About
Global Media Forum (Global Media Forum Training Group) was founded in early 2004 as a consortium of top international reporters determined to raise the standards of journalism in the world through training, education and media counseling.
It is the brainchild of Peter Mackler, a veteran of the news business with extensive experience training journalists from Asia to the United States and consulting for groups such as NATO and the United Nations.
GMF offers training for journalists, media strategies and press-relations workshops for humanitarian organizations, government agencies and businesses, and high school and university courses as well as citizen reporters.
GMF is also the parent organization of Project Plato, an innovative international program that teaches journalism as a life skill to young people. The program, matching instruction in journalistic technique with work on an Internet news magazine, has been implemented in Washington, DC and Brisbane, Australia and hailed as a model for the developing world.
Another project of GMF is the Peter Mackler Award for courageous and ethical journalism, founded in 2008.
GMF was first created by Peter Mackler in 2004 and was transformed in a non-profit organization by his family when he passed away in June 2008.
GMF combines:
- A network of reporters with decades of experience covering the world’s top stories
- Comprehensive and tested curricula complete with instructional tools and techniques
- A service-oriented approach that adapts its services to the specific needs of clients and guarantees satisfaction.
GMF Director Peter Mackler makes a point during a 10-day journalism workshop for the Iranian Students. News Agency in Tehran, February 2004.