Formation | 1995 |
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Headquarters | Prague, Czech Republic |
Staff
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11-50[1] |
Website | www.project-syndicate.org |
Project Syndicate produces and delivers original, op-ed commentaries to a global audience. Featuring exclusive contributions by prominent political leaders, policymakers, scholars, business leaders, and civic activists from around the world, they provide news media and their readers analysis and insight, regardless of ability to pay. Project Syndicate's membership includes nearly 500 media outlets – more than half of which receive their commentaries for free or at subsidized rates – in more than 150 countries, amounting to a total circulation of nearly 70 million copies.[2]
Project Syndicate provides commentaries on a wide range of topics, from economics and politics to global health and development. They translate their columns from English into several languages, including Arabic, Chinese, Czech, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, and Russian, and their columns are published in numerous other languages as well.
Background
Project Syndicate began in the early 1990's as an initiative to assist newly independent media in post-communist Central and Eastern Europe, before quickly expanding to Western Europe, Africa, Asia, and the Americas. Their growth has been guided by a simple credo: All people – wherever they live, whatever their income, and whatever language they use – deserve equal access to a broad range of views by the world’s foremost leaders and thinkers on the issues, events, and forces shaping their lives.
Project Syndicate thus tries to ensure that news media in all countries, regardless of their financial and journalistic resources – and often in challenging political environments – can offer readers original analysis by the world’s leading thinkers in a variety of fields.
Logistics
News organizations in developed countries provide financial contributions for the rights to Project Syndicate commentaries, which enables them to offer these rights for free, or at subsidized rates, to newspapers and other media in the developing world. No publication is turned down solely on the basis of its inability to pay, so Project Syndicate has strong partnerships with some of the most respected news media in every country in which it operates.
Notable contributors
Regular contributors include:
J. Bradford DeLong, Mohamed El-Erian, Joschka Fischer, Richard Haass, Ricardo Hausmann, Bernard-Henri Levy, Anatole Kaletsky, Nina Khrushcheva, Dambisa Moyo, Joseph Nye, Raghuram Rajan, Dani Rodrik, Kenneth Rogoff, Nouriel Roubini, Jeffrey Sachs, Robert Shiller, Peter Singer, Robert Skidelsky, Anne-Marie Slaughter, Michael Spence, Joseph Stiglitz, Yanis Varoufakis and more.
Other contributors include:
Shinzo Abe, Kofi Annan, Angus Deaton, Bill Gates, Hassan Rouhani, Eric Schmidt, George Soros and more.
References
- ^ "Project Syndicate". Retrieved April 21, 2011.
- ^ "About us - Project Syndicate". www.project-syndicate.org. Retrieved 2016-04-04.
External links
- ^ "Project Syndicate Op-Ed Authors and Columnists". www.project-syndicate.org. Retrieved 2016-04-04.