Global News partners with Journalists for Human Rights in Africa

TORONTO - Global News and Journalists for Human Rights (JHR) are joining forces on a partnership designed to improve journalism in Africa. Over the next year, Global News will deploy six of its journalists to JHR's offices across Africa for three weeks at a time. While there, they will assist JHR's team to train local journalists to report on human rights and governance issues more effectively. "We are honoured to be partnering with Journalists for Human Rights to create a program that will both further the cause of democracy and provide our journalists with an opportunity no other broadcast organization...