Fojo International
A free society needs free media. We develop journalism around the world. Exchanging experiences. Increasing professionalism. Promoting freedom of expression.
Our focus is media development
Fojo is run by journalists with a passion for good journalism. Media development is our mandate, in Sweden and in the context of international development cooperation. We know that media has a bearing on poverty reduction and democracy in its broader sense and that free and independent journalism makes a difference.
Media changes and so does Fojo
New media and the media convergence rapidly change the media landscape and challenges journalism as we have known it for decades. Fojo changes along with the media landscape, holding on to our mandate: professional journalism.
This is Fojo
The Fojo Media Institute supports independent media and freedom of expression in Sweden and internationally. Fojo is the leading media development institute in Sweden and is a dialogue partner to the Swedish government on media development issues. Over the years, Fojo has trained 50 000 journalists from more than 90 countries.
Fojo is a non-profit academic institution within the Linnaeus University. We are independent and our agenda is fully open: Professional journalism, freedom of expression, democracy and human rights.
We prefer to work with a local or regional partner that has a long-term perspective and a clear ownership of the media development in the region/country as well as a broad approach on how to make real and lasting change.
Examples of current long-term partners for Fojo are the Birzeit University Media Institute in Palestine, the Media Resource and Training Centre in Jaffna (Sri Lanka), the Belarus Association of Journalists (BAJ) and the Vietnam Ministry of Culture and Information Press Dept and the Union of Journalists in Moscow.
