The International Center for Journalists has selected 18 organizations out of 206 applications in a competitive three-phase process that included interviews with the different media outlets. The training program will begin in May and will last seven months, focusing its objectives on solving challenges faced by media organizations, specifically in four areas: business strategy, operations and finance, technology and new media, and communications and marketing.
Elevate includes training sessions on business, innovation and entrepreneurship, delivered by Babson College, one of the most renowned entrepreneurship schools in the United States, and the Media Development Investment Fund.
These are the organizations that, in addition to Maldita.es, will participate in the ICFJ Elevate program:
- International Center for Investigative Reporting (Nigeria)
- OrderPaper Nigeria (Nigeria)
- Technext.ng (Nigeria)
- Agencia Lupa (Brazil)
- Agencia Mural de Jornalismo das Periferias (Brazil)
- Datasketch (Colombia)
- El Pitazo (Venezuela)
- Foco (Panama)
- Ocote (Guatemala)
- OC Media (Georgia)
- The Centrum Media (Pakistan)
- The Morning Context (Singapore)
- VoxEurop (France)
- Donia Al Watan (Palestine)
- E7kky (Egypt)
- Teyit (Turkey)
- Fiji Sun (Fiji)
The International Center for Journalists is a non-profit organization based in Washington D.C., United States, that supports a global network of journalists and media outlets around the world through training, mentorship, fellowships and financial support in areas such as investigative journalism and financial sustainability.