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30/01/2020
Kenyan journalist named Journalism Now Scholar winner
An innovative journalism competition organised by Thomson Foundation has been won by Kenya-based journalist, Thomas Mwiraria, who wrote a graphic piece about a ...
28/01/2020
Media Freedom: Changing Times for Rwandan Journalists
Lots of overseas journalists visit the Guardian's morning news conference at its London headquarters. Few are invited to speak and fewer still have had the ...
24/12/2019
Empowering Investigative Journalism in Rwanda through the Right of Access to Information.
An unexpected - and shocking - reminder of the genocide in Rwanda came during a ...
23/12/2019
Climate Change and Environment: Helping journalists raise awareness in Lesotho
The landlocked mountain kingdom of Lesotho faces serious environmental challenges, many of which will become more severe, due to the impact of climate change, w...
21/12/2019
Climate Change: Helping journalists raise awareness in Lesotho
The landlocked mountain kingdom of Lesotho faces serious environmental challenges, many of which will become more severe, due to the impact of climate change, w...
26/11/2019
Human stories behind the data crunch: Pakistan's Young Journalist winner
In the odd times through which we are living - with the game-changing Wikileaks, the elaborate Panama Papers, the Snowden revelations of top-secret surveillance...
12/11/2019
The truth about fake news in Africa
What's the best to way deal with fake news? Should TV and radio give equal airtime to every candidate in a presidential election? And how can we be sure jou...
06/11/2019
Commonwealth Digital Challenge: winner revealed
An ambitious proposal to ensure justice for survivors of sexual abuse in Nigeria is the winner of the 2019 Commonwealth Digital Challenge, a competition designe...
11/10/2019
Trio of talent: Young Journalist 2019 finalists revealed
There are some particularly powerful examples of how investigative journalism prompted national debate, remarks Thomson Foundation chief executive, Nigel Baker....
21/09/2019
Putting all people first: Meet the 2019 shortlisted Young Journalists
From sword-wielding gangs in Sri Lanka inspired by the movies and the residents of Assam declared stateless in India, to the mysterious death of a Kashmiri in c...
24/08/2019
Ugandan teens use smartphones to share life stories
Which way would you hold the phone if you were filming for TV? ask trainers, Kate Middleton and Feras Saleh. I have never seen a TV came a reply. It was th...
15/08/2019
Global talent, global reach
Step inside this year's Thomson Foundation summer course in London where we influence international journalists to mastermind innovation, imagination and mo...
14/08/2019
Winning has a transformative impact, say Young Journalist winners
An eye-opening experience which has given him the courage and zeal to pursue the stories that really matter is how one journalist described winning the Young Jo...
19/07/2019
Diverse group s competitive advantage in Journalism Now Team Challenge
A new Thomson Foundation competition, the Journalism Now Team Challenge, has been won by a team of four reporters spread across four countries: Jordan, Libya, M...
11/07/2019
Nothing but the truth: the young journalists defending media freedom
Concern over the growing threat to the safety of journalists is at the heart of an international campaign to defend media freedom. Led by the UK and Canadian ...
11/06/2019
Queen s birthday honours recognise Thomson Foundation trustee
One of Thomson Foundation's longest-serving trustees has received a knighthood for his humanitarian work in the birthday honours of Britain's Queen Eliz...
09/05/2019
Egyptian mojo winner joins crushed commuters on Cairo train
Now in its fifth year, the Thomson Foundation mobile journalism ( mojo') competition, in partnership with Mojofest, has allowed journalists from around the ...
09/05/2019
Egyptian mojo winner joins crushed commuters on crammed Cairo train
Now in its fifth year, the Thomson Foundation mobile journalism ( mojo') competition, in partnership with Mojofest, has allowed journalists from around the ...
15/04/2019
Commonwealth Digital Challenge: Judging panel named
Thomson Foundation announces an exceptional judging panel for the Commonwealth Digital Challenge 2019: Media Tech Accelerator. The three judges are Kate Adams...
11/04/2019
Collaborating to cover "Qumar"
After decades of peace, tensions have flared and fighting has broken out in the Sultanate of Qumar. International and local news organisations are scrambling ...
09/04/2019
Bringing the brightest journalism talent to London
Every summer, organisations around the world send us their best journalists to participate in the Thomson Foundation summer course. Based at our London headqua...
02/04/2019
Digital revenue training to drive media success
The world is changing, and technology is taking the lead. Today, everything is going digital, which means traditional media outlets are having to jump online to...
15/03/2019
Fresh efforts in Brussels to support the future of Syria
Senior figures from scores of countries and international organisations gathered for a three-day European Union-hosted conference on Syria, in which journalists...
15/03/2019
Thomson Foundation summer course 2019: dates and details
Thomson Foundation has announced the dates for its mobile multimedia journalism programme 2019. This intensive five-week course in London brings together digita...
14/03/2019
Saluting seven outstanding (female) journalists for International Women s Day
To mark International Womens Day, we salute the seven female journalists featured in our latest review for their brave reporting, often in regions that are war-...
08/03/2019
The seven outstanding (female) journalists from our 2018 review
To mark International Womens Day, we salute the seven female journalists featured in our latest review for their brave reporting, often in regions that are war-...
02/03/2019
New success for the winner of the Commonwealth Digital Challenge
A campaigner for conflict prevention in northern Kenya has won a scholarship to study the topic at the University of London - partly thanks to his experience in...
28/02/2019
Strengthening quality journalism in the Western Balkans
Thomson Foundation has long had a commitment to help strengthen quality journalism in the Western Balkans, and this will continue in 2019 with an expanded progr...
28/02/2019
A journey through love, motherhood, war and survival in Syria
In 2017, young Syrian filmmaker Waad Al Kateab received a special award from the Thomson Foundation to recognise her outstanding coverage of the suffering in th...
28/02/2019
Blended learning: Thomson Foundation transcends the classroom
The growing percentage of journalists and communicators having affordable access to smartphones and the internet means they no longer have to wait for classroom...
26/02/2019
New skills to help journalists in Belarus find new audiences
Regional media in Belarus are being helped to find a more modern voice - to deal with the complex challenges presented by their belated entry to the Internet Ag...
26/02/2019
"My heart beats faster when I have a story" - Wendy Funes
Honduran journalist Wendy Funes received special recognition at the Index Freedom of Expression Awards in 2018 for her hard-hitting investigative journalism. ...
24/01/2019
Sudan: fair and accurate reporting in a time of crisis
Three journalists trained by Thomson Foundation have banded together in efforts to ensure coverage of Sudan's deadly uprising is fair, accurate and verifiab...
23/01/2019
Why reporters shouldn t make predictions
One of the first rules for reporters should be Don't Make Predictions'. It is popular at the start of a new year for journalists to write about the yea...
17/01/2019
2019 - A year of Visual Storytelling for audio creators
This time last year I said 2018 was going to be the year of the podcast and it certainly seems to have been for some us at least. Nearly 6 million adults in the...
14/01/2019
Why journalists shouldn t make predictions
One of the first rules for reporters should be Don't Make Predictions'. It is popular at the start of a new year for journalists to write about the yea...
11/01/2019
2018: MoJo Evolution not Revolution
A summary of an article by mobile journalism expert Wytse Wellinga produced for our Journalism Now e-learning platform on the best of 2018 and the year ahead. ...
08/01/2019
Broadcast regulation a priority for Thai media
The future regulation of the world's five most popular and best performing tech companies - Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Netflix and Google - was top of the age...
04/01/2019
The "Facebookification" of Instagram and other Stories
One person who should be glad to see the back of 2018 is Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg. It's fair to say that last year was a catalogue of disasters for...
03/01/2019
New skills to help journalists in Belarus find new audiences.
Regional media in Belarus are being helped to find a more modern voice - to deal with the complex challenges presented by their belated entry to the Internet Ag...
02/01/2019
Summer course: making multimedia work.
The corner of London that has become home to Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, the shame attached to drying your underwear in public in India and the lessons fo...
27/11/2018
Russian reporter, Alisa Kustikova, is the 2018 Young Journalist winner
Alisa Kustikova, an investigative reporter from Russia, has won the 2018 Thomson Foundation Young Journalist Award. The prize, part of the UK Foreign Press Ass...
23/11/2018
Quiet reportage: documenting the migrant experience
Multi-award winning photographer, Marco Panzetti, has invested significant periods of time making images that matter. His work on migration was exhibited in Tun...
19/11/2018
"We re in this together" - exploring journalism s public role
Democracy rests on a vibrant, independent and truthful media and it's important that communities across the world are served by such a media, which is why, ...
31/10/2018
Images of Yemen s secret society revealed in exhibition
A Yemeni photojournalist, trained by Thomson Foundation, produced work that even experienced photographers from the Middle East had not seen before. An exhibiti...
22/10/2018
Widening Wavelengths: learning and exchange for Ukrainian radio
Podcasts are having a moment. The beauty is that anyone with a microphone and editing software can tell stories and share their opinions. There are even apps to...
20/10/2018
Out with the old school. Digital storytelling in sub-Saharan Africa
Initiatives such as UNICEF Gen2030, which aims to get every young person into quality education, training or employment by 2030, are helping to fill the gulfs o...
08/10/2018
Announcing the 2018 Young Journalist Award final trio
Three journalists from Pakistan - and for the first time - Vietnam and Russia, are the finalists for the 2018 Thomson Foundation Young Journalist Award. The p...
06/10/2018
UN General Assembly: overcoming a distorted narrative on migration
When you stand up for the dignity of human beings, you are immediately perceived as politicised, said Francesco Rocca, president of the International Red Cross ...
04/10/2018
UNGA: Overcoming a distorted narrative on migration
When you stand up for the dignity of human beings, you are immediately perceived as politicised, said Francesco Rocca, president of the International Red Cross ...
