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Download Quarterly Report #6, February 2018 – Watchdog for The Global Challenges Foundation Global Challenges Quarterly Report Watchdog for the future: the journalist as pioneer of a new global narrative GLOBAL CHALLENGES QUARTERLY REPORT WATCHDOG FOR THE FUTURE: THE JOURNALIST AS PIONEER OF A NEW GLOBAL NARRATIVE Quarterly report team Project leader: Carin Ism Editor in chief: Julien Leyre Researcher and project coordinator: Waldemar Ingdahl Art director: Elinor Hägg Graphic design: Erik Johansson Contributors Netta Ahituv Katie G. Nelson Journalist, Haaretz Newspaper. Journalist and photographer. Kristine Angeli Sabillo Dina Samak Journalist. Journalist, Al Ahram. Peter Berglez Amanda Siddharta Professor, Media and Communication Journalist. Studies, Jönköping University. Lynn Walsh Janine di Giovanni Journalist. Edward Murrow Senior Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations. Amy Wilentz Writer and professor, Literary Journalism Katharina Kloss program, University of California. Editor in chief, Cafébabel. Cristina Manzano Director, esglobal. 2 Global Challenges Quarterly Report 2018 THE GLOBAL CHALLENGES FOUNDATION works to incite deeper under- standing of the global risks that threaten humanity and catalyse ideas to tackle them. Rooted in a scientific analysis of risk, the Foundation brings together the brightest minds from academia, politics, business and civil society to forge transformative approaches to secure a better future for all. The views expressed in this report are those of the authors. Their statements are not necessarily endorsed by the affiliated organisations or the Global Challenges Foundation. Global Challenges Quarterly Report 2018 3 4 Global Challenges Quarterly Report 2018 Contents Preface 7 Executive Summary 8 Part 1. Watchdog for the future 12 1.1 A front row seat to history – Lynn Walsh 15 1.2 The journalist and the UN – Janine di Giovanni 21 1.3 Keeping powers in check – Amanda Siddharta 27 1.4 Reshaping climate reporting: four challenges and one sign of hope – Kristine Angeli Sabillo 33 Part 2. The journalist as pioneer of a new global narrative 38 2.1 Champions for change: building global narratives in a fragmented media landscape – Cristina Manzano 41 2.2 From fragments to pattern: weaving new global narratives – Amy Wilentz 47 2.3 Time for the rise of global journalism – Peter Berglez 53 2.4 Beyond Babel: participatory platforms and cross-border narratives – Katharina Kloss 59 2.5 The power of a single frame: photojournalism and global consciousness – Katie G. Nelson 65 2.6 How to overcome public indifference?– Netta Ahituv 71 2.7 Relatable heroes – Dina Samak 77 Endnotes 82 Continuing the conversation 83 Global Challenges Quarterly Report 2018 5 MATS ANDERSSON Vice-chairman, Global Challenges Foundation, Former CEO, Fourth Swedish National Pension Fund, co-founder Portfolio Decarbonization Coalition 6 Global Challenges Quarterly Report 2018 PREFACE Preface lobal risks require global solutions. For global institutions to gain legitimacy, new Global solutions require global global narratives that bind us together are an essential institutions. This is the premise for element. The nation state has only been around as a the work of the Global Challenges dominant form of social organization for about 300 Foundation. In line with this premise, years, yet the powerful narrative around nations has Gin 2017, the Foundation launched the New Shape Prize made innumerable individuals willing to sacrifice Competition to develop a blueprint for new global everything, including their life, for that idea of the governance models that might help us address our nation. What alternative stories of similar binding force most pressing challenges. The competition received can bring us together and inspire collective action on more than 2700 entries from 122 countries. The a global scale at this crucial moment in history, when winners, selected by a jury of international experts, will action on ecological issues alone in the next 50 years be announced to the world on May 29 at the New Shape will determine the course of the next 10,000? Forum in Stockholm. To address this question, in this report, we turned to Global institutions, however, cannot be created, journalists, the voice of the people and storytellers of updated, or indeed adopted, without global support. our times. We asked them to share their reality – how Therefore, the work of the Global Challenges their work can ensure that powers are accountable Foundation extends beyond the New Shape for their actions and lack thereof beyond the short- competition to a range of activities that engage other term, how the dispersed elements of an increasingly sectors of society whose support is crucial to new connected global story can come together, and how global governance models. These include the present collective action can be catalyzed on a global scale. quarterly report series, and an Educators’ Challenge Journalists, indeed, are the pioneers of our new global offering ten prizes of 5000$ to develop effective narrative, and watchdogs of our collective future. engagement strategies on the topic of global risks and global institutional reform. Everyone has a role to play in this process. Business leaders, by choosing how companies are managed and what KPIs they use to measure success. Public administrators at all levels of government, by supporting the development of more effective and better aligned policy frameworks. Tech innovators, featured in our previous Quarterly Report, by developing the technological infrastructure that can support new forms of global governance. But an Mats Andersson even more crucial role may be that of developing the Vice-chairman, Global Challenges Foundation, new narratives that will cement a sense of collective Former CEO, Fourth Swedish National Pension Fund, belonging beyond the borders of nations. co-founder Portfolio Decarbonization Coalition Global Challenges Quarterly Report 2018 7 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Executive summary Julien Leyre, Global Challenges Foundation. he Global Challenges and the fake, how can journalists Foundation Quarterly ensure that this right is met? When Reports examine how decisions made on one point of the the world is currently planet often affect people on the jeopardized by global other side, it is vital that journalists Trisks of catastrophic magnitude, can maintain first hand access to and what solutions might directly leaders, no matter where they are. or indirectly reduce, mitigate or – at Without this, we would be without best – eliminate those risks. In this perspective, without context, and in issue, we focus more particularly on some cases, without the truth. the stories that drive global action and the writers of those stories. What As the growing threats of war, we need to see at this point in global weapons of mass destruction and history is global action. This requires climate change increase the need global narratives. Therefore, we give for a form of global government center stage to voices from the global that can protect vulnerable media to share perspectives on their populations, what is the role of work. journalists when reporting on our foremost international institution, The first section of the report, the United Nations? Janine di ‘watchdog for the future’, offers four Giovanni, Edward Murrow Senior pieces that explore the role of the Fellow with the Council on Foreign journalist in guiding public action Affairs in New York, reflects on and holding institutions to account. this essential question in ‘The In the opening piece, Emmy award- journalist and the UN’. In spite winning journalist Lynn Walsh of brilliant work from the new advocates the need for journalists Secretary General Guterres, the to occupy ‘A front row to history’. UN still faces numerous challenges The public has a right to know what and limitations, particularly the is happening around them. But in need to placate the current United a world that is increasingly global, States administration. Journalists where facts are often unclear and have a role to play in this context, technological developments blur by working with the organization the distinction between the real to continuously increase its 8 Global Challenges Quarterly Report 2018 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY transparency, and meet the request related issues, there is a lack of of our times for truth telling. journalists trained on the issue, funding for climate reporting is If anyone has the power to solve inadequate, and multi-sensory global crises, it would seem to stories accessible to non-expert be our officially elected leaders. audiences are difficult to produce. However, the leader of a nation However, global collaboration only holds responsibility to their around climate reporting has national constituencies. This is the already given birth to remarkable premise for Indonesian journalist projects, and offers great hope for Amanda Siddharta’s contribution, the future. ‘Keeping powers in check’. How can we incentivize leaders to go beyond The second half of the report the narrow terms of their mandate focuses on the need to develop and address the global challenges new types of stories that effectively that will affect their constituents in connect events happening around the future? Journalists have a crucial the planet and make sense of our role to play in underlining not only new shared condition. Media power crime and corruption, but also abuse today suffers from the simultaneous of power in the form of neglect. They shockwaves of changing can alert the public when leaders are business models, fake news, and not serving
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