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Global Challenges, Global Reporting |
Lake Victoria near Kisumu, Kenya, Apr. 2010 taken during Media21 Food & Climate Change Workshop and the related field trip. Find other pictures by Samuel Rodriguez on Flyckr here
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Media21 is a Geneva-based initiative launched in 2006 by a team of international journalists to expand and improve media coverage of key global issues, including climate change, the environment, human rights, migration, peace-keeping and security, public health, trade, corporate social responsibility.
It aims to train and nurture a global network of journalists with enhanced commitment, perspective, technical knowledge and official access to report effectively on the most complex challenges of our time.
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- Food and Climate change workshop Blog
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- The President of the Philippines presented Imelda Abano the 2010 National Commission for Culture and the Arts Ani ng Dangal Awards for her reporting during the Media 21 trip in Haiti as part of its "Access to Health" workshop in Geneva, June 2008. The article had won the UN Gold Medal on Humanitarian and Development Reporting. see awarded article
- Neway Tsegaye was selected by an international jury as the third prize recipient of the Stop TB Partnership Award for Excellence in Reporting on Tuberculosis in Cancun, Mexico on 3rd Dec.
- Imelda Abano was a recipient of the 10 Young Leaders Award in the Philippines given out by the Philippines' Graphic Magazine for her reporting done under the Media 21 Fellowship trip in Haiti during the "Access to Health" workshop (Geneva - Haiti June 2008)
- Pakistani journalist Shabina Faraz won her country's joint UNESCO 2009 Green Journalist Award for best feature reporting. Pakistani Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani awarded Faraz 1st prize for her role in environmental awareness raising at a ceremony in Islamabad on 19 November, 2009.
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After every workshop, articles written by Media21 journalists are compiled and published in our ON ASSIGNMENT magazine.
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Human Rights 10
Feb 2010
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Food & Climate I
Apr 2010
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Human Rights 11
May 2010
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