This consortium serves to create a more informed public and expanding the perspectives of our media houses by strengthening the civic and cultural life of communities we serve. The role of the SIMHA is to help member media houses drive innovation across their coverage areas. We do that by convening people around new ideas, and by building communities that encourage exploration and experimentation.
Partnering with professional journalists and media workers, our media houses bring youth perspectives on pressing issues of the day via syndication to major media outlets. Freedom of expression is a fundamental element of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and is widely seen as underpinning democratic freedoms such as the right to form political parties, share political ideas, query the actions of public officials, and so on. Media outlets are crucial to the exercise of freedom of expression because they provide the public platform through which the right is effectively exercised. The idea of media as a platform for democratic debate embraces a variety of overlapping functions. Media, in this context, refers to all those channels that carry news and public information.
