Promoting Diversity of Voices in the Media
BANGLADESH: Launch the country's first female broadcast news agency that will provide stories on human rights and social issues to 10 independent television stations.
BOLIVIA: Create a digital platform enabling rural radio stations to share programming on important issues such as poverty, education and farmers' rights.
BRAZIL: Work with investigative journalism group ABRAJI to build a network of rural journalists able to report on land reform, poverty and corruption. Launch a Web site dedicated to the new group that will make print and multimedia stories available to mainstream media.
EL SALVADOR: Deliver interactive coverage that increases the profitability of elfaro.net, El Salvador's premier independent news Web site, and serves as a model of digital news delivery for other Central American countries.
GUATEMALA: Established a Web platform that enables radio stations serving indigenous Guatemalan communities to share news content with one another and with stations targeting Guatemalan immigrant communities in the United States.
INDIA: Train citizen journalists in India's tribal areas to convert their oral tradition into written, audio and video stories.
JORDAN/EGYPT/PALESTINE: Establish investigative reporting units at five news organizations in the Middle East to provide in-depth coverage of health, environmental and social issues rarely covered by the media now.
JORDAN/LEBANON: Produce television documentaries on social issues affecting both countries; inspire launch of Jordanian television program based on the regional model.
SYRIA: Build Syria's first online community of young journalists covering social issues. Worked with the U.N. Development Program Syria to help young print, broadcast and online journalists produce stories on issues including the environment, health and religious tolerance.
Expanding Environmental Coverage
INDIA: Develop first environmental journalism program at prominent research institute; initiate pollution alert system on cell phones and Internet mapping of environmental threats for New Delhi residents.
INDONESIA: Launch weekly sections and shows dedicated to the environment at regional newspapers and radio stations; boost capacity, resources and membership of local environmental journalism association.
Advancing Good Governance
AZERBAIJAN: Set up the country's first network of online journalists who deliver reports on local political and social issues to independent, national Web sites.
BALKANS: Create a comprehensive database on corporate and government business practices in the Balkans and Eastern Europe; train journalists to use that powerful new tool to expose corruption.
GHANA: Create a manual, voters' guide and training programs to promote fair coverage of elections.
GUINEA: Work with reporters at the country's first independent, licensed radio stations to help them monitor the effectiveness of government in rural communities.
INDIA: Create the country’s first Web site of previously unreported government data and train journalists to use this data for stories. Form an online news association to promote greater government transparency.
LIBERIA: Launch an association of criminal justice reporters that monitors and investigates the country's new judicial system and courts; produce manuals that guide media coverage of the government's poverty-reduction efforts.
MEXICO: Work with new civic organization dedicated to free expression. The new organization helps journalists use Mexico's access-to-information law and master their legal rights in a society where the media are harassed with impunity.
MEXICO: Give Mexican journalists new skills and tools to investigate corruption; create new corps of investigative reporters; develop databases that expose corruption and help hold officials accountable.
PAKISTAN: Build new in-depth reporting team at leading broadcast network; produce and distribute first Urdu-language and Sindhi-language television production manuals.
PANAMA: Develop a digital mapping system that uses citizen reports to track crime and corruption; train local journalists on how to use the online map and help them produce investigative reports that analyze trends in crime and corruption.
PHILIPPINES: Create an online news feed so that rural residents can provide first-hand accounts on the effectiveness of government anti-poverty programs to major media outlets.
RWANDA: Produce balanced, accurate radio news reports to counter biased programming that incites ethnic tensions; launch English-language newscast to reach growing number of English-speaking listeners in Rwanda and the region.
SERBIA: Raise financial literacy in Serbia and the region by creating teams of sophisticated business journalists that investigate corruption and hold companies accountable.
Saving Lives Through Better Coverage of Poverty and Health
GHANA: Create new networks linking professional journalists at major news outlets with local and citizen journalists in rural areas via mobile technology. The new teams will focus on issues such as agriculture, rural development, sanitation and microfinance.
KENYA: Generate coverage at leading news outlets that improves health care through better public policy; launch "Science Cafe" where journalists regularly meet with health experts; build health journalism association linked to regional counterparts.
MOZAMBIQUE: Help build the country's first nationwide network of health journalists; create new networks for rural and urban journalists to exchange information on health issues and policy.
SENEGAL: Create new networks linking professional journalists at major news outlets with local and citizen journalists in rural areas via mobile technology. The new teams will focus on issues such as agriculture, rural development, sanitation and microfinance.
SOUTH AFRICA:
TANZANIA: Create new networks linking professional journalists at major news outlets with local and citizen journalists in rural areas via mobile technology. The new teams will focus on issues such as agriculture, rural development, sanitation and microfinance.
UGANDA: Develop new health section in leading national newspaper; relaunch health journalism association that produces a newsletter and organizes workshops for health journalists across the region.
ZAMBIA: Launch country's first nationwide network of health journalists; create new networks for rural and urban journalists to exchange information on health issues and policy.
Launching Journalism Education Programs
EAST TIMOR: Establish the country's first university journalism program; help students launch and operate first college radio station; create first team of Timorese journalism trainers; produce first national newscasts for rural radio stations.
INDIA: Launch the International Media Institute of India (IMII), an independent, post-graduate journalism school in New Delhi. IMII will create a professional corps of journalists who are ready to enter India's booming media market.
KENYA AND TANZANIA: Create a local, non-profit organization that helps urban reporters for the first time cover conditions in Tanzania's countryside; develop a dedicated business news section at new independent newspaper in Kenya.
LATIN AMERICA: Create Latin America’s first digital journalism center to teach a new generation of Spanish-language journalists to produce quality interactive news.