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December 15, 2009

Thomson Reuters Foundation launches Emergency Information Service

By Press Gazette

Units of journalists are to be deployed to major disaster zones to ‘seek out, collate and disseminate life-saving information to disaster-struck populations, filling a critical gap in the chain of crisis information’under a plan launched by the Thomson Reuters Foundation today.

The Emergency Information Service (EIC) plans to have journalists on the ground within hours of a catastrophe. The foundation is working with the Red Cross in the initiative to act as a delivery partner in disaster zones.

The foundation and the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) released a multimedia film ‘Surviving the Tsunami: Stories of Hope’to back the launch of EIS.

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