Global Press Institute
| Non-Governmental Organisation | |
| Industry | Journalism, Social Entrepreneurship Women |
| Founded | 2006, United States |
| Headquarters | San Francisco, United States |
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Key people
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Cristi Hegranes |
| Products | Training, employment, education. |
| Website | www.globalpressinstitute.org |
The Global Press Institute, formerly the Press Institute for Women in the Developing World, is a San Francisco-based 501(c)(3) nonprofit with international operations in 27 countries. GPI was founded on the premise that, with appropriate training, local women in developing countries can become quality journalists. It identifies the social, historical and political context that these women possess as a factor distinguishing them from traditional foreign correspondents.
The organization consists of three divisions: Global Press Institute, which focuses on training local women to become journalists in developing media markets; Global Press Journal, which oversees content production; and Global Press News Service, which sells content from Global Press Journal and other sources to media, education, and corporate syndication partners.
GPI was founded in 2006 by Cristi Hegranes, a young American journalist. A year earlier, Hegranes had been working as a foreign correspondent in Nepal when she traveled to a rural eastern village, where she met the village matriarch, Pratima C. While working with Pratima, Hegranes realized that despite her extensive Nepali network and Nepali language skills, she did not have the same insights as Pratima. Hegranes concluded that local women were better equipped to tell stories about their communities because they had more cultural context and greater access to reliable sources. She identified the lack of a formal journalism education and access to a credible global platform as the main hurdles preventing local women like Pratima from becoming quality journalists. With this in mind, she founded Global Press Institute.
In 2006 Hegranes performed the first GPI training in Chiapas, Mexico, where five women were trained in the principles and practice of traditional investigative journalism. The stories, which covered topics such as AIDS, poverty, clandestine abortion and community development, were the first that were published by the Global Press Journal. Hegranes established a second news desk in Nepal. As of 2016, the organization has trained and employed 150 journalists in 26 countries. In addition to print journalism, GPI training includes photo and video journalism.
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