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After nearly 28 years, The Communication Initiative (The CI) Global is entering a new chapter. Following a period of transition, the global website has been transferred to the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits) in South Africa, where it will be administered by the Social and Behaviour Change Communication Division. Wits' commitment to social change and justice makes it a trusted steward for The CI's legacy and future.
 
Co-founder Victoria Martin is pleased to see this work continue under Wits' leadership. Victoria knows that co-founder Warren Feek (1953–2024) would have felt deep pride in The CI Global's Africa-led direction.
 
We honour the team and partners who sustained The CI for decades. Meanwhile, La Iniciativa de Comunicación (CILA) continues independently at cila.comminitcila.com and is linked with The CI Global site.
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PEARL (Partners with Educators to Advance Reporting and Leadership) World Youth News

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PEARL World Youth News is an online international news service managed by secondary school students from around the world. Students select the issues they want to report on, and then write, edit, and publish their articles on the web-based news service. School publications can reprint articles from PEARL World Youth News to add a global component to their news. This initiative is a partnership between iEARN (International Education and Resource Network) and the Daniel Pearl Foundation. It aims to take students beyond becoming media literate into becoming international correspondents for student publications.
Communication Strategies

This initiative places youth at the centre of news making through a process centred around an interactive website. Any secondary school student from around the world (aged between 14 and 19 years of age) may join the news service as a PEARL reporter after completing an online training and certification course which emphasises unbiased reporting and respect for a diversity of views. The course is available online and free of cost. After successfully completing the course and getting their first story published on this website, students receive a certificate and get the opportunity to meet PEARL reporters from different countries - working together to report stories on issues they care about. They work with mentors from Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism.

School publications may reprint articles from PEARL World Youth News service to add an international component to their papers, magazines, and websites. The articles are also available to mainstream publications on a subscription basis. Through a partnership with the PBS NewsHour and WorldFocus on Channel 13, PEARL stories are now appearing on these news broadcast websites.

Development Issues

Youth.

Key Points

Daniel Pearl, the Wall Street Journal reporter who was murdered by terrorists in Pakistan, used journalism and music to connect people of diverse backgrounds. His skills as a foreign correspondent and his commitment to promoting understanding have inspired this initiative.

iEARN (International Education and Resource Network) is a non-profit organisation working to empower teachers and young people at over 20,000 schools and youth organisations in more than 115 countries to work together online using the internet and other new communications technologies.

Partners

The Daniel Pearl Foundation, iEARN.

Sources

Posting from Ed Gragert to the Clarifying Communication for Social Change (CI) forum, February 5 2010; iEARN website, February 22 2010; and email from Anindita Dutta Roy to The Communication Initiative on February 25 2010.

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