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09/07/2020
Capturing change: strategies for safely covering protests
A massive wave of solidarity protests against racial injustice have been staged across the United States and worldwide following a series of killings in the US,...
08/07/2020
Covid-19 training in Sudan gets smart on WhatsApp
An innovative online learning course to support the reporting of Covid-19 in Sudan has reached nearly 2000 people across all sectors of media. The course, desi...
23/06/2020
Photojournalism: the ethical challenges to covering Covid-19
This article by Savannah Dodd, founder of the Photography Ethics Centre, uses the key principles introduced in her Journalism Now e-learning course The Photogra...
11/06/2020
Talent pool gives advice on navigating the pandemic
Weve pooled advice from our international alumni to help journalists navigate their way through the Covid-19 pandemic. From what went wrong in the medias early...
05/06/2020
Rwandan journalist s study route to international publication.
Rwandan journalist Christophe Hitayezu first met the editorial team from The Guardian newspaper in London as part of a study tour in a programme to support medi...
01/06/2020
Sudan: Support for journalists in the global fight against Covid-19
A unique training course tailored specifically for Sudanese journalists has been devised to help them navigate the challenges of reporting the Covid-19 pandemic...
21/05/2020
MoJo Challenge: When a smartphone wins in Covid-19 coverage
Lebanese-based Nisrine Ajab has won the Thomson Foundation mobile journalism challenge and five others have been commended. Nisrine, who is from Beirut, along...
07/05/2020
A class of its own: is the e-Workshop here to stay?
The coronavirus pandemic has brought a temporary halt to face-to-face training programmes during lockdown - but prompted experiments with different types of vir...
05/05/2020
Supporting Greater Media Independence in the Western Balkans
The Western Balkans region remains beset by political instability, corruption and a chronic lack of transparency. The national media are often captured by veste...
23/04/2020
A coronavirus photo essay from Bologna, Italy
Award-winning documentary photographer and Thomson Foundation alumnus Marco Panzetti, achieved international recognition for his coverage of the global refugee ...
07/04/2020
The challenges of covering coronavirus: how we can help
Journalists across the globe face unprecedented challenges to report the coronavirus (Covid-19) outbreak accurately and safely. The fast-moving story is presen...
17/03/2020
Thomson Foundation's summer course - the alumni shaping media
Hundreds of frontline journalists have passed through the Thomson Foundation's prestigious summer course which aims to sharpen reporting skills and teach th...
17/03/2020
Thomson Foundation summer course 2020: dates and details
Thomson Foundation has announced the dates for its mobile multimedia journalism programme 2020. August 10 to September 11, 2020 In this intensive five-week ...
09/03/2020
Our Tech Challenge Winner: A Royal Visit And Much More
Patrick Obumselu, the winner of Thomson Foundations 2019 Commonwealth Digital Challenge, has been in London meeting mentors and receiving advice on progressing ...
06/03/2020
Highlighting violence against South African women
At just 26, Robin-Lee Francke is no stranger to violence against women, having been pistol-whipped, beaten and shot at in the course of her work as a crime repo...
04/03/2020
Working against the odds in Syria
When Waad Al Kateab began filming in an Aleppo hospital being destroyed by government forces, little could she imagine that her work would one day be nominated ...
04/03/2020
Reporting from the heart of Iraq s deadly protests
Pesha Magid became the trusted voice from Baghdad for many of the world's broadcasters and newspapers after an outbreak of anti-government protests in 2019....
04/03/2020
OPEN Media Hub: the story so far
A landmark project to support independent media in 17 countries bordering the European Union (EU) has been extended, as journalists tackle increasing threats to...
04/03/2020
Mobile journalism on tour
Mobile journalism went on tour with Thomson Foundation, delivering training sessions to 90 journalists in 90 days for international broadcaster, Al Jazeera. Th...
04/03/2020
Sudan s people power
The skills that Sudanese broadcaster, Rania Haroun, learned on the foundation's summer course played a direct role in helping her - and others - report on t...
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...
