Offering talented local women journalistic training and assigning them as journalists. Through this approach, Global Press aims to bring out stories that currently fail to make the news. After all, there is much more to the world than war, poverty, disasters and disease.
Much of the news production is largely ‘parachute journalism’. Reporters – often men – visit a country for a few days to report on a disaster or war, without any knowledge of the local context. As a result, important social issues are overlooked. When in fact, social change relies on stories from within.
Worldwide network
It is precisely these kinds of stories that Global Press wants to capture by training local women as reporters. With journalist training and a fixed contract, they become the storytellers who contribute to change. With a worldwide network developed over the last seventeen years, Global Press is able to distribute the stories through a variety of media channels.
Stories both big and small
Dioraphte’s contribution has made it possible to scale up the approach in Africa. In Kenya, a hundred new reporters from the English-speaking part of the continent receive training. In the future, these people will be able to report the stories both big and small that are often overlooked by the media and press agencies.
