  • 2012 Zambian Reporter of the Year, HIV/AIDS and Gender-based Violence Coverage, awarded to GPJ reporter Chanda Katango, Zambia News Desk.[33]
  • 2012 Excellence in Epilepsy Reporting, the International Bureau of Epilepsy, awarded to GPJ reporter Comfort Mussa, Cameroon News Desk.[34]
  • 2011 Elizabeth Neuffer Fellowship, International Women's Media Foundation, awarded to GPJ reporter Jackee Batanda, Uganda News Desk.[35]
  • 2011 Kurt Schork Award, Excellence in International Journalism, Reuters, awarded to GPJ reporter Gertrude Pswarayi, Zimbabwe News Desk.[36][37]
  • 2011 Kurt Schork Award, Excellence in International Journalism Shortlist, Reuters, awarded to GPJ senior reporter Tara Bhattarai, Nepal News Desk.
  • 2010 Journalism Innovation Prize, Society of Professional Journalists, awarded to Global Press Institute.

Global Press News Service

Global Press News Service is the syndication division of the Global Press Institute. Global Press News Service manages the paid syndication of stories produced by reporters working for the Global Press Journal.

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