Global Press Institute

Global Press Institute (GPI) is a nonprofit organization that operates more than 40 news bureaus in more than a dozen countries in Asia, Africa, and Latin America. It trains and employs more than 250 women journalists to bring their insight and expertise to reporting for local and global audiences and has created field-wide resources including an asset-based Style Guide and an industry-leading Duty of Care for its reporters. MacArthur funds support GPI’s general operations, with the goal of supporting more accurate and representative reporting from under-covered parts of the world, by journalists with cultural and language competencies.

Global Press Institute operates over 40 news bureaus with a global team of over 250 mostly women reporters and editors to cover the most under-reported parts of the world. Its unparalleled recruiting, training and employment practices ensure that Global Press reporters pursue the highest standards of journalism while earning strong salaries with long-term contracts and health care, as well as, the assurance of industry-leading safety and security protocols. The Global Press Journal (GPJ) attracts readers from nearly 200 countries and the Global Press News Service enables hundreds of local, national, and international news organizations to reprint GPJ articles. This grant provides general operating support, with the goal of supporting more accurate and representative reporting from under-covered parts of the world by journalists with cultural and language competencies.

Global Press Institute (GPI) is a nonprofit international reporting organization that recruits, trains, and staffs local women to report from its 21 foreign news desks. While GPI publishes its own digital journal, its primary distribution method is through 168 syndication partners, from media outlets such as Reuters, PRI’s The World, Vox, africanews.net, and Toronto Telegraph to nongovernmental organizations and educational institutions such as Human Rights Watch and the Georgetown School of Foreign Service. After nine years, it has demonstrated a viable and high-quality alternative to the high cost of sustaining foreign bureaus and proven that native reporters can and will tell stories that differ from news organizations that do not have deep understanding and access to a place and its people.

The Global Press Institute is an international news organization that trains and employs women journalists in sixteen countries across the Global South to cover under-reported, globally-relevant local stories. The journalism ranges from investigative reports to feature stories and is disseminated through local and international news publishers. With a budget less than $1 million and an international staff of nearly 100 reporters and editors, Global Press Institute represents an efficient new model for international journalism. This grant provides general support.