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About the GRC
Global
journalism,
done
differently.
We are an editorially independent and not-for-profit newsroom working to reimagine global journalism. Here’s how we work.
In numbers
- 🏆 28 awards and nominations
- 🌏 21 active contributing journalists
- 🎓 220+ graduate students trained through hands-on global journalism
Recent Highlight
Our project Growing Older, published in partnership with The Globe and Mail, won the 2022 AHCJ Award for Excellence in Health Care Journalism in the Student category.
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Latest Feature / story
Months after residents sound the alarm, Pennsylvania ‘cracks’ down on Shell plant
Shell to pay $10 million to Pennsylvania for exceeding emissions limits during the troubled start-up of its massive new plastics plant. The new ethane ‘cracker’ officially switched on last November. The cracker plant had a series of malfunctions this spring, as residents and activists pressed the Department of Environmental Protection to step in. Published in partnership with NBC News.
Photo illustration: Leila Register for NBC News / Katarina Sabados for Global Reporting Centre Supply Chains / story
The new steel?
This feature story gets a first-hand account from people who see the economic opportunity of a new plastics complex — as well as those who “fear a return to a toxic past for a product the world needs less of.”
Written by Hannah Rappleye with the Investigative Unit at NBC News.
Photo: Hannah Rappleye / NBC News Supply Chains / Explainer
The house that plastic built
Our world is flooded with cheap subsidized plastic. How did we get here? A look back at the history of a now-indispensable industry.
This was an honourable mention for the DPA for Best Science & Technology Storytelling.
Animation: Esther Cheung
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Public Health / story & interactive
The Vaccine Problem
To better weather future pandemics, the way countries procure vaccines needs to change radically.
A feature story and quiz produced in partnership with The Walrus, with funding from the National Institute for Health Care Management.
Illustration by Marley Allen-Ash
Recent media Partners
…the Global Reporting Centre peels back that false narrative that things are just happening in one country. And allows journalists and students to collaborate on really big stories that can make a really big difference.”
—Martha Mendoza, AP News
It is really an opportunity for journalists to come together as opposed to just working in our silos.”
—Duy Linh Tu, Columbia Journalism School
Their merging of academics with journalists is a fascinating new way to explore in-depth topics that are complicated and span the globe.”
—Robert Cribb, Toronto Star
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Environment / series
Rice farmers pay the price for conservation in the Mekong Basin
This series follows rice farmers from Cambodia’s Tonle Sap Lake downstream to the Delta in Vietnam where the Mekong River joins the South China Sea. Rice farming is a major industry and food source, but is under threat from a changing climate. As farmers face pressure to change how they farm in an effort to conserve the waterways, the lives and livelihoods of the small-scale farmers who fill the world’s rice bowl are being upended. Produced by students of the Global Reporting Program and published in partnership with Mongabay.
Photo: Shaurya Kshatri Latest Feature / Story
Cambodia
Small farmers in limbo as Cambodia wavers on Tonle Sap conservation rules
Rice farmers in the flood plains of Cambodia’s Tonle Sap Lake were evicted from their land after a government conservation crackdown in 2021. But ahead of the upcoming national election, officials are backpedaling, returning land to some farmers while leaving others uncertain of their fate.
Photo: Thomas Cristofoletti Latest Feature / Story
Vietnam
Growing rice in Vietnam’s Mekong Delta, where fresh water is no longer a sure thing
Farmers in Vietnam’s Mekong Delta face worsening impacts of a changing climate making it tougher to farm what is one of the country’s biggest exports — rice. In response, the Vietnamese government is pushing for more sustainable farming methods.
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Updates and Events
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The Global Reporting Centre announces new leadership
We have breaking news at the GRC!
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A new look, and a renewed focus on doing things differently
The Global Reporting Centre has evolved since its inception nearly seven years ago. Reflecting on its development, executive director and founder Peter Klein said, “We thought that, if we’re going to build up global journalism, we could try different approaches. But the notion of really challenging the norms and practices wasn’t central to our early […]
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Meet our new supply chain reporting fellow
We spoke with Emma Barnes-Lewis, the GRC’s Supply Chain Reporting Fellow, about what compelled her to research modern slavery and exploitation.
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How a ‘carbon cage’ blocks climate mitigation
Associate Professor Kate Ervine with a short doc for Scientific American exploring how climate action is stopped by carbon dependence. Co-produced by Duy Linh Tu with support from the Hidden Costs Academic-Journalism Collaboration Grant.
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Fake Facebook accounts used to attack detained Moroccan journalists in coordinated online campaign
Part of a larger GRC/CPJ study on efforts to discredit and harass journalists around the world.
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Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Maria Ressa speaks on disinformation and democracy
The GRC co-hosted a public lecture by Nobel Peace Prize laureate Maria Ressa, who explained how disinformation spread by social media threatens democracy.
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China’s capture of Ghana’s fishing industry threatening food security
Ghanian journalist Kwabena Adu Koranteng and researcher Alassane Samba look at how Chinese proliferation in Ghana’s fishing industry is threatening food security in the region. This story is a result of the Hidden Costs Academic-Journalism Collaboration Grant.
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Global Reporting Centre wins National Edward R. Murrow Award
Turning Points wins a national Edward R. Murrow Award for Excellence in Diversity, Equity and Inclusion