Thank you for supporting our journalism in 2020
2020 has been a year like no other in recent memory. Despite the significant challenges facing everyone around the world – including our own staff – we knew we needed to ramp up our production to provide reliable information about the pandemic while ensuring that other critical stories didn’t get overshadowed by it.
Our coverage of COVID-19 shone a light on the impact of the pandemic on crisis zones, and our longform immersive diary of a Yemeni doctor’s efforts to fight coronavirus in his community won the One World Media Coronavirus Reporting Award. Our investigations uncovered sexual abuse allegations against Ebola aid workers in Congo, a data breach the UN tried to keep under wraps, and allegations of racism, abuse, and misconduct at a Catholic NGO. We launched new reporting series: from She Said, in which women offer glimpses of their lives from crisis situations, to Beyond the Bang Bang, offering reporting from the frontl
| December 22, 2020
You make what we do possible, and we want to thank you for your continued investment with us. Without your loyalty and support, we would not be able to continuously provide our members with the valuable benefits they expect and actively develop our mission.
With no surprise, the past year has been quite busy for the World Association of News Publishers, its partners, and its network of news publishers and media tech companies. In talking to members and sharing their experience over the last few months, we’ve seen great examples of resilience, determination and creativity among news professionals and technology entrepreneurs in trying to meet the situation eye to eye. We hope you followed those reports from our member companies with our regular updates, our newsletters, and our virtual events.