The ICFJ Forum: Helping Over 15,000 Journalists Cover Global Crises

By: 06/02/2023

The ICFJ Pamela Howard Forum on Global Crisis Reporting is a community of 15,000 journalists from 134 countries. Through Facebook groups, sessions with experts and newsletters – all in five languages – journalists worldwide get to meet, learn and collaborate.

Since the Forum was created in 2020, participants have benefited from over 260 webinars and trainings and more than 1,200 crisis-related resources in 8 languages. The Forum aims to expand coverage of critical issues of local importance such as disinformation, disease, climate change, rising authoritarianism, financial crises, technology disruptions and more.

“In the Middle East and North Africa, there are many, many journalists that don’t really have access to study journalism in the university because they live in a conflict area,” said Arabic-language Forum member Mais Katt. “Having a forum like [the Pamela Howard Forum] and getting all this education is really a great tool.”

Offered in Arabic, English, French, Portuguese and Spanish, the Forum also expands to in-person meetings where journalists connect with resources, experts and each other.

Journalists can join the Facebook groups here, subscribe to the newsletters here and watch past sessions on YouTube.

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