2014 headquarters sydney australia area served worldwide key people lauren martin managing editor . jane nicholls ceo website theglobalmail.org type of site news advertising none available in english launched 6 february 2012 the global mail was a not for profit multimedia site for longform and project based journalism in the public interest operating from 2012 to 2014 . based in sydney australia the site launched in february 2012 with philanthropic funding from internet entrepreneur graeme wood 1 who committed funding for five years . in july 2013 the global mail became the first institutional member of the washington based international consortium of investigative journalists icij as part of an effort to bolster cross border investigative reporting . 2 the partnership involves funding a new global investigative journalism fellowship for an australian journalist and full time research desk for the consortium . the global mail was free to access and free of advertising . by contrast with other news sites it primarily focuses on investigative long form and data journalism and analysis 3 electing not to swim in the 24 7 news cycle . contents 1 data journalism 2 partnerships 3 awards 4 closure 5 references data journalism edit the global mail partnered with transparency groups on data led investigations . in february 2013 the global mail partnered with openaustralia.org to create a tool to search australia s hansard database . during the australian federal election the site produced a data tool allowing australian voters to see how all parties on the september federal election ballot would allocate their preferences ; the tool was shared on the guardian australia site . 4 partnering with detentionlogs.com.au and rightoknow.org.au it created a vehicle for crowd sourcing freedom of information requests for information through a data visualisation behind the wire . 5 partnerships edit the global mail frequently partnered with larger commercial media organisations to increase impact for its stories . the site has published with the guardian and the guardian australia radio national s background briefing the daily beast time sbs dateline and cnn international . awards edit the global mail s work was recognised with awards and nominations for data journalism 6 for its powerhouse blog of data and analysis from australia s parliament and photography 7 as well as for its writing including walkley award nominations for feature writing international journalism investigative journalism ; 8 walkley finalists in young journalist of the year categories in both 2012 9 and 2013 ; 10 and a unaa environment day awards category finalist in for media . 11 staff photographer ella rubeli won the 2013 walkley young journalist of the year award for camerawork . 12 the global mail published the photo that won the inaugural nikon walkley photo of the year 2013 and has finalists for two 2013 walkley awards ; 13 two of the three finalists for the walkley freelance journalist of the year award submitted work first published in the global mail . 14 jo chandler was the winner of the australian council for international development acfid media award 15 and a finalist in the inaugural lowy institute media award for her work for the global mail . 16 chandler s feature the last laughing death was included in the best australian science writing 2013 as were two other stories from the global mail . 17 the global mail also has won three kennedy awards for outstanding journalism and has three finalists in the human rights awards for print and online media for 2013 18 on 28 november 2013 photojournalist barat ali batoor was awarded two walkley awards for excellence in journalism for work published on the global mail . one was for photo of the year the other for best photographic essay of the year . closure edit in january 2014 wood told staff that he would cease funding the newspaper and they would need to seek alternative funding to remain in operation . 19 this didn t eventuate 20 and by the end of the next month the website had a notice at the top of the home page stating the global mail has ceased operations . 21 references edit http www.theage.com.au national what if publicinterest journalism had a white knight a media startup is born packed with pedigree 20111230 1pffl.html center for public integrity http www.journalism.co.uk news why the global mail has sharpened focus on data and investigations s2 a553205 http www.theguardian.com world interactive 2013 sep 03 senate race preference allocation every party http www.journalism.co.uk news why the global mail has sharpened focus on data and investigations s2 a553205 http www.guardian.co.uk news datablog 2013 apr 27 data journalism awards 2013 shortlist http kennedyawards.com.au 2012 kennedy awards winners http www.sbs.com.au news article 1711503 57th walkley award finalists http www.sbs.com.au news article 1711503 57th walkley award finalists http www.walkleys.com news 9711 http www.unaavictoria.org.au awards programs world environment day awards winners finalists http www.unaavictoria.org.au awards programs world environment day awards winners finalists http www.walkleys.com 2013finalists http www.walkleys.com news 9901 http www.acfid.asn.au media media releases jo chandler wins 2013 acfid media award http www.lowyinterpreter.org post 2013 09 27 john garnaut wins inaugural lowy institute media award.aspx http www.newsouthbooks.com.au books the best australian science writing 2013 http hrawards.humanrights.gov.au print and online media award sponsored deadly vibe group jackson sally 2014 01 30 . wotif founder graeme wood to close global mail news site the australian . the australian . meade amanda 2014 01 30 . global mail website to close less than two years after its launch . the guardian . http www.theglobalmail.org retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title the global mail & oldid 712667683 categories australian websitesinternet properties established in 2012internet properties disestablished in 20142014 disestablishments in australiamedia companies disestablished in 2014hidden categories use australian english from november 2014all wikipedia articles written in australian englishuse dmy dates from november 2014 navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 30 march 2016 at 13 04 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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