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In these times, why punk is making a comeback
When you look at KT Kanazawich’s photojournalism, it is defined by intimacy, as if you were invited into the inner circle of whomever she’s working with that day. If you ask KT what her secret is to get such close access to her subjects, she’ll shrug and say, “I hang out.” A closer look at one of her personal projects, a 15-year documentation of the punk and hardcore scene in her native Binghamton, NY, reveals the depth of her commitment to this approach.
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The GroundTruth Project’s mission is to restore journalism from the ground up by supporting the next generation of journalists through field reporting that serves under-covered corners of the United States and the world. Report for America is a national service program that places emerging journalists into local newsrooms to...
Independence day and the crisis of American democracy
BOSTON – This Independence Day, it felt like America is not so much celebrating as soberly pondering the future of our democracy. Amid all the barbecues, parades and fireworks that traditionally mark the 4th of July, there is a political crisis brewing. It has descended upon America less than two months before the party conventions and just four months before Americans go to the polls in one of the most fateful presidential elections in our modern history.
A double helix of free speech and press freedom
There were two seismic events last week with the release of WikiLeaks’ founder Julian Assange after a plea deal with the United States and the start of the proceedings against the Wall Street Journal’s correspondent Evan Gershkovich, who was falsely accused of espionage in Russia. They are like...
Obscure mechanisms and failed oversight allow mass gold trafficking in South America
Editor’s note: Report for the World host newsroom Convoca led a group of Latin American news organizations in a cross-border investigation of the gold trade and how illegal miners circumvent the governments’ oversight to sell their gold in international markets as if it had been extracted legally. You can find the entire series in Convoca and their partners’ sites.
Six Pacific journalists selected for new Financial Investigative Reporting Initiative from East-West Center, Report for the World
The East-West Center and Report for the World are pleased to announce the six journalists that have been selected for the Pacific Islands Financial Investigative Reporting and Mentorship Initiative, or the FIRM. This new initiative supports the establishment and expansion of financial investigative reporting units within local newsrooms committed to public service journalism.
Juneteenth. A promise and America’s challenge to live up to it.
For more than 150 years, the day now known as Juneteenth has been sacred in many Black communities, a day to celebrate the promise of freedom and reflect on the challenges in America to live up to that promise. It marks June 19, 1865, the day when, more than two...
How a Report for the World newsroom is tracking desertification in Brazil
In 1999 Inácio França, then a reporter in Recife, traveled through the Northeast of Brazil documenting the advance of desertification in the region. The series of stories he wrote served as a curtain raiser for the United Nations’ Conference of the Parties (COP,) a forum where experts discussed the dangers of desertification and called upon governments to take action. The conference was held in Recife because the region registered alarming signs of land degradation.
A reporter’s call to service in Ukraine, and what is left behind
KYIV – One year ago, news broke that the dam at Ukraine’s Kakhovka Hydroelectric Power Plant was destroyed in an explosion. That unleashed a torrent of water that burst the banks of the Dnipro River in southern Ukraine, swallowing up towns and farmlands and destroying nature preserves. Upriver from the dam is one of Europe’s largest nuclear power stations, which was also threatened as it relies on the river to cool the reactor.
The GroundTruth Project welcomes prominent journalism academics to its board of directors
The GroundTruth Project is pleased to announce the appointments of Dinesh Balliah, the director of the Wits Centre for Journalism at the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa, and Anya Schiffrin, the director of the Technology, Media, and Communications specialization at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs, to its board of directors.
Seeing industrial pollution through a journalist’s lens
The pollutants produced by extractive industries are often measured in parts per billion. Not something you can photograph directly, and not a data set that is a gripping narrative in itself, but their impact is tangible and it’s devastating communities and wildlife across the world. Photographing and writing for...
Report for the World and the International Press Institute launch a Roadmap for revenue diversification and innovation in journalism
Report for the World is pleased to announce the launch of “The Revenue Roadmap: a Guidebook to Diversifying Revenue and Editorial Innovation,” a comprehensive resource developed to equip media leaders with strategies and tools to navigate the evolving landscape of journalism. Produced in partnership with the International Press Institute (IPI), this guidebook is designed to address the pressing sustainability challenges faced by independent media outlets to foster innovation and sustainability in the field.
Blinken delivers desperately needed weapons and a message of support at a turning point for Ukraine.
Kyiv, Ukraine — Just above the Maidan, or “square” of independence where the so-called “Revolution of Dignity” first began in 2014, burned-out and shot-up carcasses of Russian tanks from the early fighting to repel Russia’s 2022 full-scale invasion of Ukraine are on display. A...
Local journalism in Ukraine: The eyes of the war and the voice and soul of the country.
BUCHA, Ukraine — More than 250 local journalists from cities and towns across Ukraine as well as international human rights advocates and government officials gathered here today along with scores of international journalists for the second annual Bucha Journalism Conference titled “Tipping Point: Journalism and the all-out war on truth.”
Why the rebuilding of Ukraine must include local journalism
For 17 journalists killed in Ukraine over the last two years. For the more than 100 journalists killed in Gaza in the last seven months. The 1,572 journalists killed since 1993 when the Committee to Protect Journalists first started keeping this grim count. And we have to continue to remember...
GroundTruth calls for release of unjustly detained Nigerian journalist
BOSTON, May 8, 2024—The GroundTruth Project, home to Report for America and Report for the World, joins leading news organizations in demanding the release of Nigerian journalist Daniel Ojukwu whom government authorities have held since May 1. Ojukwu had been missing for several days before his newsroom, the Foundation...
The Foley Foundation’s “World Press Freedom Award” brings a heavy responsibility to keep fighting for journalism and democracy
I was in Washington, DC this week at the National Press Club for The James Foley Freedom Awards which recognize “moral courage” in journalism and advocacy for wrongfully detained Americans around the world. I was deeply honored to receive the World Press Freedom Award on behalf of GroundTruth and in recognition of four decades of work as a journalist and social entrepreneur. It is truly the honor of a lifetime, but much more importantly the award represents an extraordinary opportunity to highlight the heroic work of colleagues around the world who are willing to put their lives on the line in dedication to the service of journalism.
Charles Sennott receives James W. Foley World Press Freedom Award
WASHINGTON — The GroundTruth Project’s founder and editor-in-chief, Charles Sennott, received the James W. Foley World Press Freedom Award last night during a fundraiser celebrating the James W. Foley Legacy Foundation’s 10th anniversary. The Foley Foundation was founded following the death of journalist James “Jim” Foley who...
Charles Sennott’s remarks to the James Foley Freedom Awards on accepting the World Press Freedom Award.
I am truly honored and humbled by this award. Thank you. Thank you all for being here. I want to thank the James Foley Legacy Foundation and most of all I want to thank Diane. Thank you for living your faith every day, Diane. Thank you for understanding Jim’s calling as a journalist. Thank you for fighting for freelance journalists everywhere, and especially for the families of those wrongfully detained. And thanks to you and John and the whole Foley family for the foundation you’ve created to honor Jim’s legacy and the “moral courage” that defined his life.
Report for America welcomes newest corps members
See the new corps member assignments here. Report for America is pleased to announce that it will place nearly 60 reporters and photojournalists in new positions at local newsrooms across the country this summer. These new corps members join dozens more who will continue reporting on undercovered communities and topics...
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