The latest
State of Play: Summer Games
The Olympics are meant to welcome the world, but who are they really for? Meet the people who are moved out, pushed out, and priced out in the name of sports. From the GRC and PRX, all episodes are out now.
![People standing near a stadium with a sign reading LOS ANGELES.](https://i0.wp.com/globalreportingcentre.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/sop-6-2.jpg?resize=960%2C960&ssl=1)
About the GRC
Global
journalism,
done
differently.
We are an editorially independent journalism organization working to reimagine global reporting. Here’s how we work.
In numbers
- 🏆 41 awards and nominations
- 🌏 21 active contributing journalists
- 🎓 220+ graduate students trained through hands-on global journalism
Recent Highlight
✨ We’ve been recognized with a 2024 Anthem Award for our Empowerment Journalism guide.
![A woman crouched on the beach recording the sound of the waves. A colourful boardwalk with a ferris wheel in the background.](https://i0.wp.com/globalreportingcentre.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/2.jpg?resize=1800%2C1350&ssl=1)
Support a new approach to global journalism.
GRC Producer Sharon Nadeem. Credit: Jesse Winter
-
FEATURES / DOCUMENTARY
France’s Olympic Gamble
For the latest project of the Global Reporting Program (GRP), students travelled to Paris ahead of the 2024 Summer Games to investigate some of the impacts of hosting the Olympics. The result of that work is a 25-minute documentary for Al Jazeera’s People & Power.
The GRP is a graduate-level course at UBC that brings students together to produce ambitious global reporting projects. Learn more about the GRP.
-
Resources / Guide
Empowerment Journalism Guide
An award-winning 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
…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
Join the GRC
Don’t miss out
We’re doing cool stuff. Stay up to date on the latest features and investigations, career and student opportunities by signing up for our quarterly newsletter.
Updates and Events
-
State of Play, our “illuminating and alarming” podcast, is out now
We’re proud to share our new podcast series, State of Play: Summer Games, which is being distributed by Pulitzer and Peabody Award-winning public media organization PRX.
-
Our year in review
Get the GRC’s 2023-2024 annual report.
-
How can journalism respond to generative AI?
A report by the Centre for the Study of Democratic Institutions (with support from the GRC) on the promise and peril of using AI in journalism.
-
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.
-
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.
-
The Global Reporting Centre announces new leadership
We have breaking news at the GRC!
-
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…
-
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.