Global Press

Mission:

Global Press creates a more informed and inclusive world by training and employing local women journalists in some of the world’s least-covered places to produce ethical, accurate news for local and global audiences.

To date, Global Press has trained more than 250 women journalists all over the world. They currently operate 37 news bureaus in 11 countries.

Global Press builds news bureaus in places where people lack independent access to information. They recruit, train, and hire professional women journalists to report on their local communities and Global Press publishes their stories in English and the local language on their award-winning news publication Global Press Journal. They distribute these stories to local and international news partners to maximize  reach and impact. Global Press pays their reporters strong salaries, health benefits, vacation, and paid family leave, and ensure they stay safe through GP’s award-winning Duty of Care program.

Global Press Journal also produces Multimedia and in-depth Special Reports on critical issues that are often under-covered or misunderstood. Utilizing a team of reporters across the world, these reports are often multi-national and emphasize the global connectedness of issues and ideas.

In addition, Global Press has a products and services division, Global Press News Services (GPNS), that helps ensure its reporters’ journalism gets picked up by mainstream media outlets.

Impact:

It is not an exaggeration to say that Global Press has changed the world of journalism.  Since their founding in 2006, they have been honored with 60+ awards.  For nearly two decades, Global Press has operated at the highest standards of nonprofit and journalistic excellence.

Global Press has pioneered a new model of journalism as it trained hundreds of women to be professional investigative journalists and staffed news bureaus in multiple countries.

Multiple GP news stories have influenced legal and policy changes such as this example in Mongolia.

They have created unique multimedia immersive storytelling experiences such as a story focused on refugees in the DRC, in 2019, called I Will Not Leave This Place. 

They have also created innovations that have had ripples in newsrooms around the globe. In September 2018 GP launched their new The Global Press Style Guide at the Online News Association (ONA). The Style Guide is a living document that established rules for referring to the people and places around the world where Global Press Journal reporters work. Each entry was crafted with the assistance of Global Press Journal reporters and editors, who live and work in the communities they cover.

The Global Press Style Guide was not intended to replace the widely used Associated Press Stylebook, but it augmented AP style in key ways by providing guidance for word choice regarding people, places and issues on which the AP’s book is silent. Other entries in this guide intentionally deviate from AP style. Thorough rationales are provided for all entries.

Each entry is crafted with the specific intention of promoting dignity and precision in the practice of international journalism.

Global Press also launched an industry-leading Duty of Care strategy that mitigates risk for journalists which continues to have widespread impact on the field.

Channel Grants:

2021-24: Three year general operating grant to Global Press to continue supporting their work training and employing local women journalists to produce ethical, accurate news coverage from the world’s least-covered places. 

In June 2022 Global Press Journal received the Women’s Solutions Reporting Award for a package of 19 stories entitled “Women’s Rights in the Pandemic,” which revealed systemic mistreatment of women, worsened by the pandemic, in Argentina, Mexico, Mongolia, Nepal, Uganda and Zimbabwe.  

2020: General operating support grant to support Global Press, with a particular interest in the investigative journalism multimedia projects of GP’s Enterprise Division as well as its all women staffed news bureaus and reporters in Africa and Asia.

2017-2019: Annual grants to the Global Press (GP) to continue support for their news bureaus in Uganda and Sri Lanka and to support their Enterprise Division’s multimedia investigative journalism projects. GP’s Enterprise Division uses original data, local expertise and authentic storytelling to drive investigative projects to support informed policy, movement building and programming.

In a powerful example of what the Enterprise Division has made possible, GP published a multimedia immersive storytelling experience on refugees in the DRC in 2019: I Will Not Leave This Place.

GP featured a video interview with Sri Lanka Regional Program Manager Manori Wijesekera discussing the June 2018 opening of the first GP News Desk in Northern Sri Lanka in Jaffna. Stories from the Sri Lanka News Desk can be found here.

Stories from the Uganda News Desk can be found here.

2016: Grant to support their Regional Program Managers in Africa and Asia along with ongoing GP News Bureau content production in Uganda and Sri Lanka.

2015: Grant to continue supporting GP’s Asia news desks and two major editorial initiatives, Women in Politics and LGBT Issues. These global series included story packages from every GP country around the world in a combination of narrative, video, photos and data-based story assets including interactive maps and infographics.

2014: Grant to support the GP regional news hub in Sri Lanka and to support journalists and content production there and in several other post-conflict news desks – Uganda, the Democratic Republic of Congo, and Guatemala.

2013: Grant to provide support for expanding GP’s video journalism training and production in Sri Lanka as well as ongoing support for the Uganda and Sri Lanka News Desks.

2012: Grant to support journalist and video training for GP reporters in Uganda and Kashmir as well as ongoing support for the Uganda and Sri Lanka News Desks.

2011: Grant 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.

2010: Grant to support 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.