Wermus, Daniel

Daniel Wermus was born in Geneva in 1951 and is an international journalist, co-founder and director of Media21 Global Journalism Network Geneva. Media21 has conducted 45 workshops and field trips on global issues (climate change, human rights, peace, humanitarian aid, health, food, water, corporate social responsibility, etc.) bringing together 500 journalists from five continents with 700 international actors representing the UN, NGOs, business and universities. Wermus launched the Human Rights Tribune online in 2006. Wermus also the founded InfoSud in 1988, a non-profit press agency. InfoSud, a multi-cultural network of journalists, has published 16,000 articles on North-South issues. Wermus graduated from the Graduate Institute of International Studies in Geneva and has worked with the Tribune de Genève (1976-88) and Swiss television (TSR/1978-84). He was a co-organizer of the North-South Media Forum in Geneva (1989-2003), and other forums. Numerous reporting trips to Latin America, Africa and Asia about social, environmental, development and other global issues. Wermus has written several books on new economic order, science and society, indigenous people and “modern” world. He is now specialized in the link between media and global changes and currently teaches humanitarian journalism at the University of Geneva.