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Programs
The Press Institute is an international nonprofit organization founded on the belief that journalism is a dynamic tool that fosters personal empowerment, community development and global awareness.
JOURNALISM TRAINING
The Press Institute delivers our original journalism training and subject-based reporting seminars to women and girls throughout the developing world. Our programs advance personal empowerment, foster community development, and promote global awareness. In addition, The Press Institute recognizes limited leadership and training opportunities available to media professionals. Our Specialty Reporting Curricula (see topics below) are available to individual news professionals, news outlets, and editorial boards.
Press Institute curricula are available for partnership or purchase. We have a proven program model that delivers fast, effective editorial and reporting training in conjunction with community media development. In the coming months we will also offer an online training module that will be available for purchase.
Journalism Education: A promise of excellence
The Press Institute's award-winning journalism training curricula have garnered wide-spread acclaim in large part because we fuse the basics (interviewing, investigation, writing, quoting etc.) with ethical decision-making skills. Press Institute journalism is regarded as strong, ethical, independent, accurate and important because of our unique approach to both the principles and the practice of the craft.
The following courses are available for partnership or purchase. They are available in a variety of modules, which can last from two-weeks to six months.
Journalism 101: The Principles and the Practice
(also available in Spanish, French, Nepali)
Modern Media Ethics: Our Media Environment and Your Place In It?
Reporting Community Issues on Every Scale
(recommended for high school, university and local newspapers/news blogs/magazines)
Beyond the Basics: Specialty Report
The Press Institute is proud to offer a distinguished array of specialty reporting seminars for news professionals or advanced Press Institute reporters. Our internationally renowned group of journalism trainers have designed original programs that will aid even the most experienced reporters enhance their coverage of challenging issues. If you are an editor or NGO manager who wants to increase coverage in a specific area or a reporter striving to improve your beat reportage, our Specialty Reporting Seminars will transform your practice. Some of our specialty reporting courses include:
- Reporting HIV/AIDS: Local & Global Perspectives
- Reporting the Environment: Global Warming, Politics & Innovative Solutions -- coming March 2010
- Reporting Gender Issues – Gender Justice & Reproductive Politics
- Community Development & Solutions-based Reporting
- The Art of Local Reporting: Trust, Context and Sources
- Credibility and The Citizen Journalist
- Reporting Finance in a Globalized World
- International Media Law – Specialty Seminars for Journalists Around the World (5 country programs currently available.)
Media Lectures and Seminars
Do you need a keynote speaker for an upcoming convention or event? Our executive staff and Board of Directors are sought-after professional speakers. They are available to speak on the following topics:
- Journalism as an International Development Initiative
- The Changing Free Press in America
- Journalism Values: A Retrospective
- International Media Ethics
- The Press Institute for Women in the Developing World: An international nonprofit journalism success story
- And many more!
Media Relations
The Press Institute recognizes that small businesses, corporations and nonprofit organizations often need help reaching out to local and national media outlets to get their stories heard in a fair and substantive way. We encourage a sound relationship between businesses and advocacy organizations and the press. The Press Institute offers several courses that help businesses and NGOs contact the media, give great interviews, and create organizational media messaging documents. We currently offer the following Media Relations courses:
- Media Messaging for Organizations
- Pitching the Story: 10 steps to getting your news covered
- Perfecting the Interview: Everything you need to know to give a great interview
Media Literacy
Journalism education doesn't just mean training journalists. It also means training people to navigate the increasingly complicated realms of modern media.
Our flagship Media Literacy program targets middle school students in the United States. How the News is Made: Becoming a Critical Consumer of the News is a revolutionary program that teaches young people to filter their sources of information and create their own definitions of truth and trust for today's American media market.
For more information about any of our training programs or to bring one of our trainers into your organization or classroom, call or email Cristi Hegranes cristi@globalpressinstitute.org today!
GLOBAL TRAINING SITES
Global Training Sites represent a holistic approach to educating the whole person. GTS harmoniously merge journalism training and employment of women and men in strong, ethical journalism, dissemination of original content via complementary News Desks, and promotion of community development through partner programs and opportunities, such as adult literacy, typing, and computer skills.
Our newest site in Nairobi, Kenya will launch in Winter 2010. We are taking our holistic approach one step further by launching our first social enterprise in Nairobi, Kenya — a full-service Women’s Media Center that will foster women’s empowerment by providing women affordable access to ICTs, while also generating earned income for the training site.
Community Development
The Press Institute broadens the reach and impact of our work through our global partnership network. By actively working with local, national, and global partners, The Press Institute builds trust, gains more credible sources and news tips, and enables thousands of women and youth to participate in empowering programs. Participants benefit through increased access to information and greater participation in community dialogue on key development issues.
Whether you represent an I-NGO, school or are an individual interested in developing a Press Institute Global Training Site in your community, we are eager to work with you. Our goal is to provide strong, ethical journalism training to people throughout the world in order to strengthen community, raise awareness about crucial societal issues, increase and encourage literacy, and provide empowering, gainful employment to individuals who choose journalism as a path to uplift themselves and their communities.
The Press Institute offers community development companion programs in every Global Training Site it operates around the globe. Our current Companion Program Openings are in Kathmandu and Nairobi.
The Press Institute recently launched our Social Entrepreneurship and Global Business Development initiative. Beginning in the Spring of 2010, The Press Institute will begin creating revenue-generating initiatives in the communities where we operate Global Training Sites. These businesses will support our core mission to educate and empower people, while also generating revenue for local programs.
We believe this model of social entrepreneurship will enable The Press Institute to continue to thrive and grow, even in the midst of a tumultuous global economic environment. By limiting reliance on grants, individual and corporate giving, the addition of a Global Business Development Office will enable The Press Institute to provide more quality journalism training programs, continue to publish exceptional content, operate stronger community development programs and fulfill our mission by allowing people everywhere to live freer, fuller lives with greater access to information.
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