Stories and Articles About Our Work

  • Dedicated Journalists in Central African Republic Determined to Get Training

    Wednesday, October 27, 2010

    For two determined journalists who live in the isolated, easternmost part of the country, the answer is: ride on top of a truck, on bad roads, during the rainy season— for five days straight.

    This past August, that’s what it took for Ricardo Dimanche, director of a community radio station in the village of Obo, and his colleague to get to an Internews training in the capital, Bangui.

    “I asked to attend because we are desperately in need of good training,” says Ricardo. Read more »

  • A travel grant story goes viral on Youtube

    Tuesday, October 26, 2010 - Reuters

    NEW DELHI (AlertNet) - Before this year's floods, Pakistan's air waves were filled with music, dramas, talk shows and cookery programs, but media workers say the devastating disaster is slowly transforming radio broadcasts that are now dedicating time to life-saving humanitarian aid information.

    The July/August floods, which hit over 20 million people in the biggest humanitarian emergency in recent years, have submerged swathes of agricultural land and destroyed thousands of homes and scores of villages from the far north to the deep south. Read more »

  • Internews Supports Vital Communications Response to Cholera Outbreak in Haiti

    Monday, October 25, 2010

    Washington DC/Paris—In close coordination with the Government of Haiti, local media partners, the United Nations, international and local relief organizations, and health and civilian protection officials, Internews is helping to coordinate and disseminate a large-scale emergency public information campaign vital to the containment, prevention and early treatment of cholera as the World Health Organization (WHO) states "that a public information campaign can make the difference between life and death" in Haiti. Read more »

  • Gates charity's other mission: Funding free presses in the developing world

    Tuesday, September 28, 2010 - Fortune (CNN Money)

    Internews tries to build a free press in countries all over the world that don't have one. Read more »

  • Internews' Use of Technology for Humanitarian Media to be Announced at Clinton Global Initiative

    Tuesday, September 21, 2010

    (September 21, 2010) Internews Network’s Innovative Use of Technology for Humanitarian Aid will be among the projects included at this week’s annual meeting of the Clinton Global Initiative. Internews is a leader in the use of communication tools when responding to humanitarian crises, including SMS texting, crowd sourcing, health mapping, mobile integration and custom internet applications. Read more »

  • Journalists in Kyrgyzstan Get Help to Deal with Post-Conflict Trauma

    Wednesday, September 8, 2010
    Two journalists in the water, one using a video camera

    Unable to do their jobs and practice their profession because of the immediate physical threat and fear for their lives, local reporters, both of Kyrgyz and Uzbek ethnicity, found themselves on two opposite sides of the conflict. Read more »

  • Thai Citizen Journalists Learn How to Report on Conflict and Justice

    Wednesday, September 8, 2010

    (September 8, 2010) In Southern Thailand, Internews is operating a Media Training Center (MTC) for journalists and members of civil society to help them better report on the simmering insurgency in Thailand's three southern most provinces of Pattani, Narathiwat and Yala.

    Although the conflict has claimed over 4,000 lives since it re-ignited in 2004, it remains relatively under-reported in the Thai media. Read more »

  • Internews Develops Health Reporting Curriculum for Addis Ababa University

    Wednesday, August 18, 2010

    Internews Ethiopia developed the Reporting HIV/AIDS curriculum for the MA in Journalism and Communication, and the flexible format can be delivered either in the classroom or as a distance/online module.

    Course Content

    Course content includes an examination of media approaches and responsibilities in reporting HIV and the portrayal of people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA) and marginalized risk groups. It explores issues of cultural and social opposition, stigmatizing language and appropriate sources and resources, all in the Ethiopian context. Read more »

  • Internews Responds to Devastating Floods in Pakistan with Humanitarian Media Response

    Tuesday, August 10, 2010
    A female Pakistani journalist interviews a flood victim with his goats

    Internews is responding to the worst floods in Pakistan in decades by providing information to nearly five million people affected by the floods in Pakistan’s northwest region.

    Working with local radio stations in the hardest hit areas in Pakistan’s northwest region, Internews is ensuring journalists are able to continue reporting on the devastation and on the critical relief efforts now underway. This includes hearing from people who have lost their homes and are waiting for help. Read more »

  • Radio Offers a Lifeline to Pakistan as Crisis Worsens

    Wednesday, August 4, 2010

    Developed by BBC World Service Trust and Internews, the infoasaid service will transmit lifesaving information to the hundreds of thousands of people currently cut off from emergency aid efforts and most at risk.

    BBC Urdu will transmit six daily bulletins in Urdu and Pashto providing vital information including how to stay safe, avoid disease and access aid.* Read more »