{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"205 A mission is to transform global news coverage by recruiting, training and then employing women journalists world-wide.","description":"Cristi Hegranes is an award-winning journalist and founder of the Global Press Institute (GPI), a nonprofit organization that builds and maintains news bureaus in some of the world\u2019s least-covered locations, like: Cameroon, Haiti, Kashmir, Mongolia, Nepal, Zambia and more. The organization recruits local women in the areas and then implements a 16-week training-to-employment program in which they learn the principles and practice of investigative journalism. Upon completion, graduates are offered full-time, paid employment as reporters with GPI\u2019s Global Press Journal (GPJ), which aims to \u201cproduce ethical, accurate news, to create a more just and informed world, with team members who are guided by four core values: dignity, diversity, transparency and excellence.\u201d In September 2023, Hegranes released her new book: \u201cBYLINE: How Local Journalists Can Improve the Global News Industry and Change the World,\u201d which features original interviews with some of the biggest names in journalism, including Nicholas Kristof, Carroll Bogert, Bobby Ghosh, Lauren Williams, as well as Global Press reporters across the planet. In the book, Hegranes states that international coverage led by local journalists can restore trust in the entire news publishing industry. She explains, \u201cto enact this solution, the industry will have to let go of many outdated assumptions about what news people want, who has a right to tell their story.\u201d In this episode of \u201cE&P Reports,\u201d we go one-on-one with award-winning journalist and founder of the Global Press Institute (GPI) Cristi Hegranes, whose new book: \u201cByline\u201d makes a case that the global news publishing industry can become more sustainable by rethinking how it provides global news coverage by focusing on local news sourcing \u2014 as opposed to: \u201cThe flawed discipline of parachute journalism.\u201d Within the interview with E&P Publisher Mike Blinder, Hegranes cites recent GPI research  indicating, \u201cThere is a deep reservoir of untapped demand from readers in the United States \u2014 across a wide range of demographics, including noncitizen, diaspora, and migrant populations \u2014 for international journalism that is local, precise and representative.\u201d ","author_name":""E & P Reports" from Editor & Publisher Magazine hosted by Mike Blinder","author_url":"https:\/\/editorandpublisher.com\/","html":"