GlobalGirl Media Training Academy & News Bureaus

Los Angeles: Revving up to begin another year of training. Two girls began college this semester. One of our GlobalGirls in college spoke at this year's TedxWomen's Conference in San Diego. Additionally, the girls covered the Anti-Walmart protest on Black Friday.

South Africa: Secured an Open Society Institute Grant for an intensive editing course in Soweto. The World Bank hired GGM Team in South Africa to cover its latest Conference there on Open Contracting. Also, two reporter from GGM South Africa received one year fellowships to attend the Big Fish School of Digital Filmmaking.

Morocco:  Completed our second year of training, adding an additional 12 young women to our news bureau, where 24 GGM Reporters now cover six cities nationwide. GGM Morocco was selected by USAID to produce a documentary on education and drop-out rates in rural areas. 

Chicago: Launched our newest project with 15 new young women from South and Westside Chicago, securing significant new funders from McCormick Foundation and the Eileen Fisher Foundation. Launched a new Mentorship Program and created an Advisory Board with leading women in media, including Laura Washington, ABC-7 News Anchor and Columnist, Chicago Sun-Times, Elizabeth Taylor, Editor, Book Review, Chicago Tribune, and Michelle Weldon, Prof. Medill School of Journalism. GGM Chicago produced several blogs and four videos on the following topics: bullying, violence in Chicago, sustainability and Election 2012.

Links:

• YouTube Channel

RECENT ACHIEVEMENTS:

GlobalGirl Media currently maintains news bureaus in Soweto, South Africa; Rabat, Fes, Marrakech, Casablanca and Ouarzazate, Morroco; East and South Central Los Angeles; and Chicago. Some recent activities:

1. LA Bureau is producing “COMO AMAR,” How to Love, a 6-part webisode series on Reproductive Rights for Latino Public Broadcasting
2. GGM’s team of HIV-positive reporters from Soweto were granted full press credentials and traveled to Washington, D.C. for the July 2012 World AIDS Conference.
3. Moroccan GGM Team organized a mass protest in front of Parliament for Amina, a young woman forced to marry her rapist, and their organization, Woman Choufouch was featured in the NY Times.
4. GGM Reporters Rocio from LA and Tebogo from South Africa participated in the International Women's Media Foundation Leaders Conference in Washington D.C. Rocio was later selected as the UN’s GIRL UP! Teen Advisor for 2012.
5. First Lady Michelle Obama met with one of the GlobalGirls in South Africa, and wrote about her on the White House blog as an example of how supporting young womens' education can transform a community.
6. 6.     Ambassador Melanne Verveer, head of the Global Women's Issues Office in the State Department recently met our reporters at the International Women's Media Leadership Conference in D.C. and was so excited she blogged about us, and we are featured on their webpage:  http://www.state.gov/s/gwi/
7. 7.     In 2011, SA and LA Reporters covered the Sundance Film Festival, interviewing Danny Glover, Robert Redford, Gloria Steinem and Geena Davis, among others.

Links:

• A redesigned website was launched in July 2012, providing improv
• NBC News story on HIV+ GlobalGirls and AIDS 2012
• NBC News Story on Chicago GlobalGirl Training