Changing the Face of International Journalism | Cristi Hegranes | TEDxPasadenaWomen

Who should be telling the stories from remote locales around the globe? Reporter, founder and visionary Cristi Hegranes is transforming foreign correspondence to reflect the untold, more true stories of countries and cultures worldwide.


Cristi Hegranes is the Founder and Executive Director of Global Press Institute (GPI) and the Publisher and Executive Editor of Global Press Journal (GPJ). A 2013 Ashoka Fellow, she is an experienced social entrepreneur, a media innovation pioneer, and a renowned international journalism trainer. GPI, founded by Hegranes in 2006, is an award-winning, high-impact social venture that uses journalism as a development tool to educate, employ, and empower women in developing media markets to produce professional local news coverage that elevates global awareness and catalyzes social change. Cristi told the TEDxPasadenaWomen audience, as well as her Nepalese reporters listening to her talk online, about her journey from a Western correspondent to the founding of GPI.


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