Each month we will be choosing an urgent theme to explore in depth across all our regions
Originally published on Global Voices
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As the need for responsible, multi-perspective news coverage grows increasingly urgent, and the situation for media organizations and news providers is made increasingly difficult, Global Voices is responding by leaning into our strengths: our twenty years of building a worldwide community and centering the stories our contributors, translators, researchers, and fellows feel are important. Stellar examples of this include the Climate Justice Fellowship, where we paired independent Sinophone and other global majority country journalists to assess the role of China in mitigating the global climate crisis; collaborative articles like this one on flooding events around the world; and cross-border stories like this one tracing human trafficking across the borders of South Asia and China.
To fully leverage our amazing network and enable our readers to explore the full breadth of our cross-border, multilingual work, we are launching a new approach to our mission of amplifying the voices of those underrepresented in the digital sphere: Global Voices Spotlight.
In addition to our regular coverage, every month we will be choosing an urgent theme to explore in depth across all our regions. This range of perspectives will be grounded in our Global Voices values of human and digital rights — as always. It will also be complemented by collaborative articles, online panels, and analysis of key narratives using our Civic Media Observatory methodology. Cross-cutting essays will highlight the trends, exceptions, and insights that we gain from exploring the vital issues of today with contributors from across the globe, instead of the narrow reporting that focuses on the rich, famous, and available for comment.
With these special, thematic issues, we will bring our readers new understanding, raise the profile of important topics, and illuminate connections across regions, borders, and languages. We’re confident that, in every issue, you’ll find more than one angle that you hadn’t considered before.
We’re excited to start this process with a collection of articles on how the use of, promotion of, and resistance to AI is playing out for the Global Majority, from the way AI is weaponized in elections and conflicts, to the consequences for low-resource languages, to the impacts on human rights, and much more.
In May, we’ll be looking at climate solutions around the world, from technology to society, and with all the complications and nuance that you expect from Global Voices stories. We’ll be announcing more themes soon, and would love reader feedback on what you would like us to explore.
We’d also love to do more on each of these topics than we can afford to do with our current funding levels. On our donation page, you’ll find opportunities to support specific themes. Contribute to the issues on topics you care about, and help us add more articles, analysis, and multimedia initiatives, for more cross-cutting insights to help you understand the world.
