Profile

Michael Karam is The GroundTruth Project’s Communications Officer, responsible for external communications, branding and media engagement. He also advises the development team on its communications efforts and strategy, is the unofficial social chair and helps lead GroundTruth's internal Diversity, Equity and Inclusion framework. Previously working in communications at Trickle Up, an international poverty alleviation nonprofit partnered with the UN's refugee agency UNHCR, Michael was the refugee team’s storyteller, visiting Zambia and Ecuador to document the experiences of program participants. He has also worked as a translation project manager and often dabbles in translation and interpretation. He studied economics, international relations and math at the University of Pennsylvania, where his thesis focused on the multilingual media frameworks of Hezbollah and his independent study analyzed queer language in his home country of Lebanon. Michael is fluent in Arabic and French, knows some Spanish and is currently learning Farsi.

Think Globally, Report Locally

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“Local news media is the most disrupted sector of the media, the most urgently in need of assistance — and the sector with the greatest potential to form the bedrock for a new, stronger media ecosystem,” said Jacqui Park, head of network strategy and innovation at the International Press Institute (IPI) at the start of

Report for the World announces first-ever corps

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BOSTON — Report for the World announced today the selection of six journalists for its 2021-2022 reporting corps. Three corps members will join the staff at TheCable in Nigeria and three will join Scroll.in in India.  The announcement coincides with World Press Freedom Day, a date which celebrates the fundamental principles of press freedom: to

Q&A: Scroll.in’s Supriya Sharma

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Supriya Sharma is the executive editor of Scroll.in, a digital news outlet and our first partner newsroom in India. The interview has been edited for length and clarity. How did you end up at Scroll.in? I have been a journalist for 18 years now. I actually started as a reporter at NDTV where I ended

Q&A: TheCable’s Simon Kolawole

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Simon Kolawole is the founder and chief executive officer of TheCable, a digital newspaper and our first partner newsroom in Nigeria. The interview has been edited for length and clarity. Why did you start TheCable? I worked all my life as a newspaper journalist. I loved the smell of the newsprint and the editing process.