Journalism Matters
500 news organizations mark World News Day by demonstrating the power of journalism to make a difference. Take a look at the following reports and features that are making an impact in an increasingly complex and uncertain world:
Rádio Gaúcha Zero Hora: Lawsuits over unfinished schools filed in nine states
The problem of the works suspended by construction company MVC goes far beyond the Rio Grande do Sul territory. Today, there are 9,700 projects for children’s schools and sports fields unfinished or paralyzed in Brazil. Of these, 1,200 are from MVC, according to an audit by the Federal Audit Court (TCU).
The Globe and Mail: In Nunavut, medical staff saw signs of a devastating TB outbreak. The government didn’t
A Globe investigation found nurses at Pangnirtung’s understaffed health centre were begging for help from the territorial government in the summer of 2021 as TB spread and officials held off on publicly declaring a crisis.
Rádio Gaúcha Zero Hora: Just over half of the 1,800 daycare centers of the federal Proinfância program in Rio Grande do Sul were completed
Companies that abandoned the works blame the lack of federal funds for the interruption in the construction of hundreds of centers promised for Rio Grande do Sul.
Süddeutsche Zeitung: The Uber Files
Who lobbied for Uber in Germany? How did the company go about it in other European countries? And how successful was it?
The Globe and Mail: Inuit group presses Nunavut government for transparency on tuberculosis
The president of a major Inuit organization has reiterated her call for transparency after The Globe and Mail published an investigation of a tuberculosis outbreak in Pangnirtung, a hamlet of about 1,500 people on Baffin Island.
#BehindTheHeadlines: Editor’s letter to Danish journalists shot in Ukraine
Two Danish journalists are “lucky to be alive” after being shot and injured in Ukraine while reporting on Russia’s invasion of the country. Ekstra Bladet Editor-in-Chief Knud Brix tells of their ordeal.
#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.