Syria Direct

The website is bilingual so all articles are translated into English/Arabic, fact-checked and edited, then published.

In the past, the training program has received funding from the US Embassy Amman's Public Affairs Section, the Syria-Iraq office of the Konrad Adenauer Stiftung organization, and the Canadian Embassy in Amman.

The trainees' stories have been published in USA Today, CNN.com, Radio Free Europe, and international new organizations like Le Monde and The Toronto Globe and Mail.

[8] Syria Direct had, as of September 2016, trained 70 journalists, some of whom have since started their own news organizations.

[2] By April 2018, this number had risen to 150 journalists from 10 cohorts, made possible by a grant from the US State Department.