To ensure that people in the UK have access to more and better coverage of global issues across a range of media.
We are a member based organisation providing a range of benefits to our members including regular briefings with journalists and editors; training in social media, photography, shooting with a smartphone; access to our latest research tracking changes in the media landscape; advocacy to ensure that international stories and issues remain central to the UK media agenda.
Our members report improved access to media decision makers as a result of attending our briefings with journalists and editors. And a better understanding of how to pitch stories has helped to increase media coverage for our members and the issues that concern them.
We have influenced the BBC Charter to include a stronger commitment to global coverage and helped to shape the Channel 4 remit with an obligation to feature information and views from around the world.
Our member organisations report more media coverage of their stories and issues as a direct result of the contacts made with journalists through IBT.
Our members have developed practical skills, across multiple teams, changing how they engage with the media and the impact they have. We provide regular training in social media, photography and shooting and editing with a smartphone.
IBT members use our reports to help them plan their media strategies.
An in-person event to debate media coverage of refugees and migration. We will hear from a range of speakers with different views on the quality of media coverage of these issues and we’ll be asking how the media could do a better job.
This is a joint event with ODI and will take place at their offices in Southwark from 10-11.30am on Thursday February 13th. It will be chaired by Yalda Hakim, who presents a nightly international news programme on Sky News.
Speakers:
Andrew Connelly, presenter, Fortress Europe podcast
Vivienne Francis, director, One World Media and The Refugee Journalism Project
Jessica Hagen-Zanker, head of migration hub, ODI
Nazek Ramadan, founder, Migrant Voice
Diane Taylor, correspondent, The Guardian
Emma Young, executive producer, Go Back to Where You Came From