Profile: The Press Institute

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The Press Institute

member since February 2, 2011

http://www.globalpressinstitute.org/

About The Press Institute

The Press Institute is an international organization dedicated to bringing responsible, investigative news from the developing world to communities throughout the globe.

Our primary focus is training women from underprivileged, underrepresented communities to become powerful, conscientious journalists, reporting on the social, economic, political, and environmental issues that directly affect their countries and communities. Our training-to-employment model not only provides PI reporters with the highest quality investigative journalism skills, it also ensures the economic self-sustainability of our journalists, a dual component of our mission.

Since 2006, The Press Institute has trained over 100 women in 23 countries across the world to be award-winning reporters. We currently have 91 reporters publishing daily and monthly via the Press Institute’s online Newswire and over 30 community partner radio and print outlets in Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the United States.

What is Spot.us?

Spot.Us is an open source project to pioneer "community powered reporting." Through Spot.Us the public can commission and participate with journalists to do reporting on important and perhaps overlooked topics. Contributions are tax deductible and we partner with news organizations to distribute content under appropriate licenses.