Impact Journalism Day - The Story of Change: 25 June 2016

More than 50 media outlets around the world will take part in an international inititative on the weekend of 25-26 June 2016 reporting on how social, environmental, and healthcare activities are attempting to solve challenges and improve the lives of people around the world.

Impact Journalism Day – The Story of Change – organized by the Paris-based social enterprise, SparkNews, will involve newspapers across the world – such as Le Figaro (France), The Irish Times (Ireland), Politiken (Denmark), Die Welt (Germany), El Heraldo (Honduras), The Moscow Times (Russia), Asahi Shimbun (Japan), The Sydney Morning Herald (Australia), The Times of India (India), The News (Pakistan), Respekt (Czech Republic), La Presse (Tunisia), The Huffington Post (United States of America), China Daily (China), La Nacion (Argentina), Daily Monitor (Uganda), Azernews (Azerbaijan), the Strait Times (Singapore) – and more.

Impact Journalism Day (IJD) started four years ago and has become an annual event. It’s goal was to identify, share, and amplify positive solutions to the important problems of our time by working with ‘the world’s most important daily newspapers.’

This year some of the reportage will focus on refugees, pollution, early marriages, a peer-to-peer travel club for older people, and mental health. The newspapers globally will present 100 initiatives that are changing the world.

www.impactjournalismday.com

https://www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland/irish-news/irish-times-to-take-part-in-global-solutions-journalism-initiative-1.2695327

MARTINA NICOLLS is the author of:- The Shortness of Life: A Mongolian Lament (2015), Liberia’s Deadest Ends (2012), Bardot’s Comet (2011), Kashmir on a Knife-Edge (2010) and The Sudan Curse (2009).

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