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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
- 🏆 34 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
Fixers Guide
In nearly a decade of work studying the foreign correspondent-fixer dynamic, the Global Reporting Centre has identified several key areas of concern for local journalists: respect, editorial agency, pay, safety, and credit.
Working together with a diverse group of journalists — editors, reporters, and fixers — we compiled a list of suggested best practices for global newsrooms when hiring local journalists. It is our hope that this document will create a standard for working practices.
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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 on Apple, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts.
Illustration: Kathleen Fu Latest Feature / Trust Us
Episode 2
The investigation
“No matter how much you try to obscure it, you still leave some traces.”
Hear about how the discovery of some key documents among thousands helped journalists uncover an elaborate money laundering scheme. Episode 2 is out now on Apple, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts.
Illustration: Kathleen Fu Latest Feature / Trust Us
Episode 3
The Jersey way
“I think as soon as you’ve got your money into Jersey, you’re halfway there to cleaning it.”
Journalist Isobel Koshiw and Sam Eifling discuss the inner-workings of Jersey and the nearly $150 billion USD that enters London from Jersey every year. Episode 3 is out now on Apple, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts.
Illustration: Kathleen Fu Latest Feature / Trust Us
Episode 4
Beyond the 11 ways
“It was a different kind of leak: it was the forensics, the wire transfers, the emails…”
In the fourth and final episode, Sam Eifling talks to journalists Robert Cribb, Marco Chown Oved, and Calyn Shaw about their experiences with the Jersey Offshore investigation. Out now on Apple, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts.
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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Finance / podcast & Story
Microfinance was meant to help the world’s poor, but in Cambodia, it’s plunging people deeper into debt
Microfinance was hailed as a way to change the lives of hundreds of millions of people without access to credit.
Global Reporting Program fellow Hanna Hett reports that in Cambodia, borrowers are now drowning in debt and being forced off their land.
Photo: Hanna Hett/The World
Updates and Events
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Why the Global Reporting Centre pursued an investigation into Shell’s new plastics plant
This months-long investigation not only recounts the concerns expressed by residents living near the plant, but also highlights the ways that the community came together to pressure Shell to be more transparent about the issues at the plant.
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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.