Recent meetings
| Date | Commissioner / Cabinet | Topic | File |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17 Jun 2019 | Andrea Almeida Cordero Cabinet member | Digital cooperation with Latin America and Africa | — |
| 17 Jun 2019 | Andrea Almeida Cordero Cabinet member | Digital cooperation with Latin America and Africa | SRC |
Mission & Goals
Internews works to ensure access to trusted, quality information that empowers people to have a voice in their future and to live healthy, secure, and rewarding lives. We envision a world where everyone can communicate freely with anyone, anywhere, and exchange the news and information they need to shape their communities and the world. For years and in more than 100 countries, we have worked with our local partners to build hundreds of sustainable organizations, strengthened the capacity of thousands of media professionals, human rights activists, and information entrepreneurs, and reached millions of people with quality, local information, improving lives and building lasting change. Our decentralized and entrepreneurial model gives us the local flexibility to find the best solutions and the nimbleness required to work in a rapidly changing, uncertain and complex world.
EU Legislative Interests
EU's Action Plan on Gender Equality and Women's Empowerment in External Relations 2020–2025 (GAP III) EU Action Plan on Democracy and Human Rights (2020-2024) Internews is committed to “supporting independent and pluralistic media, access to information and the fight against disinformation”, “promoting fundamental freedoms and strengthening civic and political space” and “protecting people, eliminating inequalities, discrimination and exclusion”. Internews works with many different partners to pursue its advocacy activities, namely: 1. The European Commission: Internews has established close working relationships with EEAS, DG NEAR, DG INTPA, DG ECHO and DG CNECT. 2. The European Delegations in most of the countries in which Internews operates. 3. The European Parliament 4. The European Centre for Press and Media Freedom, mostly through Internews representatives in Berlin. 5. The Council of Europe, mostly through its local offices in Eastern Europe 6. Ministries of Foreign Affairs of different Member States By pursuing all these activities, Internews actively strives to implement the “2030 Agenda”, with a specific focus to SDG number 5 Gender Equality, 10 Reduced Inequalities, 13 Climate Action (through its Environmental Journalism Network Project) and 16 Peace Justice and Strong Institutions, and in line with the EU Action Plan on Human Rights and Democracy 2020 -2024.
Communication Activities
Internews periodically releases policy papers based and reports built on the evidence gathered through our operations. As an example, please find - Voices for Planetary Health - Leveraging AI, Media, and Stakeholder Strengths for Effective Narratives to Advance Planetary Health https://internews.org/internews-launches-voices-for-planetary-health-package/ - Crisis in Journalism - The Impact of US Government Funding Cuts on Global Media https://internews.org/new-report-reveals-global-fallout-from-u-s-government-funding-cuts/ - Tracking FIMI online - Findings from Kyrgyzstan https://internews.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Exec-summary_CARAVAN-1.pdf - Sudanese Media Ecosystem https://internews.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/Internews-Sudan-media-mapping-2025-FINAL.pdf
Interests Represented
Does not represent commercial interests
Member Of
Internews Europe is a member of: - Bond - https://www.bond.org.uk/ - Communicating with Disaster Affected Communities Network (CDAC-N) - http://www.cdacnetwork.org/ - UN Global Compact - https://www.unglobalcompact.org/ - The Media Freedom Coalition Consultative Network (Consultative Network – Media Freedom Coalition) - The Global Forum for Media Development (GFMD) - https://gfmd.info/ - Forum on Information and Democracy - https://informationdemocracy.org/ - Global Network Initiative - https://globalnetworkinitiative.org/
Organisation Members
Internews Europe's members are: - Nine members of the Board of Trustees - https://internews.org/about/board/