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December 2016

Environment

Left behind in a water crisis

Left behind in a water crisis: Introduction (Photo by Neha Thirani Bagri/GroundTruth) On the southwest coast of Bangladesh,...

Dec 29, 2016
The destroyed courtyard of Qaraqoosh's Al-Taheera church, the largest in Iraq and one of the biggest in the Middle East. ISIS transformed the grounds into a shooting range with mannequins from a nearby clothing shop. (Photo by Lauren Bohn/GroundTruth)
Faith

‘Where do we go from here?’ Deep wounds and dark memories for Christians in Iraq

QARAQOSH, Iraq – On Sunday, 17-year-old Ismael Al Kanon will celebrate his favorite holiday, Christmas, for the first...

Dec 23, 2016
Caitlin McNally takes photos on a GroundTruth Fellowship in Antarctica.
Announcements

Make Journalism Great Again: A message from GroundTruth’s Charles Sennott

Dear friends, At the end of a dramatic year, the political landscape has shifted revealing deep divisions and...

Dec 22, 2016
Glenn Scott, 60, a member of the Chippewa tribe and a Vietnam veteran, participates in a march of over 2,000 veterans from the Oceti Sakowin Camp to the police road block on Backwater Bridge on Monday, Dec. 5, 2016. Thousands of veterans deployed to Standing Rock to support the protest movement, offering to act as a human shield against police force. (Photo by Angus Mordant/GroundTruth)
A New Light

Documenting conflict, solidarity and snow at Standing Rock

In August, the seven bands of the Sioux gathered at the confluence of the Missouri and Cannonball rivers outside...

Dec 22, 2016
Young Poles stand silently while holding red flares and Polish flags and listen to speeches outside the National Stadium in Warsaw (Photo by Karolina Chorvath/GroundTruth)
Democracy

The fight over Poland’s right-wing policies

WARSAW – In a country beset by lawmakers’ efforts to limit freedom of expression, Marta Lempart calls herself...

Dec 21, 2016
President-elect Trump questioned the One China Policy earlier this week, stating that he's not sure why the U.S. has to honor it. (Gage Skidmore/Wikimedia Commons)
War and Peace

Here’s what Trump needs to know about the ‘One China’ policy

Trump might’ve made a foreign policy mistake that doesn’t reduce nuclear threats from North Korea or resolve issues...

Dec 16, 2016
People participate in a climate march in Marrakech during the U.N. climate conference, COP22. (Photo by David Tong/Flickr)
Season 3 - Living Proof |Episode 6

Trump and the next chapter on climate

Donald Trump's victory in the U.S. presidential election sent shockwaves around the world, but particularly at U.N. climate...

Dec 16, 2016
The GroundTruth Project has chosen health podcast fellows to report on the opioid epidemic. (Photo by Kurtis Kennington/Flickr User)
Fellowships

Meet our new health podcast fellows

The GroundTruth Project is pleased to announce the winners of a new fellowship program reporting on emergency healthcare...

Dec 15, 2016
The duPont-Columbia Award specifically recognizes the “The Girls’ School,” a filmmaking project led by GroundTruth Films director Beth Murphy, and “Razia’s Way,” a podcast episode produced by Nathan Tobey with GroundTruth founder and executive director Charles Sennott.
Fellowships

GroundTruth wins duPont Award for “Foreverstan”

The GroundTruth Project will receive its first Alfred I. duPont-Columbia Award, in recognition of our in-depth multimedia series,...

Dec 14, 2016
GroundTruth Fellow Aurora Almendral reported on the links between climate change and human trafficking in the Philippines. (Photo by Hannah Reyes Morales/GroundTruth)
Fellowships

GroundTruth joins Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation portfolio

The GroundTruth Project is pleased to announce that it has been accepted into the Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation’s...

Dec 14, 2016
Comet Ping Pong, a pizza joint in Washington, D.C., became entangled in a set of viral fake news stories that baselessly claimed the restaurant – and Hillary Clinton – was involved in a child abuse ring. There is no evidence of that. (Photo by Elizabeth Murphy/Wikimedia Commons)
Americas

It’s not just ‘Pizzagate.’ In a partisan media landscape, fake news is a real threat.

Welcome to the age of misinformation – or, as some are calling it, post-truth. In 2016, media organizations...

Dec 09, 2016
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