"Global Journalist Re-Engagement Workshops"
Virtual Series for World Partnerships IVLP Alumni
April 16, 23 & 30, 2025
In late spring 2025, World Partnerships, Inc. and Al Tompkins Workshops created a new “Global Journalist Re-Engagement” series for IVLP alumni, their colleagues and their journalism students. These workshops were designed to support enhanced virtual training for our unique network of hundreds of leading journalists located in virtually every country around the world. Over the past 20 years, Tompkins has engaged with thousands of IVLP journalists and is World Partnerships’ most important and requested journalism resource and advisor.
Al Tompkins created and conducted three (3) workshops for World Partnerships alumni journalists. The workshops took place over three consecutive Wednesdays at a fixed time of 8 am to 10 am (April 16, 23 & 30, 2025). For the series, we reached out to over 750 journalists from every region of the world and received over 150 registrations total for the three workshops. All told, around 60 journalists participated in the workshops. The workshops were recorded and distributed to participants.
The target audience for this initiative is a unique network of World Partnerships journalist alumni who were originally invited to the US for IVLP professional exchange by US embassies in their countries. For most of these journalists, that professional exchange was a once-in-a-lifetime experience that broadened their perspective on the power of journalism, that exposed them to myriad practitioners and practices around the United States, and which provided new journalism techniques that could be adapted to their work at home. For many, it would be their first, and only, opportunity to gain formal journalism training.
This World Partnerships IVLP network began forming 25 years ago and now counts more than 3,500 journalists from almost every country in the world. Throughout that time, World Partnerships and Al Tompkins have worked together to bring advanced workshop training on state-of-the-art journalism. Most recently, that training has focused on detecting and reporting on disinformation and misinformation, global health issues reporting, and the rapid emergence of artificial intelligence (A-I) as a challenge and opportunity to traditional media. During the Covid-19 pandemic, training continued virtually. Virtual training continues to be used for journalists in conflict areas.
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