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GroundTruth founder honored with Foley Foundation’s World Press Freedom Award
The James W. Foley Legacy Foundation announced on December 5 that GroundTruth’s Charles Sennott, who worked with Jim Foley as the Executive Editor and co-founder of GlobalPost, will be honored with its World Press Freedom Award on May 1 in Washington, D.C. In a press release, Foley Foundation President...
The killing of journalists in the Israel-Hamas conflict undermines a free press.
Sixty-three journalists and media workers were among more than 18,000 Palestinians killed by the Israeli Defense Forces since the war began with an attack by Hamas on October 7 in Israel that killed 1200 and where some 240 hostages were taken. As a reader of this newsletter, you have no...
Stories of the Mississippi River: Adventure, freedom and journalism
The Mississippi River flows for more than 2,300 miles through ten states, stretching for 11 miles across at its widest point. The most storied river in American history, its swirling currents gave shape to our culture. It offers a metaphor for freedom in literature and it flows through all of American music and poetry. It has given us life and work and meaning. I will never forget the first time I saw the mighty Mississippi, hitchhiking across the country circa 1979 hell bent on trying to get to New Orleans to experience the river and all the stories it has to tell.
The vanishing middle ground in the Israel-Palestine debate
Like a blast wave traveling 7,000 miles from the rubble of Gaza all the way to the shores of the United States, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is echoing through communities across America and deeply dividing the country. And nowhere it seems are the tensions running higher than on college campuses. The...
Report for the World, East-West Center launch new reporting initiative for Pacific Island newsrooms
December 1, 2023 — Report for the World, in partnership with East-West Center, invites independent news organizations from across the Pacific Islands to apply to host a full-time financial investigative journalist for up to three years. Newsrooms are invited to apply between now and Jan. 15. They will be...
Want to save democracy? Support local news.
The dramatically accelerating collapse of local newspapers in America and the threat it poses to our democracy is starkly revealed in a new landmark report titled “The State of Local News 2023,” produced by Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism. This extensive report, with more than 400...
It is a time of war, but we are overlooking the most deadly conflict: the “war on drugs.”
War has dominated the global headlines for more than a year, first in Ukraine and more recently in Gaza. These were stories we had to focus on as they are urgent and tragic, but the coverage of these conflicts has eclipsed many other pressing issues for the world, including one that has directly claimed 600,000 lives globally in a year, according to the World Health Organization: drug trafficking.
Gaza’s ‘blood-dimmed tide,’ and the undercurrents of World War I
In Gaza, the dead do not rest in peace. A Remembrance Day ceremony set for tomorrow in Gaza marking the armistice of World War I, or Veterans Day as it is called in America, was canceled after the 100-year-old Commonwealth War Cemetery was reportedly damaged amid the fierce shelling in the month-long, Israel-Hamas war.
No glimpse of light as Israel-Hamas war rages on
This dark moment in the Middle East has been called Israel’s 9-11. And if October 7th, when the terror attack by Hamas in southern Israel slaughtered 1,400 Israelis and when 230 hostages were taken, is to be compared to September 11th, 2001, and Al Qaeda’s attack on America, it is certainly worth noting how the war in Afghanistan ended.
Statement on the Israel-Hamas war
In times of conflict, The GroundTruth Project stands firmly committed to the highest standards of journalism and calls for the protection of press freedom and all innocent civilians. The Israel-Hamas war has once again underscored the crucial role that journalists need to play in providing accurate and impartial information to the world.
Lost translation: the gap in language services
Maria Canales became the official family translator when her family moved from Puerto Rico to Connecticut. By the time she was nine years old, Canales was reading the instructions on prescription medications, making agreements with the landlord and filling out Social Security paperwork. Simple things like acronyms were a challenge...
The global struggles of indigenous communities
Colonialism was a global enterprise. And around the world today our reporting corps is covering the process of de-colonizing and restorative justice that still unfolds in halting steps from the Native American lands of North Dakota where remains are still being excavated from children who perished in forced boarding schools to Brazilian Amazon where there is a new effort to establishment indigenous territories to protest movements by the Adivasi tribes of India.
A year after an oil spill, fishing communities in Peru struggle to get compensation and restoration
Editor’s note: This story was originally published by Report for the World host newsroom Convoca. It was made possible thanks to the support of Journalism Fund Europe. In January of 2022 an oil spill at a refinery off the coast of Ventanilla, Peru contaminated the sea and the surrounding coastline, leaving hundreds of fishers without work overnight.
A post-truth era, and the Israel-Hamas war
Post-truth. The Oxford Dictionary defines it as ”Relating to circumstances in which people respond more to feelings and beliefs than to facts.”. The term was coined about ten years ago but exploded into consciousness in 2016 when the same dictionary named it as their word of the year, a fitting honor for a term that increasingly seems to define the era in which we live.
Finding hope and purpose during dark times
How do you begin to measure the depths of depravity in the attack by Hamas militants in southern Israel and the enormity of the military response and collective punishment underway in Gaza?. If the human cost is measured in the loss of innocent civilians, then sadly the toll is mounting....
How unregulated sand mining is depleting farmland in Nigeria
Sand. The world’s great cities are built of it: The concrete that is used to give shape to buildings, the glass we use for windows and the pavement for roads are all made of sand. So mountains of sand – nearly 50 billion tons of it – are extracted...
The impact of language barriers for Latinos across America
A version of this story was published by U.S. News and World Report on September 14, 2023. Every time there’s a neighborhood meeting with the Stockton, CA, Police Department, Griselda Juarez leaves her work early to attend. But more often than not, she goes back home without having voiced her concerns. Juarez doesn’t speak English and often there are no translation services available to understand what information is being given and to allow her to ask questions.
Emboldened by early achievements, Preethi Nallu charges into second year at Report for World with new title
Preethi Nallu has achieved significant milestones in her first year leading Report for the World. The program has expanded its presence in newsrooms across the globe — beginning with Brazil, India and Nigeria, it now boasts 45 reporting corps members in 32 newsrooms across Asia, Africa, Latin America and Eastern Europe.
In Brazil, rural communities are caught in the eye of the wind farm storm
CERRO CORÁ, Brazil — Antônio Acelino de Moura, 65, says he imagined the future had finally arrived at his community in the northeast of Brazil when, in 2012, he heard the news that a wind farm would be built here. Moura, a farmer with tanned and weathered...
The GroundTruth Project welcomes a leading news executive and mission-driven entrepreneur to its board of directors
The GroundTruth Project today announced the appointments of Maribel Perez Wadsworth, the former president of Gannett Media and publisher of USA Today, and Jordan Meranus, the CEO and co-founder of Ellevation, to its board of directors. The GroundTruth Project is an award-winning nonprofit journalism organization dedicated to rebuilding journalism from...
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