The Global Press Institute is a

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-based

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nonprofit organization that builds and maintains news bureaus in some of the world's least-covered places, staffed by local women journalists whose social, historical and political context distinguishes them from

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s. The organization consists of three divisions: Global Press Institute, which focuses on training local women to become journalists in developing media markets
Global Press Journal
the organization's award-winning multilingual news publication; an
Global Press News Services
which sells a customized Duty of Care program, a Style Guide workshop, access to a photo archive, and other products and services to media, education, and corporate syndication partners.

History

GPI was founded in 2006 by Cristi Hegranes, a young American journalist. A year earlier, Hegranes had been working as a

in Nepal when she realized that a local woman was better equipped to report on a community's story because she had more cultural and historical context and had access to reliable sources. She returned to the United States, quit her job, and asked everyone she knew for $40. With the $10,000 she raised, she founded Global Press Institute. In 2006, Hegranes performed the first GPI training in

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, Mexico, where five women were trained in the principles and practice of traditional

investigative journalism Investigative journalism is a form of journalism in which reporters deeply investigate a single topic of interest, such as serious crimes, political corruption, or corporate wrongdoing. An investigative journalist may spend months or years rese ...

. The stories, which covered topics such as

AIDS Human immunodeficiency virus infection and acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (HIV/AIDS) is a spectrum of conditions caused by infection with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), a retrovirus. Following initial infection an individual m ...

poverty Poverty is the state of having few material possessions or little income. Poverty can have diverse social, economic, and political causes and effects. When evaluating poverty in ...

, clandestine

abortion Abortion is the termination of a pregnancy by removal or expulsion of an embryo or fetus. An abortion that occurs without intervention is known as a miscarriage or "spontaneous abortion"; these occur in approximately 30% to 40% of pregn ...

and

community development The United Nations defines community development as "a process where community members come together to take collective action and generate solutions to common problems." It is a broad concept, applied to the practices of civic leaders, activists ...

, were the first that were published by the ''Global Press Journal''. Hegranes established a second news bureau in

Nepal Nepal (; ne, नेपाल ), formerly the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal ( ne, सङ्घीय लोकतान्त्रिक गणतन्त्र नेपाल ), is a landlocked country in South Asia. It is mai ...

. As of 2022, the organization has trained and employed 250 journalists in 40 bureaus. In addition to print journalism, GPI training includes photo and video journalism.

Mission and Impact

Global Press creates a more informed and inclusive world by training and employing local women journalists to report news in their own communities, some of the world's least-covered places. GPI reporters have covered a range of issues such as caste discrimination and political rape. Founder Hegranes has said more than 25 percent of GPI's reporting has created

social change Social change is the alteration of the social order of a society which may include changes in social institutions, social behaviours or social relations. Definition Social change may not refer to the notion of social progress or sociocult ...

in the form of

protest A protest (also called a demonstration, remonstration or remonstrance) is a public expression of objection, disapproval or dissent towards an idea or action, typically a political one. Protests can be thought of as acts of coopera ...

s, attracting

media Media may refer to: Communication * Media (communication), tools used to deliver information or data ** Advertising media, various media, content, buying and placement for advertising ** Broadcast media, communications delivered over mass el ...

attention, and helping to change laws in

and

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and some community policies in

Zambia Zambia (), officially the Republic of Zambia, is a landlocked country at the crossroads of Central Africa, Central, Southern Africa, Southern and East Africa, although it is typically referred to as being in Southern Africa at its most cent ...

Locations

In 2022, ''GPJ ''employed journalists in

Argentina Argentina (), officially the Argentine Republic ( es, link=no, República Argentina), is a country in the southern half of South America. Argentina covers an area of , making it the second-largest country in South America after Brazil, th ...

Democratic Republic of Congo The Democratic Republic of the Congo (french: République démocratique du Congo (RDC), colloquially "La RDC" ), informally Congo-Kinshasa, DR Congo, the DRC, the DROC, or the Congo, and formerly and also colloquially Zaire, is a country in ...

Haiti Haiti (; ht, Ayiti ; French: ), officially the Republic of Haiti (); ) and formerly known as Hayti, is a country located on the island of Hispaniola in the Greater Antilles archipelago of the Caribbean Sea, east of Cuba and Jamaica, and ...

India India, officially the Republic of India (Hindi: ), is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by area, the second-most populous country, and the most populous democracy in the world. Bounded by the Indian Ocean on the so ...

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Mexico Mexico (Spanish: México), officially the United Mexican States, is a country in the southern portion of North America. It is bordered to the north by the United States; to the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; to the southeast by Guatema ...

Mongolia Mongolia; Mongolian script: , , ; lit. "Mongol Nation" or "State of Mongolia" () is a landlocked country in East Asia, bordered by Russia to the north and China to the south. It covers an area of , with a population of just 3.3 million, ...

Puerto Rico Puerto Rico (; abbreviated PR; tnq, Boriken, ''Borinquen''), officially the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico ( es, link=yes, Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, lit=Free Associated State of Puerto Rico), is a Caribbean island and Unincorporated ...

Sri Lanka Sri Lanka (, ; si, ශ්‍රී ලංකා, Śrī Laṅkā, translit-std=ISO (); ta, இலங்கை, Ilaṅkai, translit-std=ISO ()), formerly known as Ceylon and officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, is an ...

Uganda }), is a landlocked country in East Africa East Africa, Eastern Africa, or East of Africa, is the eastern subregion of the African continent. In the United Nations Statistics Division scheme of geographic regions, 10-11-(16*) territor ...

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and

Zimbabwe Zimbabwe (), officially the Republic of Zimbabwe, is a landlocked country located in Southeast Africa, between the Zambezi and Limpopo Rivers, bordered by South Africa to the south, Botswana to the south-west, Zambia to the north, and Mozam ...

Training

Training is provided in the prospective journalist's local language; English proficiency is not a requirement. Some GPI journalists have only a fourth-grade literacy level. GPI currently provides training in six languages. GPI implements a training-to-employment mode. Trainees enroll in a 16-week program, during which they learn the principles and practice of

through classroom-style training and direct content-production. Upon completion of the training, graduates are offered full-time, paid employment with
Global Press Journal
'. The journalists are offered professional development opportunities and refresher courses throughout their employment at ''Global Press Journal''.

Funding and Support

GPI does not accept government funding or anonymous support. It currently relies on individual and institutional donors, with plans to move towards sustainability through syndication revenue generated from Global Press News Services. Its donors include the

MacArthur Foundation The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation is a private foundation that makes grants and impact investments to support non-profit organizations in approximately 50 countries around the world. It has an endowment of $7.0 billion and p ...

Emerson Collective Emerson Collective is a for-profit corporation focused on education, immigration reform, the environment, media and journalism, and health. Founded by Laurene Powell Jobs, this limited liability company (LLC) uses philanthropy, impact investing, ...

, Luminate, Fondation CHANEL, and The

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Foundation.

''Global Press Journal''

Global Press Journal
''is an award-winning multilingual news publication featuring stories from Global Press reporters across its news bureaus. Each employee earns a

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as well as access to continuing education. Global Press offers ongoing training to its reporters, including on topics such as

climate change In common usage, climate change describes global warming—the ongoing increase in global average temperature—and its effects on Earth's climate system. Climate change in a broader sense also includes previous long-term changes to E ...

and other issues, as well as professional development and technical skills. The reporters cover a range of topics including

arts The arts are a very wide range of human practices of creative expression, storytelling and cultural participation. They encompass multiple diverse and plural modes of thinking, doing and being, in an extremely broad range of media. Both hi ...

and

culture Culture () is an umbrella term which encompasses the social behavior, institutions, and norms found in human societies, as well as the knowledge, beliefs, arts, laws, customs, capabilities, and habits of the individuals in these groups.Tyl ...

business Business is the practice of making one's living or making money by producing or Trade, buying and selling Product (business), products (such as goods and Service (economics), services). It is also "any activity or enterprise entered into for pr ...

climate Climate is the long-term weather pattern in an area, typically averaged over 30 years. More rigorously, it is the mean and variability of meteorological variables over a time spanning from months to millions of years. Some of the meteorologic ...

community A community is a social unit (a group of living things) with commonality such as place, norms, religion, values, customs, or identity. Communities may share a sense of place situated in a given geographical area (e.g. a country, village, tow ...

economic justice Justice in economics is a subcategory of welfare economics. It is a "set of moral and ethical principles for building economic institutions". Economic justice aims to create opportunities for every person to have a dignified, productive and creativ ...

education Education is a purposeful activity directed at achieving certain aims, such as transmitting knowledge or fostering skills and character traits. These aims may include the development of understanding, rationality, kindness, and honesty. Va ...

environment Environment most often refers to: __NOTOC__ * Natural environment, all living and non-living things occurring naturally * Biophysical environment, the physical and biological factors along with their chemical interactions that affect an organism or ...

, gender justice,

health Health, according to the World Health Organization, is "a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease and infirmity".World Health Organization. (2006)''Constitution of the World Health Organiza ...

human rights Human rights are Morality, moral principles or Social norm, normsJames Nickel, with assistance from Thomas Pogge, M.B.E. Smith, and Leif Wenar, 13 December 2013, Stanford Encyclopedia of PhilosophyHuman Rights Retrieved 14 August 2014 for ce ...

migration Migration, migratory, or migrate may refer to: Human migration * Human migration, physical movement by humans from one region to another ** International migration, when peoples cross state boundaries and stay in the host state for some minimum le ...

, and

politics Politics (from , ) is the set of activities that are associated with making decisions in groups, or other forms of power relations among individuals, such as the distribution of resources or status. The branch of social science that studies ...

Editorial Process

''GPJ''’s model requires that each reporter choose her own story and report it exclusively for Global Press. The stories are published in English and their local language, and all of them adhere to th
Global Press Style Guide
a living document that establishes rules for referring to people and places in Global Press' coverage communities and promotes dignity and precision in international journalism. All of the stories are "certified as accurate" by the Global Press Accuracy Network, a team of editors, copy editors, fact checkers, researchers, translators, and interpreters, who together uphold the highest standards of journalism.

Awards

Global Press and its reporters have received international awards and accolades including: *2022 Grand Stevie Award, Stevie Awards for Women in Business, awarded to Global Press Institute *2022 Community Award, Online News Association (ONA), awarded to Manori Wijesekera, Global Press training manager *2022 World Changing Ideas, Fast Company magazine, awarded to Global Press *2021 Emerson Collective Dial Fellowship, awarded to Cristi Hegranes *2021 Clarion Award for Online Journalism, Journalistic Excellence, awarded to GPJ reporter Shilu Manandhar, Global Press Nepal *2021 Webby Award, Best Practices on a Website, International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences, awarded to Global Press Journal *2021 Gold Medal, International Annual Report Design Awards, awarded to Global Press *2021 MUSE Creative Award, International Awards Associate, awarded to Global Press Journal *2021 Print Award (longlist), One World Media, awarded to GPJ reporter Shilu Manandhar, Global Press Nepal *2021 Award of Excellence, Society for News Design, awarded to Global Press Journal *2021 Award of Excellence, The Communicator Awards, awarded to Global Press and Global Press Journal *2020 Media Hero of the Year, Stevie Awards for Women in Business, awarded to GPJ reporters *2020 Best News Website, Vega Awards, awarded to GPJ reporter Merveille Kavira Luneghe, Global Press DRC *2020 Clarion Award for Online Journalism, Association for Women in Communications, awarded to GPJ reporter Gamuchirai Masiyiwa, Global Press Zimbabwe *2020 Clarion Award for Online Journalism, Association for Women in Communications, awarded to GPJ reporter Merveille Kavira Luneghe, Global Press DRC *2020 Clarion Award for Special Print Communication, Association for Women in Communications, awarded to Global Press *2020 Chester M. Pierce Human Rights Award, American Psychiatric Association, awarded to Global Press *2020 Refugee Reporting Award (shortlist), One World Media, awarded to GPJ reporter Merveille Kavira Luneghe, Global Press DRC *2019 GLG Social Impact Fellowship, GLG, awarded to Cristi Hegranes *2019 Award of Excellence, Society for News Design, awarded to GPJ reporter Merveille Kavira Luneghe, Global Press DRC *2019 Best Places to Work, Inc. Magazine, awarded to Global Press *2019 Women-Run Workplace of the Year, Stevie Awards, awarded to Global Press *2018, Clarion Award for Online Journalism, Association for Women in Communications, awarded to GPJ senior reporters Kalpana Khanal, Shilu Manandhar, and Yam Kumari Kandel *2018 Media Professionalism Award, Voluntary Media Council of Zimbabwe, awarded to GPJ reporter Vimbai Chinembiri, Global Press Zimbabwe *2017 LACP Vision Awards, League of American Communications Professionals, awarded to Global Press *2017 Leadership Council, Classy, awarded to Cristi Hegranes *2017 Top 100 Most Innovative Organizations in the World, Classy Awards, awarded to Global Press *2017 WeWork Creator Awards, Scale Award, WeWork, awarded to Global Press Institute *2016 Best News Mobile Website, Mobile Web Awards, awarded to Global Press Journal *2016 Best Editorial Writing (Honoree), Webby Awards, awarded to Global Press Journal *2015 Persephone Miel Fellowship, Pulitzer Center for Crisis Reporting, awarded to GPJ reporter Yam Kandel, Global Press Nepal *2015 Persephone Miel Fellowship, Pulitzer Center for Crisis Reporting, awarded to GPJ reporter Shilu Manandhar, Global Press Nepal *2015, Persephone Miel Fellowship, Pulitzer Center for Crisis Reporting, awarded to GPJ reporter Wairimu Michengi, Global Press Kenya *2014, Boehm Media Fellowship, Opportunity Collaboration, awarded to Cristi Hegranes *2013

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Award for Child Rights, awarded to Gloriose Isugi and Noella Nbihogo, Rwanda News Desk *2012 Zambian Reporter of the Year, HIV/AIDS and Gender-based Violence Coverage, awarded to ''GPJ ''reporter Chanda Katango, Zambia News Desk *2012 Excellence in Epilepsy Reporting, the International Bureau of Epilepsy, awarded to ''GPJ ''reporter Comfort Mussa, Cameroon News Desk *2011 Elizabeth Neuffer Fellowship, International Women's Media Foundation, awarded to ''GPJ ''reporter Jackee Batanda, Uganda News Desk *2011 Kurt Schork Award, Excellence in International Journalism, Reuters, awarded to ''GPJ ''reporter Gertrude Pswarayi, Zimbabwe News Desk *2011 Kurt Schork Award, Excellence in International Journalism Shortlist, Reuters, awarded to ''GPJ ''senior reporter Tara Bhattarai, Nepal News Desk *2010 Journalism Innovation Prize,

Society of Professional Journalists The Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ), formerly known as Sigma Delta Chi, is the oldest organization representing journalists in the United States. It was established on April 17, 1909, at DePauw University,2009 SPJ Annual Report, letter ...

, awarded to Global Press Institute *2008 One of the 21 Leaders of the 21st Century, Women's ENews, awarded to Cristi Hegranes *2008 Ida B. Wells Award for Bravery in Journalism, Women's ENews, awarded to Cristi Hegranes

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