Grantee name: The Global Press Institute

Mission: The Global Press Institute (GPI) is an international news organization that utilizes a training-to-employment model to bring responsible, investigative journalism to communities throughout the world. GPI trains women in the developing world to produce original content that is disseminated to local and global audiences. GPI reporters have unprecedented access to local sources and write with powerful social, historical and political context. GPI operates news desks in 24 countries and collaborates with organizations dedicated to human development and responsible journalism.

Location: Global

Website: www.globalpressinstitute.org

YouTube Channel: www.youtube.com/user/thepressinstitute#p/u/0/wWpTs5XwU90

Channel Grants: Channel made a grant to the Global Press Institute to support 1) continued content creation out of the Uganda and Sri Lanka News Desks in Kampala and Colombo; 2) expansion of the Gender and Post-Conflict Reporting Training Program to four additional sites in Egypt, Liberia, Kosovo and Kashmir; and 3) hiring and capacity building of regional editors in East Africa and South America in order to boost content production, training projects, and global presence. (2011)

Channel made a grant to the Global Press Institute for the purposes of supporting the creation and implementation of a multi-faceted topical journalism training and employment program, “Reporting Gender Issues in Post-Conflict Regions,” to be implemented in two Press Institute News Desk Sites – Sri Lanka and Uganda. (2010)

To become a reader of the daily newswire, visit the Global Press Institute Newswire for a dose of unique, authentic, ethical, investigative news from around the world.

Awards: Gertrude Pswarayi, a reporter at the Zimbabwe News Desk of Channel grantee partner the Global Press Institute (GPI), has won this year's 2011 Kurt Schork Award in the local reporter category for her piece "Political Rape Survivors Come Forward in Advance of 2011 Election," an article published by GPI last December about women who were raped and exploited as a tool of political persecution in Zimbabwe, a country with "zero tolerance for the journalism of revelation," the judges noted. The Kurt Schork Memorial Awards are the world's only journalism prize that specifically honors foreign news by reporters living and working in the developing world and countries in transition.

Ugandan GPI reporter Jackee Budesta Batanda has been named the 2011-2012 Elizabeth Neuffer Fellow by the International Women's Media Foundation. She received special commendation for her reporting on acid attacks on women as "revenge crimes" and the targeted murder of albinos. After training with GPI (at the Channel-supported workshop on Reporting Gender Issues in Post-Conflict Regions), Batanda became determined to report and research “closing media spaces in African nations” during the fellowship when she studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Center for International Studies and other Boston-area universities. Batanda, 31, plans to create a reporting skills workshop for Ugandan journalists after her seven-month fellowship.

Global Press Institute founder Cristi Hegranes has won a Jefferson Award for Public Service "for using journalism as a catalyst for economic empowerment, global awareness, and social change." Hegranes and the organization which has so far trained and employed 114 women in 24 countries to be journalists are featured in a May 11, 2011 CBS News story and news clip.