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TrustMedia Introducing
TrustMedia is the journalism training and media development arm of Thomson Reuters Foundation.
TRF has been providing training for journalists around the world since 1982, to date reaching more than 8,000 participants from around 170 countries.
TRF continues to introduce specialist workshops to help journalists develop their understanding of complex contexts and to give them additional skills and confidence in imparting information and insights to their readers and viewers.
Larger training projects with partners involve ‘Follow the money’, a series of financial journalism training workshops TRF is running across Africa on behalf of the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (NORAD), and Reporting corruption courses in the Balkans in partnership with the Mediacentar Sarajevo with funding from the EU.
Media development
TrustMedia responds to fresh issues and changing situations to implement media development projects in the regions where they are most needed. Projects have included setting up eletions news services in Iraq and Egypt and setting up a financial news service in Zimbabwe. All projects include elements of journalism training.
Aswat Masriya
In October 2011, TRF launched an independent Egyptian Elections news and information website, Aswat Masriya (www.aswatmasriya.com and www.en.aswatmasriya.com) with funding from the British Council, the FCO and American Embassy in Cairo.
The website aims to increase transparency in the Egyptian media and facilitate the flow of reliable information to Egyptians during the democratic process and beyond. As part of this programme, TRF is running seven elections reporting workshops for Egyptian reporters from around the country.
Aswat al-Iraq
In 2004 TRF set up Iraq’s first independent news agency, Aswat al-Iraq with funding from the Spanish government and UNDP, which continues to provide impartial and reliable information in Iraq today. Aswat al-Iraq (Voices of Iraq) draws on the news agency skills and experience of Reuters, and benefited from the mentoring and expertise of Reuters editors during its first four years. Since its inception in 2004, TRF with Aswat al-Iraq has succeeded in what many thought an impossible task: winning credibility as a genuinely independent news agency in Iraq.
Not only journalists gain from TrustMedia’s training. Media training for the staff of commercial organisations, NGOs, local government officials - and others who need to communicate effectively with journalists - is also provided by TRF in a number of courses each year. We understand that journalism is a two way process, and seek to help those who are required to reach out through the media
TRF have trained well over 2000 UN staff, as well as staff from the IFC, the World Bank, DFID, CARE, Disasters Emergency Committee, Landmine Action, Action Aid, Merlin, Action against Hunger and International Alert.
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Thomson Reuters Foundation
Thomson Reuters Foundation is the charitable arm of the world’s leading provider of news and information (Thomson Reuters) and we make it our business to give people all over the world the information and skills they need to promote the rule of law, save lives in disasters and improve standards of journalism.
We know what we are doing.
We use the skills, values and expertise across Thomson Reuters, a company with 53,000 global employees, including 1,200 in-house attorneys. Westlaw, the legal research service of Thomson Reuters, has a solid history in supporting pro bono causes, donating over $20 million in 2009.
We have access to 2,900 Reuters journalists in almost 200 bureaus around the world, who reach 1 billion people every day. Reuters has been in the news business for more than a century and a half, and has a history of technological innovation in a rapidly-changing multi-media environment.
We understand you.
We’ve worked with almost 500 Non Governmental Organisations (NGOs), through AlertNet, a hub for humanitarian issues.
We know what challenges NGOs are facing and we know how they operate.
We’ve trained more than 10,000 journalists and media workers around the world.
It’s who we are
Our initiatives stand for better governance, greater transparency, more effective humanitarian relief and a robust global press that can make a difference. They are the embodiment of the Thomson Reuters Trust Principles of independence, integrity and freedom from bias.
The services on our portal site, Trust.org, build on the humanitarian-information initiatives and journalism-training programmes of the Reuters Foundation, established in 1982. Following the acquisition of Reuters by Thomson Corp in 2008, the Foundation was expanded to embrace the broader scope of the company.
Thomson Reuters Foundation is not a grant-giving body and will not reply to unsolicited requests for funding.
