TORONTO, June 29, 2022 /CNW/ – World News Day, a worldwide marketing campaign to amplify the ability and impression of fact-based journalism, will happen on Wednesday, September 28, 2022.
This yr, World Information Day’s organizers, The Canadian Journalism Foundation (CJF) and WAN-IFRA’s World Editors Forum (WEF), count on greater than 500 information organizations to make use of World Information Day as a platform to reveal the worth of fact-based journalism in effecting change.
The World Information Day marketing campaign will present enhanced supplies to assist trusted world information organizations drive dwelling the message that their Journalism Makes a Distinction and is price selling and defending.
Why it issues:
“Journalism issues to each citizen of the world,” says Kathy English, chair of The Canadian Journalism Basis. “With out info, freedom and democracy can fail. Journalism at its finest can – and does – make a distinction within the lives of people, our communities, our international locations, and the way forward for our planet. This yr, on World Information Day 2022, we rejoice the ability of fact-based journalism to make a distinction.”
“Because the world round us grows extra advanced and disaster ridden, audiences search out credible voices to assist them make sense of developments,” says Warren Fernandez, President of the World Editors Discussion board (WEF) and Editor-in-Chief of The Straits Instances in Singapore. “That is how skilled newsrooms make a distinction. They interpret occasions and assist individuals be part of the dots, including perspective and context. World Information Day is a well timed reminder of why good journalism issues.”
In 2021, 500 information organizations took half in World Information Day. From the Monetary Instances and the Guardian, to the Fiji Solar and The Sacramento Bee, World Information Day touched six continents, generated greater than 2 hundred million impressions on social media, and impressed significant world conversations on the ability and impression of journalism. Nonetheless, the necessity for reliable data and regarded evaluation has hardly ever been larger.
How your information group can participate:
World Information Day 2022 is a chance to focus on the worth and impression of your journalism on a really world stage.
To affix the marketing campaign and get acknowledged as a taking part newsroom on the World Information Day web site, conform to promote World Information Day 2022 on September 28 throughout your platforms and social media channels, and share one piece of journalism that has made a distinction.
World Information Day 2022 is supported by Google Information Initiative.
Cision is the unique distribution associate of the CJF.
About The Canadian Journalism Basis (CJF):
Established in 1990, The Canadian Journalism Foundation promotes, celebrates, and facilitates excellence in journalism. The inspiration runs a prestigious annual awards and fellowships program that includes an business gala the place information leaders, journalists and company Canada collect to rejoice excellent journalistic achievement and the worth {of professional} journalism. By month-to-month J-Talks, a public audio system’ sequence, the CJF facilitates dialogue amongst journalists, enterprise individuals, lecturers and college students concerning the position of the media in Canadian society and its ongoing challenges within the digital period. The inspiration additionally fosters alternatives for journalism schooling, coaching and analysis.
In regards to the World Editors Discussion board:
The World Editors Forum is the main world community for editors of reports organizations inside WAN-IFRA. It’s constructed on a dedication to defend press freedom and promote editorial excellence. It was established greater than twenty years in the past and focuses on constructing the capability of newsrooms by way of coaching, modern practices, conferences and sharing of experiences.
About WAN-IFRA:
WAN-IFRA is the World Affiliation of Information Publishers. Its mission is to guard the rights of journalists and publishers around the globe to function impartial media. WAN-IFRA supplies its members with experience and providers to innovate and prosper in a digital world and carry out their essential position in society. With formal consultant standing on the United Nations, UNESCO and the Council of Europe, it derives its authority from its world community of main information publishing corporations and expertise entrepreneurs, and its legitimacy from its 80 nationwide affiliation members representing 18,000 publications in 120 international locations.
Associated Hyperlinks:
https://worldnewsday.org/
SOURCE Canadian Journalism Basis
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