Stories and Articles About Our Work

  • Joydeep Gupta Wins Green Globe Award

    Monday, February 27, 2012
    Joydeep Gupta

    Joydeep Gupta, Director of EJN’s Third Pole Project, was honored at the 4th edition of The Green Globe Foundation Awards that took place at the Delhi Sustainable Development Summit (DSDS) 2012. Read more »

  • Libya’s Emerging Independent Media

    Saturday, February 25, 2012 - Aljazeera
    AlJazeera

    For more than 40 years, the media in Libya served as a propaganda tool for Colonel Muammar Gaddafi. But the revolution has brought change not just to the country's leadership, but also to its media environment. Over the past year, Libyans have seen an explosion in brand new media outlets. At least 120 print outlets have sprung up, as well as fresh alternatives on TV and radio. Meanwhile, a new generation of Libyan journalists are enjoying their newfound freedom of expression despite the lack of training and infrastructure. Read more »

  • Christophe Manzanga Boyomba

    Saturday, February 25, 2012
    Christophe Manzanga Boyomba

    Christophe is a lawyer who first entered his profession as a means of protecting individuals’ rights. He believes in helping the vulnerable through sharing knowledge: “Human rights work is a calling which isn’t based on money, but which helps people who don’t know about their rights, or who can’t protect their rights by themselves,” he says. Read more »

  • Jerry Nlandu Ngoma

    Friday, February 24, 2012
    Jerry Nlandu Ngoma

    Jerry Nlandu Ngoma thinks of himself as someone who serves others. It is this idea of service that drives his passion for logistics, and it gives him comfort. Perhaps appropriately, Jerry began his career as a logistics officer for a local seminary in 1996. Jerry stayed with the seminary for seven years, before branching into another sphere of service, the NGO world. Read more »

  • Can Logging and Conservation Coexist?

    Friday, February 17, 2012 - The New York Times
    New York Times

    Here’s a “Your Dot” contribution on forests as resources and reserves from James Fahn, the executive director of the Earth Journalism Network, a growing global network of communicators covering the environment. Read more »

  • Visualizing Media in Afghanistan

    Wednesday, February 15, 2012

    Extensive research into the use of media and access to communication technologies in Afghanistan can be visually explored through a new web site, which maps the most comprehensive survey of media access in the country to date.

    Map: Media Landscape in Afghanistan Read more »

  • Cross-Border Film Project Gives Turks and Armenians a Glimpse into Each Other’s Cultures

    Monday, February 13, 2012
    Students silloheted in an arch

    Despite the fact that they share a border, citizens of Turkey and Armenia rarely come in contact with one another. The two countries never established diplomatic relations after Armenia became an independent nation in 1991, due to tensions over Turkey’s refusal to recognize the Ottoman extermination of approximately 1 million Armenians in 1915 as genocide and Armenia’s conflict with Turkish ally Azerbaijan over the Nagorno-Karabakh enclave. The border between the two nations was closed in 1993 and has not reopened since. Read more »

  • A Video Improves Life for Disabled People in an Armenian Village

    Monday, February 13, 2012
    Man in a wheelchair navigates down a dirt road

    Marine Khachatryan knows everyone in the western Armenian village of Dalarik through her job as a social worker for Children of Armenia Fund’s Armavir branch. She noticed that in the village, people with disabilities often feel completely alone with their problems and concerns. Infrastructure to support the disabled is not developed in rural areas and people with disabilities face severe social integration problems.  Read more »

  • 30 Years: Internews empowers local media around the globe

    Friday, February 10, 2012 - Washington Business Journal
    Washington Business Journal

    Internews, an international nonprofit with offices in Washington, D.C., and Arcata, Calif., has been empowering local media around the world for the last 30 years. It has established training and production centers in local international markets, provided grants to independent media outlets, and worked in universities with up-and-coming journalists. Read more »

  • Local Innovation Leads in Afghanistan

    Thursday, February 9, 2012
    A woman works at a laptop

    Over the course of three days, Afghan developers, students and entrepreneurs utilized mobile and internet technology to create practical solutions to issues facing their country at the first-ever Kabul Innovation Lab. Read more »