Project Updates

After a year-long advocacy effort, Congolese community radio stations are now a significant step closer to enjoying improved legal status under Congolese law. Current conditions make it difficult for community radio stations in DRC to survive because they must pay the same license fees as other stations, but are prohibited from collecting advertising revenue.

Elsewhere around the world, community radio stations pay reduced or no license fees in recognition of the fact that they are a unique and important source of local news—one that is particularly critical across Africa. Read more »

“I hope that we’ll be able to meet in person someday,” says Ayal, a former Israeli soldier, to Jawad, a Palestinian activist, after they have communicated several times via a videoconference-satellite link in 1992. “I’d like to tell you what I’d have been doing if I were Palestinian. I think I would have fought against the occupation.” Read more »

In early September 2012, Internews’ Earth Journalism Network (EJN) brought eight Chinese journalists to the Seafood Summit in Hong Kong, where they received training from journalists and seafood experts, embarked on an intensive three-day field trip in southern China, and filed stories to their home media organizations. Read more »

Internews’ Earth Journalism Network has published and distributed a toolkit in four languages for journalists working on stories about food security and agro-ecology, the application of ecological science to the study, and design and management of sustainable agricultural ecosystems. The toolkit includes a wealth of useful statistics, information sources, links to further readings, journalism tips, and definitions of terminology. Read more »