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Internews supports the truth and those who report it. In an era of diminished trust in media, evaporation of local news outlets, and growing hostility to a free press, urgent action is needed to ensure high-quality news and information reflects and reaches the communities it is meant to serve.
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Situation
• Only 1 in 7 people live in a country with a free press. • Despite 24-hour news and social media, many people remain cut off from information. Some regimes deliberately suppress the truth. Elsewhere, rumour and panic fill a vacuum left by war and humanitarian crisis. • Disinformation spreads 20 times faster than truth on social media. • The collapse of the news industry is creating news deserts. • As reliable news outlets are collapsing, the truth has become an endangered species.
Solution
• Internews empowers communities with reliable news and information in their own languages. • We support truth-tellers – reporters, citizen journalists, activists – with training, mentorship, material support and business skills. • We strengthen hyper-local media and information and ensure it reaches and reflects vulnerable, marginalized and excluded groups. • We nurture the kind of local media essential for connecting communities in debates that affect their health, security, and livelihoods.