World News Day | September 28, 2022
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World News Day is a global news media campaign to display support for journalism.
In 2022, World News Day will take place on September 28.
World News Day 2022 will build on previous campaigns to make a case for fact-based journalism and show how it has benefitted audiences.
In 2021, World News Day highlighted the critical importance of trustworthy journalism about the climate crisis. More than 500 news organizations came together to drive the message that credible journalism matters if people are to make informed decisions.
World News Day’s organizers, the World Editors Forum (WEF) and The Canadian Journalism Foundation (CJF), would like to thank past principal sponsor, Google News Initiative, sponsor Lippo Group, and in-kind supporters Global News and Cision.
To learn more about World News Day, please visit our FAQ page.
In the face of an ever changing and increasingly complex world, audiences have been seeking out credible and reliable voices to help them make sense of developments. This is how professional newsrooms make a difference. To do so, they must work at staying connected to their communities, fostering trust by voicing their concerns. They interpret events and help people join the dots to related issues, adding crucial perspective and context. These are among the ways that journalists make an impact. World News Day is a timely reminder of why good journalism matters.
Warren Fernandez, President, World Editors Forum & Editor-in-Chief, The Straits Times.
World News Day unites journalists, newsrooms and news audiences around the globe to share the stories that show the power of trustworthy journalism to make a difference to citizens and communities. No story matters more to the citizens of the world than the climate change crisis. World News Day 2021 focuses on this defining challenge of our times and the important role journalists play in providing vital facts about the future of our planet and its peoples.
Kathy English, Chair, The Canadian Journalism Foundation.
Fact-based journalism is making a difference
Journalists from more than 460 news organizations are marking World News Day by demonstrating the critical importance of reliable journalism in telling the story of climate change. Here, you will find a selection of their most impactful stories:
#BehindTheHeadlines: With journalism in Creole, Mensagem de Lisboa is reaching new audiences
As part of the build up to World News Day 2022, we are showcasing journalism from around the world that has had significant social impact. Here is a story about how community-focused news outlet Mensagem de Lisboa, based in Lisbon, Portugal, has been publishing professional journalistic content in Creole since December.
#BehindTheHeadlines: Investigating death at a sobering station in Wrocław, Poland
As part of the build up to World News Day 2022, we are showcasing journalism from around the world that has had significant social impact. Here is the backstory of the investigation that won Gazeta Wyborcza reporter Jacek Harłukowicz Poland’s top prize for journalism in 2021.
Singapore’s tallest fish farm to produce 2,700 tonnes of fish a year by 2023
High-rise living is not just for humans in Singapore. An eight-storey fish farm – the tallest in Singapore and the region – started operations in the first quarter of this year.
World News Day Founder: Climate change has long been a political football, but facts are sacred and cannot be bent
Climate change has long been a political football. But while everyone is entitled to an opinion, facts are sacred and cannot be bent.
Covid crisis points to climate challenge ahead
The Covid-19 experience has made plain how difficult it will be to forge a global consensus on tackling the climate crisis. The signs of this looming challenge, and the science behind it, grow clearer by the day.
THE REWILDING PROJECT
Aotearoa New Zealand’s braided rivers are internationally significant, but they’ve been systematically strangled, and in some cases, have left behind zombie rivers. As climate change threatens to make the problems worse, some academics and scientists are re-imagining what it means to live with rivers.
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