“It is a community for journalists to do their jobs and share the same space when they travel for story projects.” Journalism from the Global South It's always gratifying to see that it continues to bring opportunities for people.”Ībang said the network helps journalists forge partnerships which will help them in their careers. Journalists can meet colleagues, work on grants or attend conferences together. “It’s still a very popular place for people to find people to work on projects with, jobs and other opportunities,” Lee said. Hostwire has an interactive chatroom where journalists can interact with each other and share ideas on similar projects. Once approved, the journalist can explore resources, tips and opportunities for collaboration with colleagues through Hostwire, a crowdsourcing tool. Journalists register on the website with a story sample and wait for approval. “If you are travelling to a foreign country and you have never been there before, you will meet people from the network who will show you around and provide help where necessary.” “For a couple of years, Hostwriter was a network connecting journalists who want to travel to other countries and meet other journalists either to collaborate on a story together or to get some form of assistance,” said Christina Lee, head of publications at the platform.
But winning the Google Impact Challenge in 2018 set the stage for the nonprofit to expand and develop globally. With funding from the Robert Bosch Foundation, the European Cultural Foundation, the Otto Sprenger Foundation and Next Media Hamburg, Hostwriter executes its collaborative projects and connects journalists around the world. In Nigeria alone, around 220 journalists belong to Hostwriter and use the platform for resources and opportunities. More than 6,000 journalists from more than 155 countries around the world are connected for cross-border opportunities through the Hostwriter platform. “For example, freelancers often work in isolation but working with others helps them put together all the missing links and tell a compelling story.” A global platform “Collaboration helps to strengthen storytelling and this is not just between newsrooms but more importantly among journalists,” said Mercy Abang, Hostwriter’s CEO. The organisation provides resources and opportunities for networking and sharing ideas with colleagues.It also helps journalists raise the quality of stories produced. Our story was published in February 2019 and was awarded the Hostwriter Story Prize a few months later.īerlin-based Hostwriter has been helping journalists from around the world collaborate for story projects like this since 2013. Despite the ban on FGM by some African countries, these practices still go on in remote communities. The grant helped us set up reporting trips to tell an important African story around the health challenges facing women and girls across the continent. A few weeks earlier, Hostwriter, a global cross-border media organisation, awarded our team with the Hostwriter Pitch Prize, a €1000 grant given to a team of journalists with a story idea. In August 2018, I worked on a collaborative solutions-based story on Female Genital Mutilation in Kenya, Senegal and Nigeria along with my colleagues Annie Njanja and Mamadou Lamine Ba.
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