JUSTICE TRUTH TRANSPARENCY Justice in action: Legal Pro Bono Connection If you spend enough time at Thomson Reuters, you This year, our Legal Pro Bono Connection team logged will invariably hear the trope that, if this company nearly 3,200 legal pro bono hours and extended Pro were a law 昀椀rm, it would be the world’s largest. Bono Week to a full month-long series of volunteer In fact, we are not a law 昀椀rm, but we do employ activities to help close the access to justice gap for a large, talented group of attorneys committed those in need. A highlight of this year’s expanded to helping legal professionals navigate this push was a global series of four-hour pro bono sprints complicated world. That’s why when the last in partnership with the law 昀椀rm of Baker McKenzie, week of October arrives, we herald our global focused on research and analysis to create capacity- celebration of Pro Bono Week. The event is building tools for vulnerable populations who need to typically a week-long showcase of different understand the law. Our volunteers helped develop opportunities for our attorneys to volunteer know-your-rights guides for youth interacting with police Fighting misinformation one-tweet-at-a-time their expertise on issues ranging from assisting and resource information guides to help homeless survivors of domestic violence to media freedom. youth obtain ID and other vital documents and better “Falsehood 昀氀ies, and the truth comes limping after world’s largest multimedia news provider, Reuters understand their pregnancy and parenting rights. it.” The satirist Jonathan Swift made that keen is committed to combatting misinformation, and observation in 1710. In a 2018 study published in the has expanded its fact checking initiatives on new journal Science, researchers analyzed thousands platforms and in new countries. of stories shared on Twitter and found that a false Thomson Reuters also partnered with the National Offering legal pro bono support for Ukraine story reaches 1,500 people six times faster than a Association for Media Literacy Education for the The numerous ways in which Thomson Reuters true story. 7th annual Media Literacy Week, hosting an event employees leaped to action following the invasion of That fact should be particularly startling when focused on the essential role of media literacy in Ukraine is an inspiring reminder of the impact we can set against the backdrop of new research from education. High school students learned about have when we work together toward a common goal. the Reuters Institute, which found that almost debunking misinformation and disinformation That spirit of advocacy and empowerment was on two-thirds of Brazilians (64%) are now regularly circulating on social media. display when our legal pro bono team immediately getting their news from social networks. As the lent its hands to support PILnet, a global NGO creating country guidance for individuals 昀氀eeing Ukraine and groups that want to set up charities and nonpro昀椀ts to help Ukraine. Digital news trends in 2022 Pro bono volunteers provided vital local knowledge The Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, on access to housing, education, childcare, healthcare, funded in part by the Thomson Reuters mental health assistance, and other social services Foundation, publishes a yearly study on digital for refugees establishing themselves in the US, and news consumption. This year’s report reveals new research on the legal frameworks for registering a insights about digital news consumption based nonpro昀椀t in the US. The team has played a pivotal on a YouGov survey of over 93,000 online news role in supplying key information to support nonpro昀椀t consumers in 46 markets covering half of the organizations and help refugees 昀椀nd the safety world’s population. networks to meet their needs. 14