We're thrilled to announce an alliance between Global Voices and global media company, Reuters. Reuters has been supporting Global Voices efforts since late last year, when they hosted our annual conference at their global headquarters at Canary Wharf in London.
Yesterday Reuters announced a major contribution to the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School, where Global Voices is based. This contribution has allowed us to hire our managing editor, Rachel Rawlins, to continue supporting our outstanding team of regional editors and to bring on translators, to provide better coverage of content in languages like Arabic and Russian. Support from Reuters will also allow us to do more outreach and training in parts of the world where there are currently few bloggers. Reuters' generosity allows us to expand the range and quality of information we make freely available to anyone who cares to use it.
We're especially excited about the relationship because we see a great opportunity to help Reuters - and the global media community as a whole - to understand blogging better and the impact of Citizen's Media on the world of journalism. We believe that the information, opinions and perspective that bloggers share complement conventional journalism and that bloggers and journalists can work together to give us a more accurate and representative picture of events and opinions around the world.
You can already see some of the fruits of our work together. Global Voices worked with Reuters on their recent Iraq Newsmakers event, where bloggers from the Middle East participated in a conference in New York via streamed video and IRC, asking journalists tough questions about whether media coverage of Iraq has been fair. In the near future, you'll see content by Global Voices editors and contributors appearing on Reuters websites, providing additional information and context to some Reuters newswire stories.
Global Voices Online is possible through the generosity of two groups: the editors and contributors to the site, and sponsors who make the site possible. We're grateful to everyone who has made Global Voices possible so far and we thank Reuters for making it possible for us to make this site even better.
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Congratulations! This is good news for news and for voices.
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[…] This is someting else I don’t get and never have from day one. I watched Global Voices grow from its inception and lots of people I respect have a lot of respect for Global Voices. It’s based at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School, for crying out loud. And they just got some big funding and support from Reuters. […]
This is an interesting development, certainly. Rumours are that the BBC is working on its own project similar to this.
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[…] That is not to say of course that there are no trivial blogs floating around, or trivial posts for that matter. Of course there are, and that is fine because blogging – may I remind you once again – is nothing more than a chronologically sorted personal diary entries. It could be as mundane as that, but I think as blogging became much more accepted now, even to the extent of having an ancient and trusted news agency like Reuters sourcing blogs, some are more serious than others, and it is up to the reader him or herself to make up their minds as to the credibility of the information presented, and how it is to be consumed by them. […]
[…] A Reuters estabeleceu uma parceria com o projecto Global Voices Online, uma iniciativa de citizen media sem fins lucrativos lanada pela Harvard Law School. […]
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[…] So this is the quid pro quo? Aside from featuring Reuters’ RSS feed on its site, that is. The “aggressive hand-raising” by shills in the audience should provide a glimpse of the extent to which GVO carries water for U.S. policy and Reuters’ business interests on this issue. […]
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[…] Reuters is a major funder of Global Voices and it is great that they are able to use our content in this way. It also demonstrates the increasing value placed by news organisations on the ability of authentic voices to provide perspective, background and context to the events they cover. Reuters puts it like this: The launch of Reuters Africa supports Reuters commitment to cover Africa in detail and from all angles, to give a wider sense of the issues and their contexts, and to explore the individual countries and cultures. Reuters Africa will target both those living on the continent, and anyone globally who follows African development, investment and news… […]
[…] 路透社为全球之声主要资助者，故十分高兴见到路透社如此运用其中报导，这也反映出新闻媒体愈来愈重视在地真实声音，以提供报导内容的观点、背景与脉络，路透社声明中指出： 启用这个新网站，路透社希望能以更详细、更全面的角度报导非洲事务，在议题与脉络提供更宽广的视野，也深入挖掘各国内部文化，“非洲路透社”网站不仅服务非洲居民，也服务全球关注非洲发展、投资与新闻的读者… 路透社持续将各界观点与评论加入新闻内容，故本站也将透过全球之声的国际部落客网络，加入各国部落格内容于网站之中。 […]
[…] award has special meaning for us not only because Reuters is one of the principal sponsors of our project, but also because Global Voices content is featured quite prominently on Reuters Africa’s […]
[…] ロイターが私たちのプロジェクトの主要スポンサーであるという点だけではなく、ロイター・アフリカの国別ページにはGlobal Voicesからのコンテンツが目立って特集されているという点からも、この受賞は私たちにとって特別な意味を持つ（ページ右上のBLOGセクションを参照）。今年はじめ、ロイターが私たちのRSSフィードを彼らの新プロジェクトに組み入れるというアイディアを持ちかけてきた時は、私たちはとても興奮した。レイチェル・ローリンズが2007年2月にこのアフリカサイトの立ち上げを発表する記事で書いていた様に、「これは、彼らの報道する事件へ観点、背景、そして内容を提供する真の声の力を報道機関がますます重視していることを示している。」 […]
[…] adapt to and use new technologies and new resources, often in unexpected ways, as for example the partnership with blog site Global Voices last […]
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