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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
- 🏆 32 awards and nominations
- 🌏 21 active contributing journalists
- 🎓 220+ graduate students trained through hands-on global journalism
Recent Highlight
✨ We’ve been recognized with the 2023 Bill Good Award.
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Resources / Guide
Empowerment Journalism Guide
An online reporting guide of best practices, advice, and guidance for reporting with and in communities. This guide includes insights from 21 professionals, including Peabody, Academy, and Emmy award-winning filmmakers, as well as newsroom leaders, editors, community reporters, and authors.
You’ll find practical advice on building trust and partnerships, consent, crediting, accountability and more.
Photo: Britney Dennison
Recent media Partners
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Latest Feature / Trust Us
Episode 1
Inside Jersey Offshore
Trust Us is a four-part podcast series that tells the fascinating(ly brazen) story of a trove of leaked documents that exposed the machinations of a trust company in Jersey.
Hosted by Sam Eifling, produced by the GRC and EIC. In partnership with Bribe, Swindle or Steal from TRACE International. Listen to episode 1 on Apple, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. New episodes Wednesdays.
Illustration: Kathleen Fu
…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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Updates and Events
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Statement on Meta’s news block in Canada
In response to Meta blocking news from its platforms in Canada, the GRC will no longer post on Facebook, Threads, or Instagram at this time.
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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.