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• Seven highlights from Trust Conference 2021

  Trust Conference – the Thomson Reuters Foundation’s flagship annual event – convened world-leading human rights defenders, innovators, media experts, business leaders and policymakers to address some of today’s most critical societal challenges and to discuss a post-pandemic recovery with inclusive growth, climate justice, media freedom and protection of digital rights.

  26 November 2021

• Maria Ressa, Jeffrey Sachs and Craig Newmark amongst speakers to address Trust Conference 2021

  Nobel Peace Prize winner Maria Ressa, and an Afghan reporter who fled the Taliban, Zahra Joya, will speak alongside a distinguished line-up of speakers that includes world-renowned Professor of Economics Jeffrey Sachs and founder of craigslist, philanthropist Craig Newmark at the Thomson Reuters Foundation’s flagship annual forum Trust Conference on 17 and 18 November.

  15 November 2021

• Winners of 2021 Kurt Schork Awards in International Journalism announced

  Named in honour of the late American war correspondent Kurt Schork, the Awards uniquely honour the courageous work of freelance journalists, local reporters and news fixers from around the world.

  13 October 2021

• Solutions Journalism: What reporters can do to beat ‘negative news fatigue’

  Kavita Chandran, a Consultant and Journalism Trainer at TRF, discusses how a solutions-based approach to journalism - which focuses on responses to social issues and is now part of several training programmes that we provide to journalists around the world - offers an array of benefits to both readers and reporters.

  24 September 2021