World News Day | September 28, 2022
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World News Day is a global campaign to amplify the power and impact of fact-based journalism. This year, it will take place on Wednesday, September 28.
World News Day’s organizers, The Canadian Journalism Foundation (CJF) and WAN-IFRA’s World Editors Forum (WEF), expect more than 500 news organizations to use World News Day as a platform to demonstrate the value of fact-based journalism in effecting change.
The World News Day campaign will provide enhanced materials to help trusted global news organizations drive home the message that their Journalism Makes a Difference, and is worth promoting and defending.
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As the world around us grows more complex and crisis ridden, audiences seek out credible voices to help them make sense of developments. This is how professional newsrooms make a difference. They interpret events and help people join the dots, adding perspective and context. World News Day is a timely reminder of why good journalism matters.
Warren Fernandez, President, World Editors Forum & Editor-in-Chief, The Straits Times.
Undoubtedly, journalism matters to every citizen of the world. Without facts, freedom and democracy can fail. Journalism at its best can — and does — make a difference in the lives of individuals, our communities, our countries, and the future of our planet. This year, on World News Day 2022, we celebrate the power of fact-based journalism to make a difference
Kathy English, Chair, The Canadian Journalism Foundation.
Fact-based journalism is making a difference
More than 500 news organizations from around the world mark World News Day by demonstrating the power of journalism to make a difference. 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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