By Patricia Lanzagarita
THE media and journalism industry honored on Thursday (28 Sept 2023) the annual celebration of World News Day, a global campaign to amplify the power, significance, and impacts of fact-based journalism.
The yearly event started way back in 2018 with the goal of raising awareness about the important role of journalists and media outfits in people’s everyday lives by providing credible and factual news.
David Walmsley, the founder of the World News Day Organization, said that he established this event to change the relationship between the news industry and its audience.
“Journalists are considered in too many parts of the world to be troublemakers. I want audience members to meet their reporters and hear the effort they put in to getting the story right,” Walmsley stated.
World News Day was organized by the WAN-IFRA’s World Editors Forum and Canadian Journalism Foundation, and supported by Google News Initiative.
“World News Day is for the audience, not the journalism industry. It exists to celebrate strong journalism and to push for more of it.”
Source: World News Day Organization
https://worldnewsday.org.
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