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IJNet Arabic's Mentoring Center for MENA Startups Opens for its Ninth Year

Are you a journalist based in the Middle East and North Africa? Are you eager to develop your own news media startup in a sustainable way? We have good news for you: Our IJNet Arabic Mentoring Center is now accepting applications for its ninth year and it's quite easy to apply. Just click here.

Announcing Leap: ICFJ's News Innovation Lab

How can media outlets build trust, when so many people doubt the credibility of news? This is one of the most pressing questions journalism faces today, and it has far-reaching implications not only for the industry but for our civic health. Addressing this and other urgent issues requires prodigious creativity, as well as the time and support for innovation – something few newsrooms have.

That’s why ICFJ has developed Leap, a news innovation lab. Our goal is not innovation simply for its own sake. We designed Leap to give newsrooms across the world the space to explore the most essential challenges confronting journalism today and to shape its future. We want to ease the risk and costs that inhibit innovation, especially for small and mid-sized independent news organizations.

ICFJ’s Global Crisis Reporting Forum Now Offering Trainings, Resources in Arabic

Arabic-speaking journalists have a valuable new resource to deepen their coverage of conflict, migration, climate change, health crises and more – ICFJ’s Pamela Howard Forum on Global Crisis Reporting.

The Forum, already available in English, French, Portuguese and Spanish, has expanded to serve Arabic speakers. Across five languages, the initiative connects journalists with resources, experts and each other to enhance reporting on critical global issues of local importance.

How Media Leaders in Latin America Are Building Stronger Businesses

When Elaine Miranda launched Nicaragua’s first personal finance blog in 2018, she hoped it would help her build up her finance coaching business. But an ICFJ fellowship program helped her realize that her website could become her business.

The program, Emerging Media Leaders, taught her the latest skills in content creation, monetization and business development, connected her with leaders in the field and provided her with a fellowship placement at Mother Jones, where her colleagues showed her how to make better use of social media, Miranda said.

Estão abertas as inscrições para 'Jogo Limpo', uma iniciativa em favor de eleições livres e bem informadas no Brasil

Criado pelo ICFJ e financiado pelo YouTube Brasil, o programa busca apoiar ideias para enfrentar a ‘enxurrada de mentiras’ esperadas para a campanha eleitoral de 2022.

Fact-checkers e jornalistas que estão comprometidos com a luta contra a desinformação no Brasil em ano eleitoral poderão receber apoio financeiro e tempo de mentoria no programa “Jogo Limpo”. A iniciativa, lançada hoje pela parceria do International Center for Journalists (ICFJ) com o YouTube Brasil, busca projetos inovadores que promovam o combate às notícias falsas que podem afetar o processo democrático brasileiro.

Applications Now Open for ‘Fair Game,’ an Initiative Backing Free and Fair Elections in Brazil

The ICFJ program, supported by YouTube Brazil, is seeking project ideas that will stem the ‘torrent of lies’ expected amid the country’s 2022 campaigns.

Fact-checkers and journalists in Brazil committed to fighting mis- and disinformation ahead of the country’s upcoming elections will receive additional support through an initiative announced today called “Jogo Limpo,” or “Fair Game.” The program, run by the International Center for Journalists (ICFJ) and supported by YouTube Brazil, will provide funding and mentorship for innovative projects that bolster the democratic process.

Elevate: Meet the 18 Organizations Joining ICFJ’s News Business Hub in 2022

Eighteen news outlets - in six regions of the world - will receive tailored support from a wide spectrum of entrepreneurial leaders and experts as part of Elevate, ICFJ’s news business hub. The goal is to help these small and medium news organizations become financially viable and serve their communities well into the future.

Journalism and the Pandemic Project: Assessing and Responding to COVID-19’s Long-Term Impacts

COVID-19 might not have resulted in the global news media extinction event predicted, but unrelenting waves of coronavirus over the past two years have taken a very significant toll on journalism globally.

For many journalists the prolonged and uncertain nature of the pandemic has presented a series of unique personal and professional challenges. Newsrooms were stretched to capacity, journalists became mentally and physically exhausted, some lost their lives to the virus, and many states used COVID-19 to restrict media freedom.

This Media Startup in Egypt is Helping Journalism Students Pitch to Global Outlets

Growing up in Egypt, Dina Aboughazala was displeased with the way mainstream Western media outlets covered her country. The reporting often fixated on the negative, leaving her disheartened.