The Landscape of media and journalism is changing,
and Save the Children wants to help drive that change.
We define Media as follows: Media is the creative byproduct of a serious investigation.
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We are moving into an era of citizen journalism. An exciting time where motivated citizens can make a difference in the media landscape and as a result in the cultural landscape. Stories that were once censored in the mainstream media landscape are coming out through other venues. We aim to facilitate and create a venue for these changes at Save the Children and encourage a burgeoning and brilliant new crop of media producers.
It is our mission through
Save the Children Media Membership Project to model a new media that empowers people at every level.
Will you join us?
Media Ally (Citizen Journalist)
We understand that digital warriors and other autists and deep divers have stewarded and set the stage for the changes happening in our culture, particularly around Child Trafficking and Slavery. We recognize you all and appreciate the important role you play day in and out in this struggle.
You have held the line bravely for Children everywhere, and for that we salute you.
We want to give you a way to continue to stay at the forefront of this struggle against child trafficking and human slavery in a way that helps support your journalistic efforts and gives you opportunities to expand your skills and your readership by enabling you to submit articles for publishing on the site, and advertise articles you have written on other sites.
We will keep you informed about latest developments, events and opportunities through Press Releases directly so that you can stay abreast of our work for your creating, and you can have free access to our events and trainings.
At the end of the year, there will be awards given for the contributed content in a variety of categories.
Prizes will include: getting a free one year membership at the level of membership you are now, or a level up.
$25/year
Become a member or our Media Corps
Once you have become a Media Ally, you will have the opportunity to apply for one of the two memberships below:
Trusted Media Ally (Press Pass)
A step up from being a Media Ally, anyone can apply to become a Trusted Media Ally.
This is an inaugural program, and is specially priced this year to enable anyone who is serious to participate.
There is an application involved with becoming a Trusted Media Ally, particularly because this membership level includes a physical Press Pass that can be used to get into events and other assemblies where members of the Press are allowed in and report on the issues of Child Slavery and Human Trafficking.
We hope you will make good use of this press pass at events, conferences and assemblies, and we look forward to seeing the work you are able to produce.
Your press pass will have a QR code on it that will link to a page that shows your status (active, expired, revoked), and will be mailed to you once we accepted and we administer your membership.
In addition to the perks for Media Allies, you will have Access to special pre/post event sessions (whether physical or virtual), you have the opportunity to be listed on our site as a Trusted Media Ally, and you will be able to submit articles and links for publishing and promotion on the site.
At the end of the year, there will be awards given for the contributed content in a variety of categories.
Prizes will include: getting a free one year membership at the level of membership you are now, or a level up.
What we expect from you:
We will expect a minimum of 3 journalistic entries/year on the topic of in order to be able to renew your press pass the following year. These entries can include various types of media.
$100/year
Become a member or our Media Corps
Trusted Media Partner (Think Tank)
Join us and together we will fine tune this project model and inform the future of media. These are exciting times of unprecedented seismic shifts away from main stream media sources, and back towards honest and committed media by relatively smaller media venues and citizen journalists alike.
Trusted Media Partnership is designed for larger social media accounts, bloggers/vloggers and other media venues who want to help us drive our message home – both figuratively and literally.
You have a trusted track record of solid media output and a portfolio to demonstrate that. We want you to represent for the issues of child trafficking and human slavery at events, assemblies, conferences and as part of your investigative work.
As part of this partnership, in addition to the benefits listed for Trusted Media Allies, you will be given a large listing on our media page and a page of your own that showcases your work and with links to special articles and accounts.
You will also have the opportunity to participate in our Media Think Tank and have input into the stewardship of special strategies to optimize this media future in an inventive way that opens the door for all committed journalists. You will also have exclusive first access to the data, reports, and white papers generated by this collaboration.
Let’s begin understanding how to empower and spotlight Media based on merit and not based on nepotism or controlled by larger (nefarious) interests.
We look forward to capturing and driving this shift together.
$1000/year
The Bureau of International Labor Affairs maintains a list of goods and products likely produced by child labor or forced labor in violation of international standards. This list is primarily published to increase public awareness, and to encourage concerned consumers to make efforts to learn more about the supply chain and to use their purchasing power to send the message to corporations that child labor and forced labor are not condoned.