Project Updates

  • Community Radios in DRC Petition for Improved Legal Status

    Wednesday, May 15, 2013
    Young man holds a portable radio

    After a year-long advocacy effort, Congolese community radio stations are now a significant step closer to enjoying improved legal status under Congolese law. Current conditions make it difficult for community radio stations in DRC to survive because they must pay the same license fees as other stations, but are prohibited from collecting advertising revenue.

    Elsewhere around the world, community radio stations pay reduced or no license fees in recognition of the fact that they are a unique and important source of local news—one that is particularly critical across Africa. Read more »

  • In Kenya, Learning to Make Numbers Talk

    Wednesday, May 1, 2013
    Kenyan journalist filming

    Journalists and public health officials in Kenya have welcomed Internews’ new health journalism training program, Health Media Project (HMP), describing it as an opportunity to intensify their efforts to help Kenyans access quality, life-saving, health information, especially through data-driven reporting. Read more »

  • Before Skype, Spacebridges Let Ordinary Citizens from Around the World Talk “Face to Face”

    Monday, April 29, 2013

    “I hope that we’ll be able to meet in person someday,” says Ayal, a former Israeli soldier, to Jawad, a Palestinian activist, after they have communicated several times via a videoconference-satellite link in 1992. “I’d like to tell you what I’d have been doing if I were Palestinian. I think I would have fought against the occupation.” Read more »

  • Internews Names Jeanne Bourgault President & CEO

    Tuesday, April 23, 2013
    Jeanne Bourgault

    Jeanne Bourgault was appointed by the Board of Directors of Internews to be its second President & CEO, succeeding founder David Hoffman. She will shepherd its mission to empower local media throughout the world, overseeing $62 million in programs currently in 46 countries, and a staff of nearly 690 across offices in 26 countries. Read more »

  • Coverage of Fisheries and Ocean Issues Limited in China, Study Shows

    Thursday, April 18, 2013

    In early September 2012, Internews’ Earth Journalism Network (EJN) brought eight Chinese journalists to the Seafood Summit in Hong Kong, where they received training from journalists and seafood experts, embarked on an intensive three-day field trip in southern China, and filed stories to their home media organizations. Read more »

  • New Interactive Map Tracks Climate Change News in the US

    Thursday, April 18, 2013

    Internews’ Earth Journalism Network (EJN) announces the launch of Climate Commons, a new interactive data journalism and news mapping platform that aims to track the impacts of and responses to climate change on a local, regional, and national level across the United States. Read more »

  • Digging into Agricultural Journalism

    Wednesday, April 17, 2013
    Cover: Making Sense (and Cents) of Food and Nature

    Internews’ Earth Journalism Network has published and distributed a toolkit in four languages for journalists working on stories about food security and agro-ecology, the application of ecological science to the study, and design and management of sustainable agricultural ecosystems. The toolkit includes a wealth of useful statistics, information sources, links to further readings, journalism tips, and definitions of terminology. Read more »

  • UC Berkeley and Internews Host Conference and Events for Environmental Journalists

    Wednesday, April 17, 2013
    Earth Journalism Network

    Internews’ Earth Journalism Network (EJN) is hosting two public events featuring environmental journalism leaders from around the world who will be visiting the Bay Area early next month: Read more »

  • Internews brings trainings, global professionals to UNESCO’s World Press Freedom Day

    Tuesday, April 16, 2013
    Safe to Speak

    To mark the 20th annual World Press Freedom Day, Internews is offering two trainings focused on journalism security following the May 2-4 conference, co-hosted by UNESCO and the government of Costa Rica, and will bring 20 media professionals from 17 countries to participate in the trainings and events. Read more »

  • Egyptian Students Push to Improve Their Local Health Center

    Monday, April 8, 2013
    medical waste

    When a student was injured one day on his way home from school in the El Mahmoudia district of Aswan in southern Egypt, his friends took him immediately to the local health clinic for treatment. Upon arrival, the group was shocked to discover a serious lack of medical supplies and trained nurses. Heba Sayed, one of the students, found “There were no doctors, no medical instruments at all; just an inexpert nurse who tried to help him by using primitive and traditional treatments.” Read more »

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