By TrustMedia | Sat., June 4, 12:39 PM
Welcome to TrustMedia, the new home of the Thomson Reuters Foundation journalism, media and development programmes.
In fact it’s not just a new home, but a new name; ReutersLink has served our needs well over the past decade, but like many things in life progress waits for no one.
2011 is our thirtieth year of running journalism training projects, and so much has changed since then. From those early days, when it was decided that Reuters had something to offer that could really make a difference in the world, the Foundation has become a pioneer of promoting trusted information around the world. We are now running over 100 workshops a year, in seven languages, in everything from climate change reporting, business and financial news reporting, to workshops looking at good governance, TV journalism and health reporting.
Back then in 1982, nobody (with a social life at least) had even heard of the internet, let alone the associated paraphernalia – streaming, video content, live blogs etc. On this site we can do it all and more, and we will be blogging on all the new developments over the coming weeks. New functionality, easier navigation and a fresh image (inline with that of the rest of the Foundation) we hope will make the experience of the users and alumni smoother and more straightforward.
In these heady days of high-speed technology and ubiquitous connectivity it is important to remember why we are here; we consider, more than ever, that media consumers (the world’s newspaper readers and bulletin viewers) deserve trusted, unbiased and fair information to draw their own conclusions and opinions without undue influence. The advent of citizen journalism and social media has added untold new dimensions to this, meaning that we are always faced with new and interesting challenges and questions.
We hope this will be the place that you come to find the answers
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