Caroline Vuillemin
General Director
The beginning of 2022, marked by a new war whose international consequences remain largely unknown, encourages us to work even harder towards our ambition: the existence of free media in fair, democratic and peaceful societies.
Tony Burgener
Chairman of the Board
Factual and accurate information focused on essential needs has become a tool that offers people not only a glimmer of hope in often desperate situations but also a compass to help regain a little humanity.
Voice, Information, Dignity
Hirondelle USA is a non-profit organization that advances the right to information through the practice of journalism. Through our partnership with Fondation Hirondelle we bring solutions to the opportunities and challenges of implementing large-scale media projects in the world’s most vulnerable and volatile regions.
We believe that creating public service media that evolve into effective media businesses that are viable and financially independent is the best guarantee that communities will have access to the information they need to lead healthy and productive lives as engaged citizens.
Highlights 2021
246 team members worldwide
Studio Kalangou, 1st African media certified by the Journalism Trust Initiative – JTI
Launch of the Burundi Project
Policy paper on « Our Response to Disinformation »
5 Studies on Media Impact
Key numbers
Media Operations
in 20 countries,
on 3 continents
Hours of video programs
Articles on the web
Users of our websites
Followers on Facebook and Twitter
Media supported
Million regular listeners of our 6 media
(Kantar survey 2020)
Where We Work
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News
Four Journalists, Four Stories, One Radio
Atem, Lucy, Gabriel and Shila are journalists working with Fondation Hirondelle in South Sudan. Here's what they think access to unbiased news has meant for them and the communities they report from.