Claire Thompson. freelance PR Consultant, Waves PR
I asked Sylwia Presley, a Twestival, about her work with Global Voices (http://globalvoicesonline.org/) In her own words….
Sylwia Presley
What is Global Voices?
Global Voices is a community of citizen journalists, bloggers and other professionals from all around the world who aggregate opinions on current events from blogs and citizen media worldwide. The main website, located here, is where Global Voices authors track the use of online media in their countries and write reports of online reactions to events in their region. These stories are written in English.
Global Voices Lingua has a separate platform, where we translate posts written in English into more than 18 other languages. This provides a bridge between communities who do not speak the same languages. Basically a blogger in China can write something in their own blog, which we translate into English on Global Voices and I later on translate to Polish on Global Voices in Polish. This process allows us to deliver information very often overseen by mainstream media.
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Waves PR: June 29, 2009
New information references available on ipadio
With regard to reporting from the world’s trouble spots, publicly available information from well regarded sources has been collated onto a reference page on ipadio, and the international numbers currently available for local rate and freephone calls have been published on the site.
A statement from Dr. Mark K. Smith, CEO, ipadio:
“Citizen journalism, whether written or broadcast, is a valuable addition to our rich media landscape and the cornerstone of the ipadio service. We should not, however, encourage anyone who has not carefully considered the consequences to report from trouble spots. Professional journalists on the ground, and international journalists with large organisations behind them, will be aware of the risks and will know how to steps to protect themselves and their sources. Whilst we are delighted to put ipadio at the service of anyone whose voice should be heard, we should not allow our thirst for news to let people put themselves at risk without fully understanding the potential consequences, particularly if they are breaking the law of their own land.”
Waves PR, June 29, 2009:
Ipadio: notes for ‘citizen journalists’:
Please consider this before using ipadio to broadcast your news from a trouble zone. In the same way as authorities may monitor blogging activity on the Internet:
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Claire Thompson, Waves PR: June 25, 2009
I like many, was moved to turn my Twitter icon green last week to stand shoulder to shoulder with the people protesting peacefully in Iran. Since then, things have taken a more sinister turn.
In this phlog I consider my own experiences in Central America, and whether or not citizen journalism, however useful it may be for us as news gatherers, is a good thing in a repressed zones.
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