This opportunity is only for students of Schweizerische Alpine Mittelschule Davos. Spend a week immersed in journalism by getting an insider’s view of how a global media organisation works at the World Economic Forum. For the WEF Annual Meeting 2017, Pro Journo is bringing an on-site reporting team of four reporters from around the world, led by two editors with experiences from the New York Times, Associated Press, The Economist Group, and more. In partnership with Schweizerische Alpine Mittelschule Davos, we’re seeking an editorial intern to assist in our reporting and research work. In return, the intern will be mentored by our editors to gain professional writing and publishing experience–communications skills crucial in any career.
Call for Applications: World Economic Forum at Davos, Switzerland (January 2017)
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This January, Pro Journo is looking for a team of young reporters from a variety of disciplines to travel to Davos, Switzerland as part of a week-long reporting workshop at the World Economic Forum 2017.
T time: Rethinking Best Practice for Transgender Employees
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WHEN Caitlyn Jenner emerged from Bruce in a blaze of publicity, it marked the mainstreaming of transgender people, not just in America but around the world.
After all, the Kardashian family, into which then-Bruce had married, is a mainstream multi-million dollar global celebrity brand.
Gay Tourism: In or Out of Africa?
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THERE are few more romantic vacations than an African safari: pursuing the Big Five, eating barbecue in the savannah as the sun sets, and falling asleep to the sounds of the wild.
This can be a lot less romantic, of course, if tumbling into your tent together can earn you a life sentence in jail.
Vorsprung, at Last
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This article was published for The Economist Group. We have published an excerpt here. MUNICH, Germany – It’s been a busy year for Albert Kehrer. Besides running a consulting firm, he has been spending most of his time on a matter long neglected by German business: LGBT rights at work.
Can the Sharing Economy Share Data?
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Transport is a major source of carbon emissions, accounting for 14 percent of greenhouse gas emissions globally. With mass data collection already practiced by ride-sharing companies such as Uber and Lyft, this could be good news for environmentalists.
From Post to Report: Economy and The Environment
Read the summary report of our six-month long journalism program on Economics and the Environment. The report collects 21 articles and six podcasts as a showcase of our young reporters’ journalistic work, including a special coverage of the World Resources Forum 2015 in Davos, Switzerland. Our team of professional editors and seven aspiring young reporters were based in Germany, Netherlands, Russia, Sweden, U.K. and U.S.
Online Work Has the Potential to Drive Social Revolution and Gender Equality
Advances in technology will cause a loss of more than 7 million jobs in the world’s biggest economies within the next five years, according to a World Economic Forum (WEF) report released to coincide with its annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland. And because of their low participation in computer and engineering-related fields, women are expected to lose out the most.
Recruitment 2.0: How AI Will Change How You Get Hired
As automatization makes some jobs disappear, it’s also going to play a greater role in the hiring process. But with future jobs’ demands making the recruitment process harder, the machines may also have to become more human.
Chart: Will You be Back in Davos Next Year? An Analysis of Year-to-Year Attendance
How different are the Davos participants year-to-year? We’ve collected data on the annual WEF meetings back to 2009 and analyzed how many attendees have been repeats.
Mobile Apps Disruption Reaches Mental Health Care
So much of the talks surrounding tech disruption deals with industry sectors and change in behavioral patterns—but can disruption change how we take care of our mental health? Health care disruption is a big issue on the Davos agenda this year. The technologies underpinning the fourth industrial revolution have countless implications for the automatisation and improvement of global health care practices. From robotic arms performing surgery to 3D-printed prosthetic limbs, the human body is becoming increasingly high-tech. Not as highlighted on the official Davos agenda is a less tangible issue—mental health.
Searching for the Davos unicorns
Unicorns may be making headlines in tech and finance-focused publications, but they are little more than a footnote to the 2016 WEF’s list of participants.
DAVOS 2016
Chart: How GDP Affects Which Countries Have the Most People at Davos
See data visualizations showing how the size of a country’s presence at Davos compares with its population and GDP size, based on analysis of the WEF’s participants lists for the last 8 years. Explore the charts yourself to see where your country fits.
Chart: How Many Reporters at Davos are Women?
Of the accredited reporters at Davos, 39% are women; of the “media leaders”—the senior editorial staff and owners—the figure is 25%, a number that seems to confirm that women are more underrepresented as we climb up the editorial ranks.
Podcast: Anders Wijkman Discusses the Circular Economy
Pro Journo’s Stefan Hilsner and Nicole Pfefferle interview Anders Wijkman, vice-president of the Club of Rome and a senior advisor at the Stockholm Environmental Institute at the World Resources Forum in Davos, Switzerland. Wijkman, one of ‘circular economy’s’ leading promoters, discusses how it can change our societies where the environmental movement has gone wrong in its efforts to convince people to act to save the planet.