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25/03/2023
Finding their voice - the women bringing parity to Pakistan's media
To increase women's participation; these four words, written down in four seconds, in a proposal can take months, if not years to achieve. Especially, wh...
24/03/2023
Rwanda: developing a course for investigative journalists in Rwanda.
When I started out as an investigative journalist, there were few practising journalists in Kenya to learn from or manuals that I could read to sharpen my skill...
23/03/2023
Journalift: Access all languages
Journalists in the Western Balkans have been given access to free resources and training in their own languages thanks to a unique platform launched by Thomson ...
22/03/2023
Ukraine: collaboration in time of war
One million refugees have been welcomed into Germany since the Russian invasion who aside from being far from home have lost contact with their community and in...
21/03/2023
Building the Resilience and Relevance of independent media
Millions of people in Tajikistan have read, watched and listened to an extraordinary social media campaign which has clearly shown the population's hunger f...
08/03/2023
Valley Voices: Accessing women s voices
It's August in Pakistan and much of the country is underwater. Catastrophic flooding has killed hundreds, left millions homeless and destroyed infrastructur...
15/02/2023
She Leads Media: Bettina Fellowship scales up at Africa Media Festival
A strong, fearless and effective media, where talent is recognised and rewarded regardless of gender. That's the goal of She Leads Media: Bettina Fellowshi...
07/02/2023
Bad news for false news: how we re countering misinformation in Sudan
Our pioneering WhatsApp course is leading the way in training journalists and citizens to spot misinformation and disinformation in Sudan - a country targeted b...
03/02/2023
Valley Voices: Empowering women in rural Pakistan
The finale of the third Valley Voices project saw women journalists and writers gain confidence in writing about some of the more controversial topics facing wo...
23/01/2023
Connect 6: Thomson Foundation launches mentor programme
Take six of the brightest young journalists and connect them to six of the best in the industry and you have the recipe for Connect 6', a new, world-class ...
10/01/2023
Unique new course on the art of writing news analysis
You're a journalist and news breaks that Pele, arguably the greatest footballer the world has ever known, has died. A colleague in your newsroom is assigned...
14/12/2022
A mobile masterclass for South African award winners
Two former winners of the Vodacom Young Journalist of the Year award in South Africa have finally been treated to their prize of an all-expenses paid trip to Lo...
08/12/2022
Why female journalists in Pakistan don t like coffee
Sabin Agha is a Pakistan-based documentary filmmaker, multimedia journalist and a blogger. She has been teaching women journalists at Tribal News Network (TNN)...
29/11/2022
Yashraj Sharma, Young Journalist Award 2022 Winner
Yashraj Sharma is the interim editor of the online news portal of The Kashmir Walla. He is the winner of the Thomson Foundation's Young Journalist Award 202...
25/11/2022
Yashraj Sharma, Young Journalist Award 2022 Finalist
Yashraj Sharma is the interim editor of the online news portal of The Kashmir Walla. He is a finalist in Thomson Foundation's Young Journalist Award 2022. ...
24/11/2022
Jyoti Yadav, Young Journalist Award 2022 Finalist
Jyoti Yadav is a journalist from New Delhi, working for India's fastest growing news website The Print. She is a finalist in Thomson Foundation's Young ...
23/11/2022
Carlos Ral Kestler, Young Journalist Award 2022 Finalist
Carlos Ra l Kestler is a 23-year-old journalist from Guatemala. He is a finalist in Thomson Foundation's Young Journalist Award 2022. Every time a tyre t...
21/11/2022
Empowered - a year on from winning the Young Journalist Award
One year ago, I woke up and was surprised to find out the great news that I was selected as the winner of Thomson Foundations Young Journalist Award 2021. This ...
07/11/2022
How to write news stories better
Ewen Macaskill introduces the second in his series of news writing courses for the Thomson Foundation - Advanced Writing: The art of storytelling Storytelling...
04/11/2022
New safety course for Ukrainian journalists
During a time of war, it's essential that journalists are prepared for any eventuality, however unlikely. With that in mind, Thomson Foundation has respon...
20/10/2022
Revealing the 2022 Young Journalist Award finalists
It has been tough three weeks for the panel of judges at the UK Foreign Press Association (FPA) who had the unenviable task of selecting three finalists for the...
19/10/2022
Environmental journalism courses now available in Arabic
Three landmark environmental training courses devised by the Thomson Foundation have been translated into Arabic as part of a major push to guide and inform loc...
28/09/2022
Young Journalist Award shortlist revealed
A remarkable number of entries arrived from all over the world for this years Young Journalist Award - Cameroon to Colombia, Ukraine to Uganda and Egypt to Ecua...
12/09/2022
Why Pakistan needs more women leaders
This article is written by Hudaibia Iftikhar, a blogger working in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) province of Pakistan. Despite being highly educated, she holds a ...
23/08/2022
Western Balkans footprints: Innovation in media training makes an impact
Running a media organisation in the Western Balkans (WB) is far from easy. A region beset by instability, corruption with challenges to media freedom which prov...
08/08/2022
WhatsApp misinformation course goes viral
A digital learning course on mis and disinformation delivered via the messaging platform WhatsApp has gone viral in Sudan. The first seven days after publicat...
28/07/2022
Why the environment crisis doesn t make news in Serbia
Dina or evi is a journalist with the Centre for Investigative Journalism of Serbia (CINS). She has won a number of national and international awards for her w...
01/07/2022
Fresh perspectives: Young Journalist Award 2022
Thomson Foundation is celebrating 60 years of promoting excellence in journalism and to mark the occasion, we're offering six rising stars the chance to con...
24/06/2022
Finding Africa s new voice
Hello, can you hear me? The zoom screen springs to life and the responses quickly follow. Yes, we can. Good morning . The greetings come from Kenya, Nigeri...
20/06/2022
A new chapter in a migration story
The crisis in Ukraine has again focused world attention on the plight of refugees and mass migration. It has also challenged journalists to report on the issue ...
10/05/2022
Changing the way news and stories about Africa are told
The moment you see your byline next to a story is a magical moment for any journalist. It brings with it a sense of relief, pride and hope that you'll get n...
06/05/2022
International success for Montenegrin mobile journalist
Success in our training programmes is measured in many ways but one of the most rewarding is reading or watching powerful stories produced by young journalists ...
25/04/2022
Shifting the focus: Sudan on the edge of change
A pioneering band of creatives in Sudan are promoting social change through photography. The Thomson Media training for digital media entrepreneurs formed part ...
31/03/2022
Telegram course: Reacting to a chemical attack
Chemical and biological weapons may be banned but that has not stopped them being used in recent conflicts and for journalists reporting on the war in Ukraine k...
25/01/2022
A vote of confidence: Empowering women politicians in Gagauzia
The look of politics in Gagauzia, the small autonomous territory in southern Moldova, is decidedly male. Just two of the 35 members of local parliament are wome...
13/01/2022
The Bettina Fund: Transforming women's careers
Eleven women who participated in the inaugural Bettina Fund - Women in Media Leadership programme say it will transform their careers as they have gained confid...
18/12/2021
Investigating Moldova: Journalists pick up two awards
Stories on ecology and corruption, developed with Thomson Media support, are among the best investigations of the year. By Dima Stoianov, media support expert ...
17/12/2021
Boosting media portrayals of minorities in the Western Balkans
Media in minority languages are relatively well developed, but one segment is significantly neglected in the six countries of the Western Balkans - Albania, Bos...
14/12/2021
The definitive guide to podcasting has arrived
Award-winning podcasters and journalists from the UK, India, Kenya, Australia and South Africa have joined forces to create what's believed to be the first ...
08/12/2021
Podcasts: Why I love audio
The 7th of January 1991 was a big day for me. It was the day I started working as a radio journalist. As someone who writes for a living, I'm supposed to a...
30/11/2021
Persistence pays off for the first ever Malaysian Young Journalist winner
PROFILE: Young Journalist Award 2021 winner It was Kai Hui Wong's persistence in her investigations which led her to reveal abuses of power that convin...
30/11/2021
Doing the groundwork: Monika Mondal wins our environmental prize
PROFILE: Young Journalist Award 2021 (environment) winner It's hard to believe that Monika Mondal only started her journalism career last year at the hei...
17/11/2021
Who are the Young Journalist Award 2021 finalists?
Three journalists - from India, and for the first time, Colombia and Malaysia - are the finalists for the 2021 Thomson Foundation Young Journalist Award, in par...
06/11/2021
We can change our migration narrative - election time is a good time to do it
By Eileen Truax Eileen is a journalist specialising in migration working with Thomson Media on Moving Voices - a project looking at cross border issues affectin...
02/11/2021
All fired up: The journalists addressing the climate emergency with words and actions
As world leaders gather for COP26, it is a pertinent time to showcase the work o...
20/10/2021
When diversity in newsrooms and newsleadership is not enough
In the latest in a series of personal reflections on womens role in the media, Luba Kassova, author of The Missing Perspectives of Women in News reflects on why...
16/10/2021
Meet the new generation of journalists making a mark
It's one of those points in the annual media calendar that early-career journalists await on the edge of their seats - and the moment has arrived. We can ...
06/10/2021
Women in media: Confronting the confidence gap
A confidence gap is a constant theme when discussing the lack of women in leadership positions in media. Why do women feel that they dont merit their success mo...
20/09/2021
Circular economy: Bringing the intellectually ambitious concept to life
Chances are, most things that currently surround you have been produced following the principles of the linear economy. From the clothes that you wear to the ph...
13/09/2021
Why we're all environmental journalists now
Journalists have a unique role to play in changing the narrative around the worlds environmental breakdown and becoming an essential part of the solution. Hear ...
