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Antonio Zappulla, CEO of the Thomson Reuters Foundation, joins Edelman's Justin Blake to explore the urgent challenges facing independent journalism in today's volatile information landscape. From the rise of autocracies to the flood of online misinformation and the rapid evolution of AI, Antonio discusses how media organizations can uphold integrity, adapt to disruption, and cut … Continue reading "Thomson Reuters Foundation's Antonio Zappulla on Threats Facing Journalists"

In this episode of Fellowship Takeaways we hear from two journalists whose work and lives has been shaped by displacement. In this episode of Fellowship Takeaways we hear from two journalists whose work and lives has been shaped by displacement. They discuss the challenges of building trust, maintaining sources' anonymity, the emotional toll of their work and what newsrooms can do better to support journalists in exile. Speakers: Asmaa Al-Omar is a Syrian journalist who has reported on human rights violations, migration, and conflict in the Middle East for publications such as The New York Times, The Financial Times, and The Guardian. Her investigative work focuses on refugee issues and regional corruption. Maria Kiseleva is a journalist and video producer from Russia, who relocated to Riga, Latvia, after the invasion of Ukraine to escape military censorship laws. Before the invasion, Maria was working for the BBC's Russian Service in Moscow. She currently works for Current Time TV station, part of RFE/RL. Our host Caithlin Mercer is the Associate Director of the Journalist Fellowship Programme at the Reuters Institute. Previously she was Managing Editor at Yahoo UK where spearheaded their move into audio. Resources: Transcript of the podcast: https://reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/news/our-podcast-challenges-covering-russia-and-syria-exile Thomson Reuters Foundation report on Strengthening Exiled Media https://www.trust.org/initiative/supporting-media-in-exile/ Thomson Reuters Foundation report on Supporting Media in Exile https://www.trust.org/initiative/supporting-media-in-exile/

Antonio Zappulla is CEO at the Thomson Reuters Foundation and in 2022 he was knighted as an Officer of the Italian Republic for “merit acquired in the fields of public service, and social, philanthropic and humanitarian activities” under the OMRI order, the highest-ranking honour of the Italian Republic.We talk with him about LGBTQ rights in the digital age and how to protect NGOs from legal challenges at RightsCon 2025 in Taipei.

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As the climate crisis intensifies, billions of poor and working people around the world are suffering from lack of regular (or any) access to clean water, but the dawn of “AI” is about to make the problem much worse. In their recent report for Context, “Forget jobs—AI is coming for your water,” Diana Baptista and Fintan McDonnell write, “Artificial intelligence lives on power and water, fed to it in vast quantities by data centres around the world. And those centres are increasingly located in the global south.” In Colón, a municipality in Central Mexico that is home to Microsoft's first hyperscale data center campus in the country, working people are already bearing the environmental costs of man-made climate change, and they will be the ones to bear the costs of AI and Big Tech. “The town of 67,000 is suffering extreme drought. Its two dams have nearly dried up, farmers are struggling with dead crops, and families are relying on trucked and bottled water to fulfill their daily needs.” In the latest installment of our ongoing series, Sacrificed, Max speaks with Diana Baptista, a data journalist at the Thomson Reuters Foundation based in Mexico City, about Mexico's ongoing water crisis and about the human and environmental costs of AI and cloud computing. Additional links/info below… Diana's Context author page and X page Fintan McDonnell & Diana Baptista, Context, “Forget jobs. AI is coming for your water (Video Report)” Fintan McDonnell & Diana Baptista, Context, “Thirsty data centres spring up in water-poor Mexican town (Text Report)” David Berreby, Yale Environment 360, “As use of A.I. soars, so does the energy and water it requires” Tamara Pearson, The Real News Network, “Indigenous Mexicans risk their lives to defend the environment from organized crime and ‘insatiable, predatory' transnational corporations” Maximillian Alvarez, Working People / The Real News Network, “In Brazil, the climate crisis is already turning working people into climate refugees” Maximillian Alvarez, Working People / The Real News Network, “East Palestine residents have been left behind—and they're running out of water” Permanent links below… Leave us a voicemail and we might play it on the show! Labor Radio / Podcast Network website, Facebook page, and Twitter page In These Times website, Facebook page, and Twitter page The Real News Network website, YouTube channel, podcast feeds, Facebook page, and Twitter page Featured Music… Jules Taylor, “Working People” Theme Song Studio Production: Max Alvarez Post-Production: Jules Taylor

As the climate crisis intensifies, billions of poor and working people around the world are suffering from lack of regular (or any) access to clean water, but the dawn of “AI” is about to make the problem much worse. In their recent report for Context, “Forget jobs—AI is coming for your water,” Diana Baptista and Fintan McDonnell write, “Artificial intelligence lives on power and water, fed to it in vast quantities by data centres around the world. And those centres are increasingly located in the global south.” In Colón, a municipality in Central Mexico that is home to Microsoft's first hyperscale data center campus in the country, working people are already bearing the environmental costs of man-made climate change, and they will be the ones to bear the costs of AI and Big Tech. “The town of 67,000 is suffering extreme drought. Its two dams have nearly dried up, farmers are struggling with dead crops, and families are relying on trucked and bottled water to fulfill their daily needs.” In the latest installment of our ongoing series, Sacrificed, Max speaks with Diana Baptista, a data journalist at the Thomson Reuters Foundation based in Mexico City, about Mexico's ongoing water crisis and about the human and environmental costs of AI and cloud computing.Additional links/info below…Diana's Context author page and X pageFintan McDonnell & Diana Baptista, Context, “Forget jobs. AI is coming for your water (Video Report)”Fintan McDonnell & Diana Baptista, Context, “Thirsty data centres spring up in water-poor Mexican town (Text Report)”David Berreby, Yale Environment 360, “As use of A.I. soars, so does the energy and water it requires”Tamara Pearson, The Real News Network, “Indigenous Mexicans risk their lives to defend the environment from organized crime and ‘insatiable, predatory' transnational corporations”Maximillian Alvarez, Working People / The Real News Network, “In Brazil, the climate crisis is already turning working people into climate refugees”Maximillian Alvarez, Working People / The Real News Network, “East Palestine residents have been left behind—and they're running out of water”Permanent links below…Leave us a voicemail and we might play it on the show!Labor Radio / Podcast Network website, Facebook page, and Twitter pageIn These Times website, Facebook page, and Twitter pageThe Real News Network website, YouTubechannel, podcast feeds, Facebook page, and Twitter pageFeatured Music…Jules Taylor, “Working People” Theme SongStudio Production: Max AlvarezHelp us continue producing radically independent news and in-depth analysis by following us and becoming a monthly sustainer.Sign up for our newsletterLike us on FacebookFollow us on TwitterDonate to support this podcast

Imagine sobriety coming from having more sex? Sounds crazy, right? But there are multiple pathways to becoming sober and staying sober. In his new book, Recovery From Recovery: One gay man's journey toward sexual and emotional freedom during and after sobriety, Adam Fitzgerald shares how his journey into sobriety led him to a sexual freedom he had never experienced. About Adam Adam Fitzgerald is a writer, director, filmmaker, and content creator whose work has been recognized with an Emmy Nomination, "Critic's Picks" from The New York Times, The Chicago Tribune, TimeOut Chicago and TimeOut New York, "Best of the Year" nods in The Advocate Magazine and The Contra Costa Times, a Jeff Award Nomination, and San Francisco Bay Area Critics Award nominations. His writing has been published by the Huffington Post and Thomson Reuters Foundation & Openly and his short film, Occupy Me (director/writer) has been viewed more than one million times on YouTube. Adam directed RESISTANCE RADIO for Man in the High Castle (Amazon Studios) which was nominated for a Creative Arts Emmy Award and received two Silver and three Bronze Lions at the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity, and the short film Dividends, which won "Best Director" at the New York Film Awards. Connect With Adam Website Facebook Instagram X - Twitter Hey Guys, Check This Out! Are you a guy who keeps struggling to do that thing? You know the thing you keep telling yourself and others you're going to do, but never do? Then it's time to get real and figure out why. Join the 40 Plus: Gay Men Gay Talk, monthly chats. They happen the third Monday of each month at 5:00 pm Pacific - Learn More! Break free of fears. Make bold moves. Live life without apologies

S4E05: Community Service New approaches to journalism are required to engage with audiences, restore trust, and connect with communities turned off by the traditional news agenda. In this episode, we explore the view of a US-based journalist and academic who is the co-author of a report calling for the establishment of more community-centered journalism as a way of turning the tide against news avoidance. Damian Radcliffe was one of the authors of the report, “Redefining News: A Manifesto for Community-Centered Journalism,” which calls for a radical new approach to story creation and agenda setting. It calls for far greater involvement with communities to understand their needs and tell their stories in ways that re-establish the value which journalism can bring. Our Guest This Episode Damian Radcliffe   Journalist, researcher, and professor based at the University of Oregon with over 25 years of experience in the media industry, Damian has worked in editorial, strategic, research, policy, and teaching roles in the USA, Middle East, and UK.   His work focuses on digital trends, social media, technology, the business of media, and the evolution—and practice—of journalism.    As an analyst, researcher, and trainer, he has worked with a wide range of additional industry and academic organizations including the BBC World Service, Facebook, FIPP, INMA, Thomson Reuters Foundation, World Association of News Publishers (WAN-IFRA), and the United Nations. He has been quoted on issues relating to digital media and journalism by major outlets such as AFP, BBC News, Business Insider, NPR, The New York Times, Snapchat, Wired, and Voice of America.    As a freelance journalist, his work has also been published by leading publications and trade outlets such as the BBC, Columbia Journalism Review (CJR), Global Investigative Journalism Network (GIJN), Harvard's Nieman Lab, HuffPost, PBS MediaShift, Poynter, TheMediaBriefing, and ZDNet.    More Resources For more on this topic, check out A Manifesto for Community-Centred Journalism  – Read the paper MediaCentral virtual event  – Watch the webinar to find out more about news collaboration Contact Us Questions? Comments? Cool ideas? Get in touch: makingthemedia@avid.com or @craigaw1969. Follow Avid at @avid.

Avi Asher-Schapiro, tech reporter with the Thomson Reuters Foundation, takes us through some of the reasons fake news or misleading content about the fight between Israel and Hamas is being amplified on social media feeds. For transcripts of Front Burner, please visit: https://www.cbc.ca/radio/frontburner/transcripts Transcripts of each episode will be made available by the next workday.

This week, Bloomberg reported that social media posts about the Israel-Hamas conflict have led to a sticky cesspool of confusion and conflict on Elon Musk's X, formerly known as Twitter. On Saturday, just hours after Hamas fighters from Gaza surged into Israel, unverified photos and videos of missile air strikes, buildings and homes being destroyed and other posts depicting military violence — in Israel and Gaza — crowded the platform. But some of the horror, not all of course, were old images passed off as new. Some of this content was posted by anonymous accounts that carried blue checkmarks, which signals that they had purchased verification under X's “premium” subscription service. Some military footage circulating on X were drawn from video games, and some of the lies were, as usual, pushed by far-right pundits on the platform, for clicks or, possibly, ulterior motives. For the midweek podcast, Brooke speaks with Avi Asher-Schapiro, who covers tech for the Thomson Reuters Foundation, about how Musk's policy changes at X have led to a stronger initial surge of misinformation than usual during this conflict, and how an algorithmically-driven "fog of war" impacts our historical record of this conflict.     

This week, Bloomberg reported that social media posts about the Israel-Hamas conflict have led to a sticky cesspool of confusion and conflict on Elon Musk's X, formerly known as Twitter. On Saturday, just hours after Hamas fighters from Gaza surged into Israel, unverified photos and videos of missile air strikes, buildings and homes being destroyed and other posts depicting military violence — in Israel and Gaza — crowded the platform. But some of the horror, not all of course, were old images passed off as new. Some of this content was posted by anonymous accounts that carried blue checkmarks, which signals that they had purchased verification under X's “premium” subscription service. Some military footage circulating on X were drawn from video games, and some of the lies were, as usual, pushed by far-right pundits on the platform, for clicks or, possibly, ulterior motives. For the midweek podcast, Brooke speaks with Avi Asher-Schapiro, who covers tech for the Thomson Reuters Foundation, about how Musk's policy changes at X have led to a stronger initial surge of misinformation than usual during this conflict, and how an algorithmically-driven "fog of war" impacts our historical record of this conflict.     

For our fourth episode in the series, The Chief of Staff Association's Euan Godbold is joined by Marc Ristol, Chief of Staff at the Thomson Reuters Foundation. The charitable arm of the Thompson Reuters news agency, Marc guides the leadership team as they work to advance media freedom, foster more inclusive economies, and promote human rights around the world.Host: Euan GodboldGuest: Marc Ristol, Chief of Staff at The Thomson Reuters FoundationLearn more about the TRF here: https://www.trust.org/Sign up for their Trust Conference in London here: https://event.trustconference.Applications to join our latest cohort of members are now open. Membership provides you access to our world-leading Chief of Staff Core Competency Programme, career-defining mentorship and the opportunity to join our Executive Education programmes at the University of Oxford and Harvard Business School. To learn more, go to www.csa.org

For decades journalists have examined the global ramifications of climate change on the international stage. But as local communities become more impacted by extreme weather, journalists need to deliver reporting on climate justice through a local and solutions lens. In this episode, we spoke with Alex Harris from The Miami Herald and Tahmid Zami from Thomson Reuters Foundation. The pair draw on their reporting and data skills sharing their experiences of covering climate change from the United States to Bangladesh.

ARI RATH-PREIS FÜR KRITISCHEN JOURNALISMUS 2023 EXIL-FLUCHT-VERTREIBUNG Begrüßung und Begründung der Jury: Gertraud Auer Borea d'Olmo, Generalsekretärin des Kreisky Forums Preisträgerin: Noa Landau, Stellvertretende Chefredakteurin Ha'aretzLaudatorin: Alexandra Föderl-Schmid, Stellvertretende Chefredakteurin der Süddeutschen Zeitung Preisträgerin: Christa Zöchling, Journalistin und AutorinLaudator: Fritz Hausjell, Reporter ohne Grenzen Der „Ari-Rath-Preis für kritischen Journalismus“ wurde auf der Basis einer Privatinitiative eingerichtet, um im Sinne des im Jänner 2017 verstorbenen renommierten ehemaligen Chefredakteurs der Jerusalem Post Journalistinnen und Journalisten auszuzeichnen, die sich in ihrer Arbeit um eine kritische und der Wahrung der Menschenrechte verpflichtete Berichterstattung über Flucht, Vertreibung und Asyl in hervorragender Weise verdient gemacht haben. Eine Jury von Expertinnen und Experten unter dem Vorsitz von Gertraud Auer Borea d'Olmo, der Generalsekretärin des Bruno Kreisky Forums für internationalen Dialog und enge Vertraute von Ari Rath, hat einstimmig Noa Landau und Christa Zöchling für den „Ari Rath Preis für kritischen Journalismus“ 2023 vorgeschlagen.   Mit freundlicher Unterstützung von Wien Energie Noa Landau ist stellvertretende Chefredakteurin von Haaretz, der ältesten führenden Tageszeitung des Landes, und Mitglied des Redaktionsausschusses der Zeitung. Zuvor war sie Leiterin des Nachrichtenressorts der Zeitung und Redakteurin der englischen Ausgabe von Haaretz. Bevor sie 2009 zu Haaretz kam, arbeitete Landau als Nachrichtenreporterin und Redakteurin für verschiedene israelische Nachrichtensender, darunter Galei-Tzahal, Channel 10 und Maariv, und war Gründungsmitglied des ersten Journalistinnenforums des Landes.Sie war 2016 Journalist Fellow am Reuters Institute, das von der Thomson Reuters Foundation gesponsert wird, und untersuchte dort den Anstieg von Nachrichtensperren in Israel. Christa Zöchling ist eine österreichische Journalistin und Publizistin. Von 1992 bis 2023 war sie für das Nachrichtenmagazin profil tätig. Zöchling studierte Geschichte und Germanistik in Graz und Wien. Sie gab Deutschkurse für Ausländer an der Universität Wien und arbeitete an Projekten zur Zeitgeschichte mit. Im Jahre 1989 kam sie als Volontärin zur Arbeiterzeitung (AZ,) kurz nachdem diese von der SPÖ verkauft und von Hans Schmid übernommen worden war. Nach Einstellung der AZ Ende Oktober 1991 arbeitete Zöchling kurz für den Kurier und wurde schließlich 1992 als innenpolitische Redakteurin von profil verpflichtet. Zöchling beschreibt schwerpunktmäßig die österreichische Innenpolitik und befasst sich immer wieder mit dem Thema Rechtspopulismus. Sie hat in Buchform zwei Standardwerke zu Jörg Haider vorgelegt und schreibt fallweise auch für Sammelbände und andere Publikationen, wie Emma. Nachdem Zöchling in der Profil-Ausgabe vom 7. September 2015 FPÖ-Sympathisanten als „die hässlichsten Menschen Wiens, ungestalte unförmige Leiber, strohige, stumpfe Haare, ohne Schnitt, ungepflegt, Glitzer-T-Shirts, die spannen, Trainingshosen, Leggins. Pickelhaut. Schlechte Zähne, ausgeleierte Schuhe“ beschrieben hatte, wurde profil.at vom österreichischen Presserat gerügt, da es sich um einen Verstoß gegen Punkt 7 des Ehrenkodex für die österreichische Presse (Schutz vor Pauschalverunglimpfung und Diskriminierung) handle. Zöchling hält regelmäßig Vorträge, etwa im Fachbereich Gender Studies an der Universität Innsbruck.

For the first time in our history, a former U.S. president has been indicted. On this week's On the Media, what Israel can teach us about when a nation's leader runs afoul of the law. Plus, social media companies are back in the hot seat, facing serious legal threats at the local and national levels. 1. Yael Freidson [@YaelFreidson], legal correspondent for the Israeli newspaper Haaretz, on why the crisis in Israel reached a boiling point after Prime Minister Netanyahu's attempts to cut down systems of accountability. Listen. 2. Julia Bacha [@juliabacha], the director of the documentary film ‘Boycott' and the creative director at Just Vision, a nonprofit media organization that creates content about Israel and Palestine, on how Israel's Ministry of Strategic Affairs was created to combat the boycott movement—first within borders, then overseas. Listen. 3. Avi Asher-Schapiro [@AASchapiro], tech reporter at the Thomson Reuters Foundation, on the surge of bills across the United States aiming to reduce the impact of social media on the mental health of children and teens. Listen. 4. Jacqueline Nesi [@JacquelineNesi], assistant professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior at Brown University, on the murkiness of the data on teen mental health and social media, and the possible consequences of restricting screen time. Listen.   Music:We Insist - Zoe KeatingThe Glass House - Going to TehranHow Strange - Nicole Cruz RemixOtotoa - Malphino Equinox - John Coltrane

For the first time in our history, a former U.S. president has been indicted. On this week's On the Media, what Israel can teach us about when a nation's leader runs afoul of the law. Plus, social media companies are back in the hot seat, facing serious legal threats at the local and national levels. 1. Yael Freidson [@YaelFreidson], legal correspondent for the Israeli newspaper Haaretz, on why the crisis in Israel reached a boiling point after Prime Minister Netanyahu's attempts to cut down systems of accountability. Listen. 2. Julia Bacha [@juliabacha], the director of the documentary film ‘Boycott' and the creative director at Just Vision, a nonprofit media organization that creates content about Israel and Palestine, on how Israel's Ministry of Strategic Affairs was created to combat the boycott movement—first within borders, then overseas. Listen. 3. Avi Asher-Schapiro [@AASchapiro], tech reporter at the Thomson Reuters Foundation, on the surge of bills across the United States aiming to reduce the impact of social media on the mental health of children and teens. Listen. 4. Jacqueline Nesi [@JacquelineNesi], assistant professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior at Brown University, on the murkiness of the data on teen mental health and social media, and the possible consequences of restricting screen time. Listen.   Music:We Insist - Zoe KeatingThe Glass House - Going to TehranHow Strange - Nicole Cruz RemixOtotoa - Malphino Equinox - John Coltrane

Rob Percival is a writer, campaigner and food policy expert with The Soil Association. His commentary on food and farming has featured in the national press and on prime time television, and his writing has been shortlisted for the Guardian's International Development Journalism Prize and the Thomson Reuters Foundation's Food Sustainability Media Award. He works as Head of Food Policy for the Soil Association.The Meat Paradox is his first book, and goodness, it's been a world changer - since its hardback publication, Rob's become a global superstar: invited to speak to groups across the spectrum of industry and culture about the nature of our relationship with the food that we eat. We left our first conversation each feeling that we'd just begun to scrape the surface of possibility and it would be good to talk again. We had scheduled another podcast for later this year, but I saw that the book had just come out in paperback and that coincided with our having a total technological crash in this week's interview. So Rob really kindly agreed to fill in at super short notice so that we could talk more about life and death and food and the nature of the meta-crisis. There's so much to this that really cuts to the core of who we are and where we're heading as a species, and we ended - again, feeling that there was more to say. But in the meantime, we explored the nature of the food system, the concept of precision fermentation, what makes 'whole' foods and how we might feed the world without industrial agriculture.  Rob gave his one big suggestion for moving things forward - stop eating chicken. At the end, we opened another huge topic and began to explore the nature of death, and who our fear of the unknown leads us to denial of the meta-crisis and, in the end, denial of death itself. So we'll be back when Rob's next book comes out, but in the meantime, here are more thoughts on the social, political, practical and moral aspects of how we take in the building blocks of life. Radio 4 Book of the Week https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001hf27Rob's website https://rob-percival.com/about/The Meat Paradox in paperback https://uk.bookshop.org/books/the-meat-paradox-brilliantly-provocative-original-electrifying-bee-wilson-financial-times/9780349144573Rob on Twitter https://twitter.com/Rob_Percival_Previous Episode https://accidentalgods.life/the-meat-paradox/Green Alliance https://green-alliance.org.uk/GA Report  https://green-alliance.org.uk/publication/shaping-uk-land-use-priorities-for-food-nature-and-climate/Bionutrient Food Association https://www.bionutrient.org/

Since taking over as editor in 2018, Hugo has driven Openly's mission to become the world's most trusted destination for impartial LGBT+ news. Reaching Reuters' one billion clients daily, the platform aims to uncover breaking stories and investigates the queer narratives inside major global events, typically untold by mainstream media, made possible through shifting from spot news to social media reporting.Hugo is also the author of ‘The Diaries of Mr Lucas', and explores how he uncovered this fascinating account of queer life in London before the partial decriminalisation of gay sex in 1967, and what led to Mr Lucas giving him his indiscreet journals for publication—revealing an affair with a member of the Kray twins gang.

Avi Asher-Schapiro is a journalist covering digital rights and technology for the Thomson Reuters Foundation. For the final Tech Policy Press podcast of 2022, Justin Hendrix spoke to Asher-Schapiro about some of the most significant stories he and his colleagues covered in 2022, as well as what may make headlines in 2023 at the intersection of technology and society, delving into topics ranging from surveillance and crypto to social media and tech policy.

In this episode, we speak with Fabio Teixeira, Brazilian correspondent for the Thomson Reuters Foundation who have just launched a new podcast called Just Transition. Fabio has a strong background in investigative journalism and has some great insights into how he delves deep to find stories that stick in our minds. we discuss the unwritten rules of journalism and how non-profits can best work with journalists to expose issues or highlight their work.

Today on the podcast we explore her background into Journalism, how she started out and her peculiar but interesting choice in Japanese literature, which lead her to study it at Cambridge. From growing up on a farm, this line of progression or trajectory wasn't exactly the standard. Megan and I discuss her time in Japan, what she learnt from the people, culture, way of life and of course how the literature connected to her. We discuss coming up through the ranks and finding her way to journalism through reporting on world events and humanitarian work. Megan is a climate correspondent and editor for (TRF), based in Barcelona as mentioned but with an international beat. She runs a small team of reporters covering the ins and outs of securing a green and just transition to a decarbonised world, especially in developing countries. She has worked on topics ranging from finance to humanitarian news throughout her career as a journalist, with stints at Reuters and the BBC. 

Since Elon Musk took over Twitter, there has been nothing short of crisis — leading to massive layoffs and lost advertisers. On this week's On the Media, what this chaos means for activists worldwide who used the platform as a public square. Plus, how political predictions distort coverage of elections.  1. James Fallows [@JamesFallows], writer of the “Breaking the News” newsletter on Substack, on the political press' obsession with telling the future and the narratives that have a chokehold on elections coverage. Listen. 2. Zoë Schiffer [@ZoeSchiffer], Managing Editor of Platformer, on the mass exodus of employees from one of the world's most significant social media sites. Listen. 3. Avi Asher-Schapiro [@AASchapiro], tech reporter for the Thomson Reuters Foundation, on the impact of Musk's leadership on Twitter users around the world. Listen. 4. Clive Thompson [@pomeranian99], journalist and author of Coders: The Making of a New Tribe and the Remaking of the World, on the website many are fleeing to amid chaos at Twitter. Listen. On the Media is supported by listeners like you. Support OTM by donating today (https://pledge.wnyc.org/support/otm). Follow our show on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook @onthemedia, and share your thoughts with us by emailing onthemedia@wnyc.org.

Since Elon Musk took over Twitter, there has been nothing short of crisis — leading to massive layoffs and lost advertisers. On this week's On the Media, what this chaos means for activists worldwide who used the platform as a public square. Plus, how political predictions distort coverage of elections.  1. James Fallows [@JamesFallows], writer of the “Breaking the News” newsletter on Substack, on the political press' obsession with telling the future and the narratives that have a chokehold on elections coverage. Listen. 2. Zoë Schiffer [@ZoeSchiffer], Managing Editor of Platformer, on the mass exodus of employees from one of the world's most significant social media sites. Listen. 3. Avi Asher-Schapiro [@AASchapiro], tech reporter for the Thomson Reuters Foundation, on the impact of Musk's leadership on Twitter users around the world. Listen. 4. Clive Thompson [@pomeranian99], journalist and author of Coders: The Making of a New Tribe and the Remaking of the World, on the website many are fleeing to amid chaos at Twitter. Listen.

For hundreds of thousands of years, we lived as forager-hunters, our lives intimately entwined with the lives - and then deaths - of the animals that we ate.  And then we cut that link and now we eat meat in plastic packages with cute pictures on the front to remove our awareness of the death that has arisen. And yet at our deepest levels, we know that meat is murder.  How do we resolve this paradox?Rob Percival is a writer, campaigner and food policy expert. His commentary on food and farming has featured in the national press and on prime time television, and his writing has been shortlisted for the Guardian's International Development Journalism Prize and the Thomson Reuters Foundation's Food Sustainability Media Award. He works as Head of Food Policy for the Soil Association. The Meat Paradox is his first book and it's one of the best, deepest, and most genuinely engaging that I've read of the many that seek to address the huge cultural divide that surrounds our consumption of meat.   This is a book that delves into neuroscience (denial, cognitive dissonance and the lies we tell ourselves), indigenous spiritual/shamanic practice, ancient ancestral practice as depicted in cave paintings that were created over a span of 30,000 years (that's a long time for an art form) and the actual experience of what it is to stand in an abbatoir and make eye contact with a cow as she walks into the stun cage. Reading this book will change your life.  Talking to Rob on the podcast was a joy and an inspiration and we ranged across all of these subjects and more.  We didn't get to the last-line dedication to Odin, which I had thought would be the core of the podcast, but then I discovered in the pre-recording conversations that Odin is a rescue dog (which is wonderful, but not quite the backbone of a shamanic/spiritual podcast that I'd imagined). Nonetheless, this is a deeply felt, deeply touching podcast that delves deep into the very meat of our identities in the modern world. The Meat Paradox: https://uk.bookshop.org/books/the-meat-paradox-brilliantly-provocative-original-electrifying-bee-wilson-financial-times/9781408713815Web: rob-percival.com https://rob-percival.com/Twitter: @rob_percival_ https://twitter.com/Rob_Percival_IPES report: The Politics of Protein: http://ipes-food.org/pages/politicsofproteinSustainable Food Trust Report: 'Feeding Britain': https://sustainablefoodtrust.org/our-work/feeding-britain/LRB: A Million Shades of Red by Adam Mars-Jones: https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v44/n17/adam-mars-jones/a-million-shades-of-red

In this episode, we'll be speaking with Emily Payne. Emily is a writer covering the intersection of food, agriculture, climate, and health. She focuses on regenerative food systems and profiles farmers in transition to more sustainable practices. She's served as editor of the global sustainable food nonprofit Food Tank since 2015 and worked with a series of ag-tech startup companies, focusing on how to build technologies that better meet farmers' needs. Her work has appeared in Food Tank, Edible Communities, The Counter, AgFunder News, AG DAILY, Mad Agriculture, Thomson Reuters Foundation, the New York City Food Policy Center, and more. She is based in Denver, Colorado.Emily contributed to the fifth in a series of pieces produced by Edible Communities for publication in Edible magazines across the US and Canada and at ediblecommunities.com. The piece is titled, “Is Plastic Waste the Cost of Eating,” and it was written in collaboration with Food Tank's founder, Danielle Nierenberg. The piece takes a dive into the piles of what we as consumers do and don't know about the materials—often single use materials—that wrap and contain almost all the food we eat. We'll take a look—from the perspective of packaging—at where the buck stops when it comes to the challenges of being a human who eats on a planet in environmental crisis.

In recent months, press reports have emerged about individuals in multiple countries falling victim to extortion and fraud schemes enabled by often highly rated lending apps downloaded from Google's Play Store. Last week, Diana Baptista and Avi Asher-Schapiro, journalists at the Thomson Reuters Foundation, https://news.trust.org/item/20220810164211-uomxq/ (told the story) of how a man fell prey to one of these apps operating in Mexico. In this podcast episode, Baptista describes the man's experience, the broader phenomenon and the surrounding context.

Yasir Khan has covered wars, revolutions, and has chased camels through the Australian Outback. As a journalist and documentary filmmaker, he has worked for outlets including CBC, CNN, Al Jazeera and Euronews, and is currently editor-in-chief of Thomson Reuters Foundation. He talks about lessons from his career, including how he avoided becoming the "Muslim correspondent," and how empathy may have literally saved his life. If you enjoyed this episode and want to learn more, go to agakhanmuseum.org/thisbeinghuman Further resources: Watch Yasir Khan’s documentary “Camels in the Outback”: https://www.aljazeera.com/program/al-jazeera-world/2014/12/26/camels-in-the-outbackSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Hosted by Andrew Keen, Keen On features conversations with some of the world's leading thinkers and writers about the economic, political, and technological issues being discussed in the news, right now. In this episode, Andrew is joined by Sally Hayden, the author of My Fourth Time, We Drowned: Seeking Refuge on the World's Deadliest Migration Route. Sally Hayden is an Irish journalist based between the UK and Uganda, focused on migration, conflict, and humanitarian crises. She is currently the Africa correspondent for the Irish Times. Sally's work on Libya has been featured by the New York Times, the Guardian, Channel 4 News, CNN International, Al Jazeera, TIME, BBC, Die ZEIT, Der Spiegel, the Sunday Times, the Telegraph, ITV News, and other outlets across the world. She has reported on other international stories for the Washington Post, the Financial Times Magazine, and the Thomson Reuters Foundation. In 2019, Sally was named as one of Forbes '30 Under 30′ in Media in Europe, in part because of her work on refugee issues. Visit our website: https://lnkd.in/gZNKTyc7 Email Andrew: a.keen@me.com Watch the show live on Twitter: https://twitter.com/ajkeen Watch the show live on LinkedIn: https://lnkd.in/gatW6J8v Watch the show live on Facebook: https://lnkd.in/gjzVnTkY Watch the show on YouTube: https://lnkd.in/gDwPgesS Subscribe to Andrew's newsletter: https://lnkd.in/gzwFsxPV Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Abstract: As our world continues to witness converging crises of health, economic stability, climate change, and inequality/injustice, ESG seems to be having a moment. However, forward-thinking organizations understand that ESG—and its business expectations—represents a movement. In this episode of the Principled Podcast, LRN Senior Advisor Emily Miner talks with Che Sidanius, Global Head of Financial Crime & Industry Affairs at Refinitiv, about environmental, social, and governance initiatives—also known as ESG—and where organizations currently stand when it comes to ESG commitments, activities, analysis, and measurement. Listen in as Emily and Che explore how different parts of the world execute on ESG, what factors are at play when implementing ESG strategies, and how “green crime” threatens the environment, business, and security.   Featured guest: As the Global Head of Regulations & Industry Affairs at Refinitiv, Che Sidanius manages how regulatory changes around financial crime affect the company's risk and supply chain business globally. His responsibilities include proposing courses of action to address regulatory changes and drive execution throughout the organization. Prior to joining Refinitiv, Che worked at Big 4 consultancies within Capital Markets Advisory. He also spent part of his career as a Senior Advisor at the Bank of England as well as a Senior Examiner at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York during the 2007-09 financial crisis.   Featured Host:  Emily Miner is a Senior Advisor in LRN's Ethics & Compliance Advisory practice. She counsels executive leadership teams on how to actively shape and manage their ethical culture through deep quantitative and qualitative understanding and engagement. A skilled facilitator, Emily emphasizes co-creative, bottom-up, and data-driven approaches to foster ethical behavior and inform program strategy. Emily has led engagements with organizations in the healthcare, technology, manufacturing, energy, professional services, and education industries. Emily co-leads LRN's ongoing flagship research on E&C program effectiveness and is a thought leader in the areas of organizational culture, leadership, and E&C program impact. Prior to joining LRN, Emily applied her behavioral science expertise in the environmental sustainability sector, working with non-profits and several New England municipalities; facilitated earth science research in academia; and contributed to drafting and advancing international climate policy goals. Emily has a Master of Public Administration in Environmental Science and Policy from Columbia University and graduated summa cum laude from the University of Florida with a degree in Anthropology.   Show Notes: [3:57] How has Covid accelerated the focus on ESG? [5:58] What are the three pillars of ESG and how are they connected? [8:30] How is ESG being addressed? [10:15] Is there a spectrum in regards to where businesses stand on their prioritization of ESG? [16:12] Who are the role models in Europe and the U.S. for their ESG prioritization? [18:15] How will the new SEC Climate Task Force change the business landscape?  [23:20] What are Refinitiv's strategies for addressing ESG? [26:40]  What is Che's personal drive when it comes to ESG? [28:56] What would Che tell a young child who wants to know how these systems of environmental damage can be repaired?   Transcription: Intro: Welcome to the Principled podcast brought to you by LRN. The Principled podcast brings together the collective wisdom on ethics, business and compliance, transformative stories of leadership, and inspiring workplace culture. Listen in to discover valuable strategies from our community of business leaders and workplace change makers.   Emily Miner: As our world continues to witness converging crises of health, economic stability, climate change, and inequality and injustice, ESG seems to be having a moment. However, forward thinking organizations understand that ESG and its business expectations represent a movement. Hello, and welcome to another episode of LRN's Principled podcast. I'm your host, Emily Miner, senior ethics and compliance advisor. And today I'm joined by Che Sidanius, the global head of financial crime and industry affairs at Refinitiv, a London stock exchange group business. We're going to be talking about environmental, social, and governance initiatives, also known as ESG, and where organizations currently stand when it comes to ESG commitments, activities, analysis, and measurement. We'll also explore how different parts of the world execute on ESG, and what factors are at play when implementing ESG strategies. Che, thanks for coming on the Principled podcast. Can you start by introducing yourself to our listeners? Your title is global head of financial crime and industry affairs, which might not scream ESG to many of our listeners. What's the connection?   Che Sidanius: Absolutely. So first of all, thank you so much for the invitation, and thank you Emily for hosting this webcast. I'm delighted to be joined with you. So broadly, let me take a step back. In terms of my role with Refinitiv, we are a big believer that in order to tackle many of the issues that we face today, including sustainability and ESG as a measurement of trying to address the issues around allocating or shifting the allocation of capital to industries and sectors and companies, we're trying to do the right thing and at the same time, engage with policymakers, and helping them to understand what some of those challenges are, including data standards and data taxonomies, in order for us to achieve that goal. Why am I here? What's the connection between the financial crime? It's, there's a convergence between the financial crime activities that we're seeing, particularly related to environmental crime and what we call green crime, which is the intersection between illicit proceeds of illegal logging, illegal wildlife trafficking, illegal fishing, and many of the other aspects that influence and impact our environment and sustainability and the ESG agenda. So I work as a function of that. I work very closely with our sustainable finance team, with our ESG team, and in fact, to allow our ability to combine our data sets that we both have, to enable both companies and sectors and policymakers to make more informed decisions, and not just looking at environmental crime or sustainability agenda as purely as an act of trying to meet the Green Deal and many of the aspects of the green deal that any organizations [inaudible 00:03:32], but actually to look at it more holistically. So just as the sustainability team and the ESG team are doing more to look at our financial crime data, we at the same time are looking at ESG data in a different way that we haven't done in the past. And I think that this acceleration of both of those issues are only going to gain momentum in the future.   Emily Miner: Thank you Che. When we were talking earlier, you mentioned that COVID is also accelerating the focus on ESG. Why is that?   Che Sidanius: Absolutely. We launched a campaign about a year and a half ago... more than a year and a half ago, almost two years ago, on a theme that we called green crime, which is that we were actually seeing the increased activity and potential impact of environmental crime issues that it has on sustainability, as I mentioned with fishing, illegal logging, et cetera. And this is before COVID. When COVID happened, that was a game changer in terms of awareness that in fact, our interaction with the wildlife and interaction with the wet markets and the trading of wildlife had an actual incredible impact in terms of spreading potential diseases. The awareness of the economic consequences, the social consequences, the consequences to the health of our families, has now reached a point where maybe two years ago this would've been, "Oh that's a very interesting idea, but I don't see how that's relevant," when we all know now that these things are not just about climate change that's the happened in the future, but in fact they have a real impact on peace and security right now. And so that really is why COVID has been a real game changer in terms of raising awareness on this issue.   Emily Miner: Yeah. When you put it like that, I'm thinking about all the interconnected elements, and it's really actually quite mind-boggling to think about how COVID, and health, and markets, and countries, and people, and goods and services, and movement, ideas, how the movement of all of those things kind of are putting us where we are today. So maybe with that kind of big, sometimes overwhelming picture in mind, can I ask you to break down ESG into the E,, the S and the G, and talk about where we are right now with respect to our understanding of what that is, and kind of current activities and measurements related to the three pillars?   Che Sidanius: Yeah, absolutely. So historically up until today, the major focus has been on the E, or the environmental piece. The European Commission, the US, and many of the jurisdictions are really focused quite a bit on what should be reported, what are the data taxonomies around that, and making sure that there's some kind of consistency in terms of what companies and organizations should be required to report. And there's of course a healthy debate about what should be voluntary versus what should be mandatory. The G however has received some attention, but the S has received very little attention. In fact, no one actually knows what the S actually means. And I mention the S, because it is connected to the E. The labor rights, and the human rights, and diversity and inclusion are very much connected to the environmental consequences, so that we see that in many parts of the world, including the middle east, including the US, we're even talking today what's happened in Louisiana. They have consequences in terms of human movement, and also criminal actors taking advantage of that. So we tend to think of the E and the S and the G as though they're separate pieces, when they're in fact very much connected. And we know that from, again, from a financial crime perspective, that criminals are interconnected, they're global, they're very sophisticated. Companies are interconnected, they're global, and it's really about causing real focus into these issues. So I think a lot of great work is done on the E. We still have some work to do on the G, but the S I think is another piece that's going to receive increased focus. And we, very quickly, I'll very quickly draw attention to a paper in fact, that that was launched and published a few months ago. That was the leadership that was Thomson Reuters Foundation, to look at the S. To actually say that, you know what, while there's more for us to do, there's enough data there for organizations and institutional investors to look at, and there's an incredible weight and much more work for us to kind of really push in terms of policy reforms, to make sure that the E as much as received attention, that the S, that receives equal amounts of attention as well.   Emily Miner: Yeah. Actually to that point that you were making around how the S, the social aspect is connected to the E, the environmental aspect, I just read yesterday that the US Federal Health Department is creating a new office to address climate change as part of their broader health equity agenda. So again, that connection between the environment and how that's impacting society and inequality and justice.   Che Sidanius: If I could Emily, on that, there's no question that regulators, policymakers are paying more attention to this now than ever. We know that the SEC, the Securities Exchange Commission, has made some very particular statements on this. The European Central Bank has made some very particular statements on this. And so the time for the industry at large to translate its language regarding what they say from a marketing perspective to actual action is the disconnect that we need to close. And we of course as a company are committed to this, and we can talk about that, but there's no question that this is the way of the future. As I've said before, companies and industries can either, [inaudible 00:09:42], lead, follow, or get out of the way. But there's no question that as the title rightly makes the point, that the ESG is not a moment. It is a movement. We're going to see the greatest wealth transfer happen between one generation to another. Wide estimates in terms of what that transfer is, but it's somewhere around $30 trillion, and that is quite an astounding number. So I think it's an important piece for organizations to get on top of.   Emily Miner: Yeah, absolutely. And you just mentioned the need for these efforts to be more than just marketing initiatives, and I want to kind of focus on that for a little bit, because we also have the stakeholder capitalism movement that intersects with ESG in a lot of ways. And there's a debate playing out right now in the pages of the Wall Street Journal about whether any of this talk is actually translating into action. We're two years out from the Business Roundtable's new declaration of the purpose of a corporation, and some say this is all hot air, whereas others are citing meaningful progress, albeit slow. Where do you fall down on this debate? The spectrum from nothing's happening at all, to yes, things are changing? So where do you come down on this debate in general, but then also in particular in relation to ESG, our topic today?   Che Sidanius: No, it's a great question, and there is a spectrum. There's a spectrum in terms of organizations who are still driven by short-term profit-making versus a longer, more sustainable economic model. There's also debate about publicly traded versus privately held organizations, where the publicly traded organizations are still driven and still much pressured by the investor community to focus on short-term profit. And there's a wide spectrum, and I guess my point is the following. There's no clash between short-term profit and long-term profit. There is a clash however between short-term opportunism and more of a longer-term sustainable agenda. And this has to do as much with, if you look at the diversity of boards, that have been shown to be more stable, incomes and profits have been more stable over time. There's a connection between organizations who are committed to a more sustainable business practice and a more stable and profitable sort of trajectory in terms of where they go. And yes you can make the argument, yes CEOs, they're being pressured by shareholders to continue to deliver [inaudible 00:12:26] profit incentives. But there also needs to be a recognition that there's a longer play here. There's a play with the brand, there's a play about doing the right thing. And those things, as I said, the next generation, they will care. They will vote with their feet. They will vote with their asset allocation. And the institutional investor community is starting to respond to this. There's a piece here about educating the industry and also educating the policymakers. There is no clash between stakeholder capitalism piece and a shareholder capitalism piece, that the two are becoming much more intertwined in a way that you haven't seen before. And again, it gets into, do you want to lead on that discussion? Or do you want to pretend that nothing's going to change?   Emily Miner: Yeah, I've read a statistic recently that right now, 65% of the workforce in the United States is looking for another job. So again, kind of bringing back the connection to COVID in all of this. But that's a really staggering percentage. That's I think higher than it's ever been. And so when we're faced with a situation where we already have labor shortages and it's really a labor market, the companies that are leading with their values, leading with their purpose, treating employees equitably, paying living wages, doing the right thing publicly and behind closed doors, those are really the organizations that are going to come out ahead. And you cited some research, there's so much out there about how organizations that do the right thing also outperform on their bottom line. So it's, I feel like the question about whether there's an ROI there really should be laid to rest.   Che Sidanius: You're right. I mean, there's a point that we collectively, that we certainly as a company and many others, have to communicate that the UN social developmental goals and many other goals regarding a more sustainable sort of future economic model, it's not just the right thing to do but it actually pays off. It gets into the short-term-ism versus the longterm-ism. And I'll just give a very brief example. So Refinitiv, so while the name is fairly new, we used to be part of Thomson Reuters. We're a fundamentally data and technology company, we always have been. Ended up, we got started in the 1830s, right? So how did we get started? We got started in the fact that we used carrier pigeons to carry stock prices between Aachen Germany and Brussels. Now, we've come a long way from carrier pigeons, right? But the fundamentals of what we do, data, providing data to organizations and companies and others who need it, is the same. And it's the same thing with this. We will need to adapt. We need to adapt, and organizations will need to make a choice in terms of where they fit into that, because we have every intention to continue as we did in the 1830s, to continue that journey in the next 270 years as well. But look, sustainability and ESG are... I think it's fairly uncontroversial to say that these are some of the biggest challenges facing all of us, and it's not a company problem. It's not a policy problem. It's not a civics problem. It's all of our issue. And it's really about how we as a company and how the private industry plays a role in doing that. Because as I said, it's either you adapt or you don't.   Emily Miner: I didn't know that origin story of Refinitiv, that's really incredible. So you're based in the UK, Refinitiv is based in the UK, and the E within ESG is more regulated in Europe than it is in the US where I sit. As you look at kind of the landscape at a federal level, who are the role models out there?   Che Sidanius: Yeah, I think there's multiple role models. I think certainly within Europe from a federal perspective, to put it in US terms in terms of state versus federal, the European Commission and the finance ministers in Europe have put a great emphasis and priority in translating the Green Deal, their own version of the Green Deal into action, and part of those discussions as an advisor to that. But the US is also, in many aspects is also a leader. We have mayors of cities, and we have states in the US who are really taking action as well. Now, unfortunately from my perspective, there might be a disconnect, historically might have been a disconnect between the federal action versus the state, if you will. And I think that these things will come into their own, and it's not just a question of protecting the status quo versus innovating. But we all know the impact and the role of climate change that it has, we all know that the impact of human trafficking as an example, and also the opportunities that it provides in terms of investing in technology. And that will be the future, just like oil was the future in the beginning of the 19th century, data and technology is the new oil, if you will. And so that is the direction of travel. And I think it's only a matter of time before the US and many other jurisdictions and countries who are doing incredible work here can join forces to actually amplify, to force multiply all these actions in a way where maybe we haven't seen in the past.   Emily Miner: Yeah. And kind of following from that point, you mentioned the SEC earlier, the Securities and Exchange Commission. And they've recently announced that they're creating a task force, or have created a task force, on climate and ESG and are looking into climate disclosures. How do you think that is going to change the business landscape when it comes to advancing the ESG agenda? I'm thinking of other kind of international climate policy where the US has been a participant, but not a ratified member because of our political situation and it's more challenging to get consensus around that. But then we have from the business regulatory perspective some movement here that was recently announced. What do you think is going to come of that?   Che Sidanius: Yeah, so I think there's two parts to this. The first is, as you mentioned, the announcement by the SEC is certainly not isolated. There's been announcements by many regulators. The G20 and ECB, European Central Bank, and many others. New York Fed, a former employer. That's the direction of travel, and they will do more work in this space. The issue that we need to resolve in a way is consistency in terms of definitely varied data and IT specific issues regarding standardized definitions as an example, right? So during the work we did with the Thomson Reuters Foundation, when we dig into the S as an example, as a company we have 140 different data points when it comes to the social part. But when we dig into it, there is a lack of definitional issues that ensures consistency in terms of what human rights actually means. There's a gulf and a gap in what diversity actually means, because it will be country specific, historically context specific, and there needs to be a discussion around, okay, if we're going to require organizations to report and then to manage, then we need to begin a discussion of what we're actually trying to capture, and making sure that there's consistency internationally on these issues. So I think that that is where we need to go, and I know that in many jurisdictions there's an active debate in terms of data taxonomy. And just as in the financial crime space, going back to that with the interlinkages, 20 years ago, there was an active discussion in terms of many of the predicate offenses actually meant an evolution of financial crime like environmental crime, which is very much connected to ESG. And the ESG, that discussion is just starting to develop in terms of making sure that there's some consistency, and also a public/private sector dialogue on key indicators. What should we focus on? And also not for just to be about carrying a stick in terms of punishing countries or companies, but also providing an incentive for companies to do the right thing. And then you can get into the capital regime from a financial sector perspective, in terms of allowing for banks to benefit of capital relief if they're actually deemed to be doing the right things on reporting and all the rest of it. So it's a complex answer to a complex issue, but again, there's no question that the train has left the station. Now it's really about how we can collaborate in a more effective way to get to the right place that we all want to be.   Emily Miner: Yeah. The examples that you shared were really helpful in just kind of explaining the complexity behind all of this. You're right. We can all agree on the goals or the outcomes that we're looking for, but then the how do you get there, and the nuances and language and definitions and historical context that you were mentioning... I know when, after George Floyd's murder, LRN kind of took the opportunity to reflect on how we are encouraging diversity, equity, and inclusion in our own four walls so to speak as well as what we're doing in the broader community. And we had a series of conversations with our colleagues around the globe, and diversity meant very, very different things depending on what country we were calling in from, because of the different historic, political, cultural differences that we were all bringing to the table. And it was really fascinating and productive to explore those differences and figure out, how do we normalize all of this so that we can make progress, and what are those metrics, and how are we measuring, et cetera. So yeah, thanks for sharing that. We've been talking a lot about ESG from a kind of a global landscape, and I want to bring it down to Refinitiv. So this is a core part of your business, is to, as you've talked about, providing technology, data, expertise to your clients to help them make sustainable investment decisions, mitigate their risk, et cetera. How are applying this internally, taking your own medicine so to speak? What's Refinitiv's ESG strategy, and what's it look like?   Che Sidanius: Absolutely. So sustainability is a core part of our ethos. And really when you think of what Refinitiv is, we're a collection of businesses, but sustainability is a key part of it. A, what are we doing to apply our own medicine, we have we think fairly ambitious plans in terms of our own carbon footprint, meaning reduction of travel. We're committing to 65% of our suppliers to give us a science-based emission plan in terms of what they're doing to address some of these things, by 2025 by the way, so just in a few years' time. We're encouraging volunteering. We're committed to be one of the top three providers of sustainability, sustainability data for other companies and organizations and policymakers, which also means of course very engaged on the policy front. We are an advisor and a knowledge provider to the UN on its own sustainability task force, to the European Commission, the World Economic Forum, et cetera, et cetera. So beyond the data piece, we're very engaged on the policy piece as well. But beyond that, beyond that, and you mentioned diversity and inclusion, we're incredibly committed to this as well. And while we focus a tremendous amount on gender and gender diversity, which is a critical issue, we're also committed to minority inclusion, all across all our businesses and all across where we have a presence. So we're 190 countries, we have a global presence, and we're deeply committed to these issues. And you're right, George Floyd personally was a... how can I put it? It was a horrible event. I myself know that incident and watching that video brought my own history and my own memories that I had suppressed, in fact for a long time. And I could have been George. And so I personally committed to this issue as well, and working very much with the executive leadership team to make sure that we move beyond marketing statements into actual action, because A, I think it's the right thing to do, B, I think it only represents the community and the global community that we serve. And third, I wanted for us to be known as a place that fosters diversity, that propels diversity, promotes diversity. And at the end of the day, it just makes more business sense because of all the reasons that I mentioned that actually companies who are more diverse end up doing better, longer term. So, so hopefully that gives you a sense of our commitments on these spots. Emily Miner: It does, and thank you for sharing them, and also for kind of the personal lens that you're bringing into your work at Refinitiv and being one of those agents for change. Staying on the personal topic for a bit, what's your drive when it comes to ESG, how did you fall into this? Or did you fall into this? Is this a more kind of intentional kind of life journey that has gotten you to where you are today with ESG being such a central thread to the different activities that you're involved in and leading at Refinitiv?   Che Sidanius: Yeah no, it's a good question. I think it's a combination of both. It's a combination of looking at the environments, and looking at where we can play a bigger role. And I know for a fact that our CEO and our executive leadership team is putting a great emphasis on these issues. I also see the connection as we talked about between the environmental crime agenda and what we call green crime in sustainability. They're in fact very much joined. Just because it's new and evolving doesn't mean it's actually new, really. It's been there all along. We just haven't paid attention to it. And I think that we can do more as a company in terms of what we can influence, the value that we think that we bring to the table. And of course personally, how can I not as a citizen of the world look at what's happening and be... We all live under different jurisdictions, but we can see day-to-day the impact of climate change. And it's really about the question that you asked, that I asked myself. Well, what are you doing about it? Now I guess that's a... mission is a bit of a strong word, but it's certainly an intent, to leverage whatever I can bring, whatever effect that I can have as small as it may be, but it's, it's causing, making sure that you can look my son in the eye, certainly to show him, this is an issue that I know it's going to affect you more than it's going to affect us. My question is, what role do you have to play in that? And I think we all have a role to play in that.   Emily Miner: I have a fun as well, he's four, and he loves animals. He wants to be a marine biologist when he grows up so that he can save all the animals. And we read these National Geographic books about different animals, and they kind of always close with a description of the threats to those animals, they're endangered or at risk. And so often, it falls into what you talked about, is green crime. And he always asks me, what can we do about this? And I tend to respond with a kind of a four year old version of regulatory and economic incentives, and addressing those. What would you say to my four year old?   Che Sidanius: Well if I'm lucky enough to meet him, and that is a profound question that I'm not quite sure in do justice, but what I would say is a few things here. The first is the incentives piece. When need to have an incentivized culture built from the investment community to incentivize organizations to take action on these, and then for the allocation of capital to vote. We also need incentives from the regulatory community, and I think here specifically as an example of the supervisors in the banking community for example, who are an incredible, important piece, to allow regulators to really change the capital and how they're being allocated, what the expectation is. In both, there's a stick of course with increasing capital, for organizations who are not doing the right thing if you will. There's also a carrot in ensuring that you can lower their capital when they are doing the right thing. And what does capital mean? Why is it so important? Capital is a direct influencer in terms of return on equity. It can be a direct influencer on return on investment, ROI. And the same thing for credit agencies, who have an incredible amount of influence in terms of rating companies, assets, securities, as a function of the environmental impact that those securities' assets may have. And so the green crime agenda or the green deal agenda should be incorporated with credit agencies. Why? Because they impact the cost of funding, they impact the cost of liquidity. So I think that once we have that type of a common approach with many of the actors that have a significant influence on behavior, and let's assume that humans are economically driven persons that respond to the incentives around them, then let's start there. And then of course there's awareness raising, but the planet is raising our awareness by itself, so hopefully that's not a very controversial statement in terms of what we need to focus on. But I think that would be my long-winded answer Emily, and making sure that we pinpoint the nervous system of the financial system that has a significant influence on behavior.   Emily Miner: Yeah. Thank you. My four year old is about to turn five, so I think he's just about there to be able to internalize what you just said. Well Che, there's so much that we can unpack here, but we're running out of time for today. It's been really wonderful having you on the Principled podcast, and I've really enjoyed this discussion. To those of you that are listening, my name is Emily Miner, and thanks for tuning in. Thanks so much, Che.   Che Sidanius: Thank you, Emily.   Outro: We hope you enjoyed this episode. The Principled podcast is brought to you by LRN. At LRN, our mission is to inspire principled performance in global organizations by helping them foster winning ethical cultures rooted in sustainable values. 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Avi Asher-Schapiro is a journalist covering tech & rights for Thomson Reuters Foundation. He wrote "Skin in the Game" for Harper's. He's also written for The Intercept and Vice, among other publications. Here are links to his Twitter feed and article: https://harpers.org/archive/2020/12/skin-in-the-game-wall-street-student-debt-crisis/ https://twitter.com/AASchapiro  

Paris Marx is joined by Avi Asher-Schapiro and Maya Gebeily to discuss how Facebook isn't fully enforcing its ban on conversion therapy in Arabic, what that means for LGBTQ people in Arabic-speaking countries, and how social media has become a battleground.Avi Asher-Schapiro is a journalist covering technology for the Thomson Reuters Foundation. Maya Gebeily is the Middle East Correspondent at the Thomson Reuters Foundation. Follow Avi on Twitter as @AASchapiro and follow Maya as @GebeilyM.

Nastasha Alli was born and raised in the Philippines and came to Canada in 2007. For her writing at the intersection of food and diaspora communities, she won a Food Sustainability Media Award from the Thomson Reuters Foundation. Her work has been featured on CBC Radio and her recipe published in a “top cookbook of 2018” by the San Francisco Chronicle. She talks about Philippine food history, traditions and culture with guests from around the world on her Exploring Filipino Kitchens podcast. At time 23:19 Nastasha shares a reading from “Sticky Notes on a Map” which will be published in the upcoming Belief Anthology Nastasha's website is https://www.nastasha.ca/ For more about The Artsy Raven Podcast or to join our exclusive Artsy Raven club to receive free books and other cool stuff, visit: https://jfgarrard.com/arpodcast Patreon subscribers remember to access your bonus content for each episode: https://www.patreon.com/jfgarrard

This episode features Thin Lei Win, an award-winning Burmese climate change, food security and humanitarian correspondent living in Italy. Thin recently went freelance after nearly 13 years reporting for the Thomson Reuters Foundation, the non-profit arm of the Thomson Reuters global news agency. Born and raised in Yangon, Myanmar, she is also the founder and former chief correspondent of bilingual news agency Myanmar Now and co-founder of the non-profit storytelling project The Kite Tales, a unique storytelling and preservation project chronicling the lives and histories of ordinary people across Myanmar. We discuss whether the foreign correspondent model is due a reckoning following a recent reporting trip by CNN International to Myanmar to cover the country's recent military coup. The media outlet was widely criticised for the trip, with many accusing it of downplaying the role played by local journalists and for causing harm as 11 local sources were arrested after speaking to CNN's reporter. Useful links   Check out this Vice article: How CNN's Myanmar Trip Started a Debate Over Parachute Journalism Check out Thin's storytelling project The Kite Tales Check out Myanmar Now  Sign up to Thin's newsletter about food systems and climate change Follow Thin on Twitter

This week Ruby speaks to Sarah Farrelly, a Pro Bono Associate at Charles Russell Speechlys. They chat about Sarah's career to date, including her time as a Senior Legal Manager at TrustLaw, the global pro bono legal service of the Thomson Reuters Foundation. A really interesting episode for any aspiring lawyers with an interest in human rights or legal aid.

Damian Radcliffe is the Carolyn S. Chambers Professor in Journalism at University of Oregon and also a fellow of the Tow Center for Digital Journalism at Columbia University. However, most of us know Professor Radcliffe as the author of numerous studies that provide insight into the global journalism ecosystem. His latest study on the impact of COVID-19 on journalism was just released in conjunction with The Thomson Reuters Foundation. It reveals the pandemic’s impact on the personal safety and welfare of journalists,  the structure of newsrooms and disruption to business models and the proliferation of fake news, and surging threats to media freedom. The study also identifies best practice and innovative approaches that have been developed as a response to the challenges of COVID-19. In this segment of E&P Reports, publisher Mike Blinder chats with Radcliffe about his current findings from this study and what trends he is seeing in the other research projects he is currently working on. Related links: More about Damian Radcliffe: https://www.linkedin.com/in/damianradcliffe/ Download the entire Thomson Reuters Foundation study http://covid-report.trust.org

Deborah Spencer is a Harvard-educated lawyer with a heart to uplift oppressed women and girls.  The people she serves have been identified by the Thomson Reuters Foundation and the BBC as some of the most exploited in our world today.  She co-founded and leads an organization that trains them to end child marriages and child labor, to form a barrier of prevention against trafficking in their homes and communities, and to lift themselves above the poverty level. Join us for a conversation about an important struggle going on every day that we rarely ever see.

The Lebanese Politics Podcast is back for season four and with a new co-host joining the team to boot! Timour Azhari, Lebanon correspondent for the Thomson Reuters Foundation and long time friend of the show is joining Ben and Nizar as a permanent host of the podcast. In our first show of 2021, we cover the continuing crises in Lebanon, including the coronavirus lockdown, protests in Tripoli, the assassination of Lockman Slim, the six month anniversary of the Beirut port explosion and the lack of push to form a government. Music track: Zuhal by Elepheel, check out his other work @elepheel

Professor Damian Radcliffe and Will Church, Head of Journalism and Media Programmes at the Thomson Reuters Foundation join Ian Williams of the Foreign Press Association USA to expand on their recently published report on the impact of COVID-19 on Journalism in Emerging Economies and the Global South. Across the world, the virus has affected media as well as the health of journalists. The pandemic has driven fake news and evoked a surge of threats against the media in emerging economies. Sent out to cover the epidemic, hundreds of our colleagues have died, others have been threatened by governments and proprietors for reporting inexpedient truths, in some countries they have been banned from government press conferences, while 17 countries have introduced double-edged laws against “fake” news, where governments decide “what is truth.” Professor Damian Radcliffe and Will Church, Head of Journalism and Media Programmes at the Thomson Reuters Foundation expand on their recently published report detailing the virus's toll on the health of media and of media workers drawing upon their extensive global network of Foundation alumni. A practicing journalist, Professor Damian Radcliffe is Professor in Journalism and an affiliate of the Department for Middle East and North Africa Studies (MENA), at the University of Oregon. Will Church is Head of Journalism and Media Programmes at the Thomson Reuters Foundation. Mr Church will share context and information about why the Thomson Reuters Foundation commissioned this report, and the nature of the journalist alumni who contributed so heavily to it.

From St. Petersburg, Angelina Davydova, Environmental journalist and head of the German Russian Office of Environmental Information, graciously joins us to give us the surprising facts on environmental activism, protests, and reforms in Russia. She talks about the very real effects of climate change in that part of the world, including the fires in Siberia, the record high temperatures, and the meteorological phenomena in Vladivostok. This was an eye-opening but uplifting conversation in many ways. We learned a lot and we hope you will too! ABOUT THE GUEST https://cdn.theconversation.com/avatars/99966/width238/3pqxrntc-1375095811.jpg Angelina Davydova is a renowned journalist, civil society expert, educator and change-maker with more than 20 years of experience in Russian and international media, international non-governmental organizations, think-tanks and the academy. Her main focus is on climate and environmental policies, efforts and solutions. She is regarded as an expert in Russian climate/environmental policy, “green” civil society initiatives and grass-root movements, environmental/climate journalism and communication, sustainable and resilient urban development. She is regularly contributing for Russian and international media outlets, while also editing a quarterly “Environment and Law”. In addition to this, she is also a director of an NGO “Office of environmental information” (based in St.Petersburg, Russia) and an expert with the DRA e. V. (Berlin). She teaches at the St. Petersburg State University (School of Journalism), the European University in St. Petersburg, School of Architecture March (Moscow) and gives guest lectures and seminars in universities in Germany and the USA. Since 2008 Angelina Davydova has also been an observer of the UN Climate Negotiations (the UNFCCC). She has graduated from The St.Petersburg State University of Economics and Finance in 2000 and completed a number of international educational and professional development programs, including the Thomson Reuters Foundation programme in Oxford University (2006), City of Hamburg Young Leaders Internship Program (2009), Beahrs Environmental Leadership Program (UC Berkeley, California, 2012) and Humphrey Fellowship (UC Davis, 2018-2019. Angelina Davydova is a member of the Global Reference Group (Bread for the World, development and relief agency of the Protestant Churches in Germany) and a virtual fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (DC, 2020-2021). She is a member of the World Future Council since October 2020. https://www.worldfuturecouncil.org/p/angelina-davydova/ Check out Angelina's journalism here: https://www.reuters.com/journalists/angelina-davydova NOTE: This episode was recorded on November 23rd, 2020 via Zoom. CREDITS Co-Host/Associate Producer: Cullan Bendig Co-Host/Assistant Producer: Zach Johnson Co-Producer: Matthew Orr (Connect: facebook.com/orrrmatthew) Co-Producer: Tom Rehnquist (Connect: Twitter @RehnquistTom) Associate Producer: Lera Toropin Assistant Producer: Samantha Farmer Assistant Producer: Katherine Birch Associate Producer/Administrator: Kathryn Yegorov-Crate Recording, Editing, and Sound Design: Michelle Daniel, Charlie Harper Music Producer: Charlie Harper (Connect: facebook.com/charlie.harper.1485 Instagram: @charlieharpermusic) www.charlieharpermusic.com (Main Theme by Charlie Harper and additional background music by Charlie Harper, Ketsa, Scott Holmes, The Polish Ambassador, Michelle Daniel Trio) Executive Producer & Creator: Michelle Daniel (Connect: facebook.com/mdanielgeraci Instagram: @michelledaniel86) www.msdaniel.com DISCLAIMER: Texas Podcast Network is brought to you by The University of Texas at Austin. Podcasts are produced by faculty members and staffers at UT Austin who work with University Communications to craft content that adheres to journalistic best practices. The University of Texas at Austin offers these podcasts at no charge. Podcasts appearing on the network and this webpage represent the views of the hosts, not of The University of Texas at Austin. https://files.fireside.fm/file/fireside-uploads/images/9/9a59b135-7876-4254-b600-3839b3aa3ab1/P1EKcswq.png Special Guest: Angelina Davydova.

In September 2020, the New Humanitarian and the Thomson Reuters Foundation revealed that ‘More than 50 women accuse aid workers of sex abuse in Congo Ebola crisis.' On this episode, Dr Eleanor Nwadinobi talks to Nellie Peyton, one of the journalist who uncovered the story, to understand what happened in the DRC and how. Ester Dross, an experienced safeguarding advisor, also joins to help us explore what the sector can learn from this experience. Find our top takeaways below and share your own reflections and learning on our Online Community   A summary of the Top Takeaways from this podcast: Engage communities from the start: Communicate with communities on their rights, expectations and the ways to report concerns. Provide incentives to report: Explain exactly what happens to reports. Strengthen recruitment processes: Consider candidates as potential prey as well as perpetrators Give weight to safeguarding or PSEAH focal points: A direct link to management will enable real change. Be proactive: It's not good enough to sit and wait for reports. Go out there and talk to people.

When Dusan Simien, a San Francisco native with a knack for technology, enrolled in a two-year coding program at the for-profit Holberton School, he financed it with an income share agreement: a contract in which he agreed to pay the school 17 percent of his income for a set period after graduation. But before long, Simien found himself struggling with Holberton's instructorless education model and its cheaply designed curriculum. And when he was expelled on a dubious charge of plagiarism, he found himself owing the school a percentage of his paycheck from the same job he'd had when he enrolled. Simien's case typifies a growing trend. As Avi Asher-Schapiro documents in the December issue, income share agreements (ISAs) have taken off in the past few years as a means of financing education, and they've caught the attention of policymakers—and investors—across the political spectrum. To their proponents, ISAs are an answer to traditional financing options that have left many poor Americans, especially African-American students like Simien, unable to attend college without taking on exorbitant debt. These financial tools could theoretically make institutions more accountable, by tying institutional profits to alumni success. To their detractors, ISAs can be predatory loans in disguise, ripe for exploitation by unscrupulous institutions such as Holberton. By tying contract terms to projected earnings, they also increase the pressure on students to seek careers that are likely to be financially lucrative. In this episode of the Harper's Podcast, Violet Lucca talks with Asher-Schapiro, who covers technology and human rights issues at the Thomson Reuters Foundation, about these and other hopes and concerns for the growing ISA market. They discuss the origination of the ISA idea by Milton Friedman, parallels between ISAs and the charter school movement, and the potential ramifications of “treating students like startups.”

On this week's Openly podcast, Hugo Greenhalgh looks back at the issues facing LGBT+ communities around the world over the course of 2020. In this episode, we focus on Kenya and Thailand; and Thomson Reuters Foundation’s Jack Graham catches up with actor and film-maker Clea Duvall about her new LGBT+ Christmas movie.

Ngôn ngữ là công cụ quan trọng để chúng ta truyền tải ý nghĩ, cảm xúc, thể hiện tình yêu thương của mình đến với những người xung quanh. Chúng còn đặc biệt hơn với những người làm ở lĩnh vực báo chí như Sen, khi Sen phải dùng ngôn ngữ để giải thích một sự việc phức tạp sao cho dễ hình dung nhất với người đọc bình thường.Trong tập này, bạn sẽ có cơ hội lắng nghe chia sẻ của Sen, một nhà báo chuyên viết về đề tài xã hội, môi trường bằng tiếng Anh, câu chuyện của chính cô ấy về trải nghiệm học và sử dụng ngôn ngữ tiếng Anh để theo đuổi ngành mà cô đam mê: nghề làm báo, cũng như trăn trở của bản thân cô về lĩnh vực làm báo tại Việt Nam, cũng như khoảng cách thế hệ giữa những người trẻ và thế hệ cha mẹ, ông bà thông qua câu chuyện của chính mình.Nếu câu chuyện truyền cảm hứng đến bạn và bạn muốn chia sẻ những suy nghĩ của mình đến chương trình, hãy gửi lá thư điện tử ấy đến với chúng tôi tại dearourcommunity@gmail.com nhéTìm hiểu thêm thông tin về Dear Our Community và theo dõi những cập nhật mới nhất tại trang fanpage https://www.facebook.com/dearourcommunity/Sen Nguyễn là một nhà báo tiếng Anh chuyên viết về những chủ đề bất bình đẳng xã hội, các vấn đề về phát triển, môi trường và gần đây nhất là đại dịch Covid-19 với quốc gia trọng tâm là Việt Nam và khu vực Đông Nam Á. Là cựu phóng viên VnExpress International, những bài viết của cô đã được đăng trên nhiều báo quốc tế như South China Morning Post, Al Jazeera, Thomson Reuters Foundation. Cô cũng đã được hãng truyền hình ITV News ở Anh và kênh Al Jazeera The Stream phỏng vấn về việc phòng chống dịch Covid-19 ở Việt Nam. Sen là người Hà Nội.Để đọc các bài viết của Sen, xem tại đây Www.sennguyen.contently.com.

Im Iran ist Nasrin Sotudeh eine Symbolfigur für Frauenrechte. Schon seit Jahren setzt sich die Anwältin für die Rechte von Frauen und Kindern ein. Dafür wird sie bedroht und angefeindet. Nun hat sie den Alternativen Nobelpreis erhalten. Einschätzungen von ARD-Journalistin Natalie Amiri. Die weiteren Themen: * Über 50 Frauen in Kongo-Kinshasa werfen Mitarbeitern internationaler Hilfsorganisationen sexuelle Ausbeutung und Übergriffe vor. Das machen «The New Humanitarian» und die Thomson Reuters Foundation diese Woche in einem Bericht publik. * Die Türkei hat seit Wochen bei den Corona-Zahlen geschummelt. Statt der wirklich Erkrankten wurden nur Patientinnen und Patienten, die Symptome zeigten, in die Statistik aufgenommen. * «Avenir Suisse» feiert dieses Jahr den 20. Geburtstag – und das auf ganz besondere Weise. Die liberale Denkfabrik hat sich ein Polit-Game ausgedacht, in dem man die Schweizer Demokratie erleben kann.

Here's a super retail success story. 20 months ago Kelly Wright launched The Refillery – now Edinburgh's largest plastic-free and ethical shop.She left a well-paid corporate job to launch the business. Even before Covid-19 some folk might have had doubts about launching a bricks-and-mortar retail business when many high streets are struggling. It was certainly a 'huge financial risk' for Kelly, she says: 'at times I couldn't breathe...'But The Refillery has gone from strength to strength, smashing through Kelly's first-year targets, becoming a local community hub as well as a thriving business, winning an award from an international foundation, and adapting through lockdown.Why did Kelly leave a job she loved and was good at to launch The Refillery? How did she fund its startup costs? How did she adapt during lockdown? What have been the biggest challenges – and what is she most proud of? And what's next for the business? Kelly covers it all in this interview.Also in this episode: social enterprise in Africa offers 'job creation on steroids' according to new British Council report.Timings:0-3 introduction and almost-a-rant from me3:37 Kelly Wright interview3:50 What The Refillery in Edinburgh sells5:06 Kelly's previous career and why she launched the business after working on initiatives to reduce packaging and wanting to make a positive – and radical – change8:14 Was it frightening to make this leap?9:00 The key moment which helped Kelly when she nearly gave up her dream and continued in her job – but instead, pushed through to make The Refillery happen11:05 How The Refillery became a lifeline in recent months12:00 What Kelly did to adapt and protect customers' and colleagues' health as a result of Covid-19 – and how she launched a click-and-collect service16:07 How Kelly financed the business using her own savings and support from DSL Business Finance17:41 The challenge of finding the right premises (and another rant from me!)20:00 How The Refillery has totally surpassed Kelly's expectations21:36 In July The Refillery won the Environmental Sustainability category in the Citi Microentrepreneurship Awards – how is Kelly using the cash prize?22:22 Launching 'The Refillery Community' nationwide and how this will scale-up plastic-free retailing25:00 These are UK-wide plans, including for Sheffield and other cities28:53 Some great advice Kelly had early on30:20 Wrapping up Kelly's interview and contact details31:07 Have your say! Sheffield City Region LEP's strategic economic plan32:25 'Job creation on steroids' – study finds social enterprise offers opportunity to create jobs and reboot economies (additional reporting from the Thomson Reuters Foundation)36:32 Wrapping up this episode and how to put yourself forward as a future guest

Episode 14: In this episode, the host, Angie Gust, goes over some of the same information from Life Extension on upper respiratory tract infections as last time as well as using the 2nd dimension of wellness- controlled breathing- if infected with the coronavirus. William Faloon, one of the founders of Life Extension Foundation, emphasizes this key message-- Don't Wait for Full-Blown Illness to Manifest before you initiate self-care. With regard to controlled breathing, it has been recommended by some physicians to help clear the lungs of mucous if you have coronavirus.  Turning to the environment, the next UN Climate Change meeting,  Cop26, that was scheduled for November this year, has been pushed back to next year. However, there was a 2 day virtual climate meeting on April 27 and 28, called the Petersburg Climate Dialogue, among 30 nations, co-chaired by Germany and Britain, where policy makers underscored that spending to rebuild the economy after the COVID 19 shutdowns should not restart growth built on the old fossil fuel platform.   References Birch, J. 4/24/2020. Does deep breathing help coronavirus patients with symptoms? Huffpost https://www.huffpost.com/entry/deep-breathing-coronavirus-patients-symptoms_l_5ea1e2f0c5b6d13e4f73c856 Environmental Voter Project https://www.environmentalvoter.org/ Faloon, W. 2013. What to do if flu symptoms develop in you?https://blog.lifeextension.com/2013/01/how-to-beat-flu-symptoms.html Gonzalez, G, Sandhaus, S, Dosik, J, Roberts, A. 2019 novel coronavirus. Life Extension. Accessed 2 April 2020. https://www.lifeextension.com/protocols/infections/2019-novel-coronavirus-sars-cov2-covid-1Protective Measures Marshall, S. 1998. Zinc gluconate and the common cold. Review of randomized controlled trials. Can Fam Physician 44:1037-42. Munshi, S. 2020. How to Breath better Part 1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZaAQnCw-3w Prasad, AS, Fitzgerald, HT, Bao, B, Beck, FW, Chandrasekar, PH. 2000. Duration of symptoms and plasma cytokine levels in patients with the common cold treated with zinc acetate. A randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial. Ann Intern Med 133:245-52. Ramaswamy, D. April 28, 2020. Coronavirus treatment: Health experts recommend deep breathing exercises. International Business Times. https://www.ibtimes.com/coronavirus-treatment-health-experts-recommend-deep-breathing-exercises-2966171 Ridge, T. April 22, 2020. My fellow conservatives are out of touch on the environment. The Atlantic. https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/04/environment-gop-out-touch/610333/ Rowling, M. April 27, 2020. Environment ministers seek fair, green coronavirus recovery. Thomson Reuters Foundation. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-climate-change-trf-idUSKCN2292WL Saner, E. April 9, 2020. Do breathing exercises really work? UK doctors on how to protect against coronavirus – and manage symptoms. The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2020/apr/08/from-vitamin-c-to-breathing-exercises-doctors-on-what-you-should-really-do-for-your-health-right-now      

In this week's Openly podcast, Americas correspondent Oscar Lopez on how several US states are set to join New Zealand in banning the "gay panic" legal defence; Thomson Reuters Foundation general reporter Matt Lavietes reveals how almost 400,000 trans voters could be unable to vote in the November US presidential elections; and Abigail Saguy, professor of sociology at the University of California Los Angeles, tells us why fat is not just a feminist issue, but also an LGBT+ one.

Kieran Guilbert is the London-based Modern Slavery and Human Trafficking Editor for the Thomson Reuters Foundation, leading a global team of nine journalists reporting on the topics. He has written several exclusives on the UK deporting survivors of modern slavery despite fears over re-trafficking, a rising numbers of former child slaves being denied refugee status in Britain, and labour exploitation on Indian tea plantations stamped slavery free by ethical certification schemes.

One of the saddest things to see is for skilled immigrants and refugees to sacrifice so much to come to Canada and then not have the ability to continue working in their chosen profession once they get here. One of the more common barriers is the cost of applying for certification. Often newcomers are unable to afford the application fees upon arrival and end up working in lower paying positions which only leave them with enough income to survive...never being able to afford the application fees. So what's the solution? .....Windmill Microlending. Listen in to my interview with Onai Abote who shares the remarkable Windmill story and how it has helped countless immigrants realize their dream of working in their chosen profession in Canada. Onai Petra Abote, is the Community Relationship Specialist with Windmill Microlending (formerly Immigrant Access Fund) in Calgary. Onai joined Windmill Microlending from Postmedia, publishers of the Calgary Herald and Calgary Sun where she was part of the advertising management team working as Media Coordinator and also featured as a columnist for both brands. Her achievements include developing clear internal communications for her department, successfully organizing high profile events, ensuring deadlines were met and maintaining relationships with various stakeholders. She also served as a committee member on the Calgary Herald Christmas Fund Committee - a fund that awards grants to some of the cities agencies working with vulnerable groups. Onai is a qualified journalist with over 10 years' experience working as a journalist in Zimbabwe - where she was born and raised. She worked as a freelance television producer for Reuters, and then later as Project Coordinator (and journalist) for The Source – Zimbabwe's first business and financial news agency launched and supported by Thomson Reuters Foundation and European Journalism Centre. As the Windmill Microlending Community Relationship Specialist in the Calgary office, Onai's focus includes executing Windmill Microlending ongoing strategic outreach plan - deepening the organization's extensive referral network of immigrant-serving organizations, learning institutions, regulatory bodies, professional associations and ethno- and occupation-specific groups. While the primary geographic focus is Calgary and Edmonton, she has also represented Windmill Microlending across British Columbia, and built referral networks across Canada in collaboration with counterparts in other provinces. In this episode Onai and I covered the following areas: who is Windmill Microlending; what they do; why they do it; and how they do it. Sponsor: Canadian Immigration Institute - Founded by Immigration Lawyer Mark Holthe Affiliate Program: Click on this link to become an affiliate of the Canadian Immigration Institute: https://www.canadianimmigrationinstitute.com/become-an-affiliate OR, go to the Canadian Immigration Institute main page and scroll down to the very bottom and click on “Affiliate”. Earn 30% when someone purchases via your affiliate link [Tweet "Windmill Microlending...an amazing company."] Additional Resources: Windmill Microlending: https://windmillmicrolending.org/ How to apply: https://windmillmicrolending.org/applicants/eligibility/ Canadian Immigration Institute: https://canadianimmigrationinstitute.com/

One of the saddest things to see is for skilled immigrants and refugees to sacrifice so much to come to Canada and then not have the ability to continue working in their chosen profession once they get here. One of the more common barriers is the cost of applying for certification. Often newcomers are unable to afford the application fees upon arrival and end up working in lower paying positions which only leave them with enough income to survive...never being able to afford the application fees. So what's the solution? .....Windmill Microlending. Listen in to my interview with Onai Abote who shares the remarkable Windmill story and how it has helped countless immigrants realize their dream of working in their chosen profession in Canada. Onai Petra Abote, is the Community Relationship Specialist with Windmill Microlending (formerly Immigrant Access Fund) in Calgary. Onai joined Windmill Microlending from Postmedia, publishers of the Calgary Herald and Calgary Sun where she was part of the advertising management team working as Media Coordinator and also featured as a columnist for both brands. Her achievements include developing clear internal communications for her department, successfully organizing high profile events, ensuring deadlines were met and maintaining relationships with various stakeholders. She also served as a committee member on the Calgary Herald Christmas Fund Committee - a fund that awards grants to some of the cities agencies working with vulnerable groups. Onai is a qualified journalist with over 10 years’ experience working as a journalist in Zimbabwe - where she was born and raised. She worked as a freelance television producer for Reuters, and then later as Project Coordinator (and journalist) for The Source – Zimbabwe’s first business and financial news agency launched and supported by Thomson Reuters Foundation and European Journalism Centre. As the Windmill Microlending Community Relationship Specialist in the Calgary office, Onai's focus includes executing Windmill Microlending ongoing strategic outreach plan - deepening the organization’s extensive referral network of immigrant-serving organizations, learning institutions, regulatory bodies, professional associations and ethno- and occupation-specific groups. While the primary geographic focus is Calgary and Edmonton, she has also represented Windmill Microlending across British Columbia, and built referral networks across Canada in collaboration with counterparts in other provinces. In this episode Onai and I covered the following areas: who is Windmill Microlending; what they do; why they do it; and how they do it. Sponsor: Canadian Immigration Institute - Founded by Immigration Lawyer Mark Holthe  Affiliate Program: Click on this link to become an affiliate of the Canadian Immigration Institute: https://www.canadianimmigrationinstitute.com/become-an-affiliate OR,  go to the Canadian Immigration Institute main page and scroll down to the very bottom and click on “Affiliate”. Earn 30% when someone purchases via your affiliate link [Tweet "Windmill Microlending...an amazing company."] Additional Resources: Windmill Microlending: https://windmillmicrolending.org/ How to apply: https://windmillmicrolending.org/applicants/eligibility/ Canadian Immigration Institute: https://canadianimmigrationinstitute.com/

Maria started with Reuters four years ago as a digital editor handling news curation on Reuters consumer platforms. Since then, Maria has tackled live coverage of major events such as the 2016 U.S. presidential election and the terror attacks in Paris and London. In 2018 Maria covered the U.S. midterm elections from Atlanta, Georgia. Prior to joining Reuters in New York, Maria was a reporter for the Thomson Reuters Foundation in London where she covered social justice and minority rights. Maria hails from Lake Como, Italy. She got her start in journalism at a local newspaper in Milan and ended up in London where she briefly worked for ANSA, Italy’s biggest news agency, and the Financial Times Magazine. Support the stream on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/MurphysLawstream

“Any NGO that doesn’t put data at the centre of their operations will no longer be as relevant as they’ve been in the past,” says Antonio Zappulla, CEO of the Thomson Reuters Foundation.In this episode of Future of Good’s Edge & Main podcast, Antonio offers first-hand insights and provocative analysis into the significance of data for the next decade of social change, and why he believes that data is critical to boosting the public trust of social impact organizations.

Joe Crescente invites eminent ecological journalist Angelina Davydova to the AMC studio to answer the following question: Как заинтересовать простых людей в медиaграмотности? Ангелина Давыдова ― экологический журналист, эксперт «Немецко-русского обмена» (Берлин), директор «Русско-немецкого бюро экологической информации». Более 10 лет она работает с некоммерческими организациями, уделяя особое внимание развитию экологической журналистики в России и соседних странах, а также развитию международного сотрудничества в области окружающей среды и климата. С 1999 года она регулярно сотрудничает с российскими и международными СМИ, включая такие издание, как Коммерсант, РБК, Colta.ru, Фонд Thomson Reuters, The Science Magazine и другие, а также редактирует журнал «Экология и право». Ангелина преподает в Школе журналистики Санкт-Петербургского государственного университета и Санкт-Петербургского национального исследовательского университета информационных технологий, механики и оптики; проводит медиа-тренинги по экологической журналистике в России и за рубежом. В 2006 году она стала стипендиатом программы Reuters Foundation в Университете Оксфорда, а в 2012 году участником программы экологического лидерства Beahrs в Калифорнийском университете в Беркли. Она также является наблюдателем на переговорах ООН в области изменения климата с 2008 года. Ангелина Давыдова отличается глубоким знанием климатической и экологической повестки дня не только в своей стране, но и на международном уровне, а также всего, что, связано с экологической журналистикой и развитием гражданского общества. Angelina Davydova is an environmental journalist, an expert at the German-Russian Exchange (Berlin), and director of the Russian-German Bureau of Ecological Information (RNEI). She has been working with the non-profit organization for more than 10 years, focusing on developing environmental journalism in Russia and neighboring countries and also developing international cooperation in environmental and climate areas. Since 1999 she regularly contributes to Russian and international media, including the Kommersant, RBC, Colta.ru, Thomson Reuters Foundation, The Science Magazine, and others, as well as edits the Ecology and Law magazine. She teaches at the School of Journalism, St. Petersburg State University and the Saint Petersburg National Research University of Information Technologies, Mechanics, and Optics; provides media training on environmental journalism in Russia and abroad. In 2006, Angelina Davydova was a Reuters Foundation Fellow at Oxford University and was a participant of the Beahrs Environmental Leadership Program (ELP) at UC Berkeley in 2012. She has also been an observer with the U.N. climate change process since 2008. As a result, she has a strong understanding of the climate and environmental agenda in her country as well as the international level, environmental journalism, and civil society developments. CREDITS Host/Creator - Joseph Crescente (Media Literacy Fellow, AMC) Music Producer - Charlie Harper (www.charlieharpermusic.com) Executive Producer - Michelle Daniel Recorded at the American Center in Moscow in July 2019. Visit www.amc.ru for more information about programming and events at AMC. Connect with AMC: Instagram: @AMC_Moscow Facebook: facebook.com/acmoscow VKontakte: vk.com/acmoscow For questions, please contact AMC by email: amcenter@amc.ru Thank you to the staff at AMC for contributing their knowledge and talents to make this podcast a full reality! Special Guest: Angelina Davydova (Ангелина Давыдова).

In the second episode of the CGF Sustainability Podcast series, we spoke to Nicholas Glicher, lawyer and Chief Operating Officer at Thomson Reuters Foundation. Nicholas talks about the role of law in the fight against forced labour, how the Foundation’s Stop Slavery Awards is driving change and empowering our industry, and much more.

Thomson Reuters Foundation CEO and founder of Openly, Antonio Zappulla first discusses the role of philanthropy in today's society and why profit with purpose should be at the core of all companies. The European Young Leader also talks about founding Openly, a global digital platform delivering fair, accurate and impartial LGBT+ news to a world that isn’t - because representation matters.

Beyond Meat initial public offering (IPO) share price soars over $80 from $25 surprising everyone and encouraging offerings that could excite ethical and sustainable investors. Learn how to find animal-friendly investments. UN agency PRI says socially responsible investing (SRI) should wake up to modern slavery. Unilever better investment over Johnson & Johnson says sustainability analyst. Transcript & Links May 10, 2019 Hello, Ron Robins here. Welcome to my podcast Ethical & Sustainable Investing News to Profit By! for May 10, 2019. Presented by Investing for the Soul. investingforthesoul.com is your site for vital global ethical and sustainable investment resources. Now to this podcast. Again, for any terms that are unfamiliar to you, simply Google them! Also, you can find a full transcript, live links and sometimes bonus material at my podcast page located at investingforthesoul.com/podcasts ------------------------------------------------------------- Many of you listening are interested in ESG or SRI bond and fixed income investments. And with good reason. A recent article titled, Largest 10 Socially Responsible Fixed Income ETFs, by Todd Shriber of ETF Trends, reviews two leading funds in this space. They are the iShares Global Green Bond ETF (on Nasdaq GM: ticker BGRN) and VanEck Vectors Green Bond ETF (on the NYSEArca: ticker GRNB). These bond funds have great pedigrees. However, the article’s title might suggest the review is of ten SRI fixed income ETFs and that’s a little misleading. Concerning the ten listed—but not reviewed—I wouldn’t put them in the same category as the two funds examined in the article. The SRI credentials of the ten listed are mainly that they invest in government securities and blue-chip company bonds. Of course, governments fund all sorts of things that ethical and sustainable investors might argue aren’t socially responsible. And even though blue-chip companies such as Apple are frequently top SRI holdings, their bonds aren’t usually going directly to fund green projects. Whereas, the iShares Global Green Bond ETF and VanEck Vectors Green Bond ETF specifically fund projects and activities related to environmental and social concerns. ------------------------------------------------------------- Well, I can’t resist the temptation to not talk about the great Beyond Meat initial public offering! It came out at $25 on May 2 and has traded over $80 since then. For a good review of what the company is and what it faces regarding competition etc., see this MarketWatch post, Beyond Meat goes public with a bang: 5 things to know about the plant-based meat maker, by Ciara Linnane. Quoting Ciara, she says, "The maker of the Beyond Burger, which is sold at Whole Foods and restaurant chain TGIF, among others, priced its initial public offering at $25 a share… raising at least $240 million at a valuation slightly shy of $1.5 billion." Close quote. Now at $80 a share Beyond Meat has a staggering market valuation of about $5 billion! I'm delighted to see this offering, as one of the most important things we can do to slow down carbon emissions and climate change, is to reduce our consumption of meat. However, some climate researchers are skeptical about the net benefit of highly processed vegetarian and vegan offerings on the climate. That this IPO went so well is a testament to the fact that even many conservative financial types are recognizing there’s money to be made in climate change. However, I suspect that most of the interest probably comes from younger investors. Furthermore, this could indicate the beginning of a thrilling era for new investment offerings that ethical and sustainable investors can get excited about! Obviously, the underwriters significantly underestimated demand for Beyond Meat’s shares. When IPOs triple in price right after being launched it means that the issuer—the company—could have gotten far more for their shares. Though Beyond Meat is probably happy, they’re probably unhappy that they could’ve raised double or triple of what they got! So, Beyond Meat is an exciting short-term play but with so many competitors to its products over the medium to long-term, it's not obvious it will be a winner yet. ------------------------------------------------------------- For a good review of what Beyond Meat’s success means for two burger chains offering vegan burgers, see this post, titled, Tim Nash's sustainable stock showdown: battle of the burger chains, Corporate Knights, Canada. Admittedly this review is of the Canadian market, but it has bearing on the US and other markets too. Of course, Americans or anyone can invest in the Canadian stocks of the burger chains mentioned in that post. After a great review, Mr. Nash finalizes his recommendation as follows, and I quote, “A&W Food Services of Canada (which has no corporate connections to A&W’s American locations) is obviously a much smaller company than Restaurant Brands, but... with a higher dividend and a lower beta, A&W provides a nice mix of income and growth potential. The chain is the clear winner.” Close quote. ------------------------------------------------------------- Now, for ethical and sustainable investors interested in the animal-friendliness of their investments, read this article by Meredith Jones of MarketWatch, titled, Opinion: Here’s how to check the animal-friendliness of your investments. Quoting her, she says, “It’s easy to check which individual stocks are ‘cruelty-free,’ but you can’t yet invest in a vegan investment index." She offers several ways to checking which investments are free of animal-related products and testing. If you’re interested in finding more organizations that can help you in this endeavor, check-out my Investing for the Soul sites’ pages Environmental Organizations & Resources and Organizations Promoting Corporate Ethical, Social & Environmental Responsibility. ------------------------------------------------------------- Turning to a completely different aspect of investing, let’s talk about separately managed accounts at financial institutions compared to owning a portfolio of ETFs. Now separately managed accounts aren’t for everyone as they usually require a sizeable investment. However, if you meet the threshold they could be better for US investors than ETFs, says Johny Mair at ThinkAdvisor. Mr. Mair says in an article titled, ETF vs. SMA: Which Is Better for Sustainable Investing? That, and I quote, “SMAs are ideal for values-based investing as they allow investors to actively screen for certain product areas (e.g. oil, tobacco), or ‘bad actors’ that they deem antithetical to their values. They also allow for more specificity, e.g. designating a certain percentage of revenue from carbon emissions to be included in one’s portfolio. Furthermore, because SMA investors directly own the underlying securities, they can opt to play an active shareholder role, working to impact corporate behavior through voting proxies or shareholder resolutions." End quote. Of course, for those who might not have the means for an SMA—or even for those who do—check out my DIY Ethical-Sustainable Investing Pays Tutorial. There, in 1-hour you can get a handle on how to easily and very cheaply put together your own personal values-based profitable portfolio—nonmatter its size. ------------------------------------------------------------- In looking for companies we all want to know about their ESG ratings. However, you might not be aware of which ESG rating firms are good. Well, a new report reviews the various ESG rating services. Go to this recent post in IR Magazine, headlined, ESG Ratings – A look at the ESG ratings landscape. Register at the bottom of the page to download the PDF report. ------------------------------------------------------------- Ethical and sustainable investors are concerned with many issues, but one that they might not have thought of and which is still a global problem is modern slavery. Fiona Reynolds, head of the UN’s Principles of Responsible Investment (PRI), says that ‘“There are a lot of ESG conversations around climate change ... but it is interlinked with modern slavery,’ Reynolds told the Thomson Reuters Foundation in an interview. ‘We see many climate migrants and refugees who end up vulnerable and at risk of being trafficked,’ she added.” Close quote. Another quote from the article states, that, “The U.N. estimates that some 40 million people are trapped in modern slavery, from factory jobs to forced marriages.” End quote. Perhaps it’s something you might ask the companies you like who might have the potential for such involvement. The Reuters post is by Kieran Guilbert and titled, 'Look for the laggards' - investors told to target modern slavery. ------------------------------------------------------------- Lastly, another good comparative analysis by Tim Nash at Corporate Knights for ethical and sustainable investors has the title, Tim Nash’s sustainable stock showdown: Johnson & Johnson vs. Unilever. He says, and I quote,” With thousands of J&J cancer lawsuits pending, you might want to freshen up your portfolio with a cleaner company… J&J and Unilever are companies with very similar financial profiles, but, in my view, Unilever’s brand is thriving while Johnson and Johnson’s is deteriorating.” For decades, J&J has a been a favorite investment for ethical investors—but not so much anymore as Mr. Nash’s post makes clear. Yet, most ESG funds still have it in their holdings. Check your holdings and see. Perhaps you still like J&J for other reasons. However, at the very least, these lawsuits and the negative publicity surrounding them is proving costly to the firm’s bottom line and stock price. ------------------------------------------------------------- So, these are my top news stories for ethical and sustainable investors over the past two weeks. Again, to get all the links or to read the transcript of this podcast and sometimes get additional information too, please go to investingforthesoul.com/podcasts and look for this edition. And remember, I’m here to help you grow in your investment success—and investing in opportunities that reflect your personal values! Please don’t hesitate to contact me if you have any questions about the content of this podcast or anything else investment related. I can’t say I’ll have all the answers for you and some answers I can’t give due to licensing restrictions. But where I can help I will. Now, a big thank you for listening—and please click the share buttons to share this podcast with your friends and family. Come again! Bye for now!

US Midwest floods are prompting workers to migrate to safer ground, according to LinkedIn data. This report is by Sebastien Malo for the Thomson Reuters Foundation, with editing by Jason Fields. The report is provided by The Thomson Reuters Foundation, the charitable arm of Thomson Reuters, covers climate change, humanitarian news, women's and LGBT rights, human trafficking and property rights. news.trust.org/climate. For more information about climate refugees, a term which does not exist in international law, please visit the UNHCR.org website and read about Climate Change and Disaster Displacement. The focus? Families and communities forced to leave their homes in other nations and what is known as “Destination States.” For video reports, lease visit TheYearsProject.org and see trailers on Climate Refugees. New York Times columnist Thomas L. Friedman uncovers why people are leaving their homes. If you are concerned about population movement due to climate effects and other factors such as diminishing agriculture yields, these videos are a must-see. Music, "Nearing The End," by Neil Cross courtesy AudioBlocks.com. This podcast was produced by Climate Monitor Media, Inc.

Canada has accepted the asylum request of an 18-year-old Saudi Arabian woman, Rahaf Mohammed al-Qunun, after she successfully resisted - through a Twitter campaign - being deported from Thailand back to the conservative kingdom. She had fled an abusive family situation at home, and the UNHCR ruled she was a refugee. The case has drawn attention to the plight of women in Saudi Arabia, many of whom are forced to live under a guardianship system where male relatives make all significant decisions for women. Providing analysis from Beirut is Heba Kanso, the Middle East correspondent for the Thomson Reuters Foundation, who has been writing about the case.

This podcast is a brief interview I conducted with the chef Tom Hunt. Tom is not just an award-winning chef and restaurant owner, but also a food writer, sustainability consultant and campaigner, as well as author of the book The Natural Cook. Tom's response to the issue of food waste is to promote what he calls 'Root to Fruit Eating', which we touch upon briefly in the interview, and which entails – eating for pleasure, eating whole foods, and eating the best food you can. I met up with Tom at a recent event he was hosting and talking at here in London, in collaboration with the Thomson Reuters Foundation. It was a very last-minute interview, so I had almost no time to prepare, but it was a great opportunity to learn more about Tom's work and philosophy on the topic of food waste. You can find out more about Tom and his work at http://tomsfeast.com For more podcasts, articles and photos of people and organisations working to reduce the amount of edible food needlessly going to waste, visit the Food Is Wasted website - http://foodiswasted.com

There can be no doubt that Bronwen Percival has found her calling, and her passion for cheese is downright infectious. The reach of cheese is massive: historical, scientific, cultural, economical, agricultural. We talk about all these aspects of cheese, and more. Bronwen is the co-author of the book "Reinventing the Wheel: Milk, Microbes and the Fight for Real Cheese." She gives us her top tips for getting your hands on real cheese and how to nudge the industry in the right direction. I also talk with eco-chef Tom Hunt at the top of the episode, who presented at The Food Sustainability Media Award (presented by Thomson Reuters Foundation and Barilla Center for Food and Nutrition). He tells us about the three food paradoxes for which he created a menu around. I found these paradoxes, and the statistics around them, so fascinating I just had to share it with you all. Here's a link to the article I wrote about my experience as a cheesemonger at Neal's Yard Dairy - "9 Useful Things I Learned as a London Cheesemonger" - https://food52.com/blog/22298-tips-from-a-cheesemonger

In this episode Mark Egan speaks to Corinne Podger. Corinne is founder of the Mojo London and Mojo Sydney Meet-ups. She is a lecturer in mobile journalism at Macleay College in Melbourne. Most recently she was a senior digital journalism trainer at Fairfax Media in Sydney. She has also worked as a journalism trainer for BBC Media Action and Thomson Reuters Foundation. To contact mark just tweet @markeganvideo or go to http://www.purplebridgemedia.com   To contact Corinne Podger Tweet @corinne_podger

Larry Kramer, President of the Hewlett Foundation and Monique Villa, CEO of the Thomson Reuters Foundation, discuss how their organisations are addressing some of the world's most complex 'wicked' problems. And how to build organisations that can operate effectively in this difficult field.

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Belinda Goldsmith, editor in chief, Thomson Reuters Foundation, gives a talk for the Reuters Seminar Series.

Timothy Large, director of journalism and media training, Thomson Reuters Foundation gives a talk for the Reuters Seminar Series.