Global Voices Online

Like everyone else, we love being talked about. We're grateful to our friends in the mainstream media who've drawn attention to Global Voices project and to bloggers we work with or regularly point to.

This page serves as an archive of the media mentions we're aware of. If we've missed any, please let us know via the contact form.

May-June 2008 - Global Voices author Karel McIntosh writes for Communications World about online media in the Caribbean.

12 May 2008 - Community radio station KPFK in Los Angeles, broadcasts a Global Voices podcast about an Egyptian blogger.

11 May 2008 - La Nación newspaper in Argentina features the top bloggers of Argentina, including Global Voices author, Jorge Gobbi.

6 May 2008 - Global Voices' Burkina Faso Author, John Liebhardt is interviewed on BBC 5 Live's Pods & Blogs about the global food crisis.

29 April 2008 - Rising Voices blogging project Hiperbarrio is featured on local television in Medellín, Colombia.

22 April 2008 - The Arab Press Network interviews Global Voices Advocacy director, Sami Ben Gharbia, about blogging and censorship.

17 April 2008 - BBC News highlights Global Voices' coverage of China, Tibet and the Olympics.
5 April 2008 - Global Voices Malawi author Victor Kaonga writes for the Nyasa Times about bloggers in Malawi.

4 April 2008 - The Age in Australia, interviews Global Voices Japanese editor Chris Salzberg about internet regulation in Japan.

1 April 2008 - Global Voices co-founder Ethan Zuckerman is interviewed by BoingBoing TV about online video activism in Tunesia.

24 March 2008 - Radio Open Source interviews Ethan Zuckerman and Solana Larsen of Global Voices.

20 March 2008 - Global Voices Japanese editors are interviewed about their work in Asahi's online news portal Komimi (translation).

19 March 2008 - Global Voices Advocacy breaks the news of an imprisoned Moroccan Facebook user's release from prison, and New York Times blog, The Lede picks up the story.

18 March 2008 - The blog of Spanish newspaper La Vanguardia links to Global Voices China and Tibet coverage.

10 March 2008 - A Global Voices China post by John Kennedy is sourced for an article in the Financial Times about two Chinese activists under house arrest.

6 March 2008 - The Guardian News Blog draws on Global Voices to explain the political crisis between Ecuador, Venezuela, and Colombia.

5 March 2008 - Global Voices Advocacy is the source of a story on Al Jazeera about Arab bloggers defying arrest.

4 March 2008 - Wired Magazine's Epicenter blog reports on Ethan Zuckerman's speech on Web 2.0 censorship at a conference in San Diego.

2 March 2008 - Trinidadian newspaper the Guardian republished a Global Voices article by Janine Mendes-Franco about blogger and filmmaker, Frances-Ann Solomon.

27 February 2008 - International Herald Tribune interviews Global Voices Japanese editor, Chris Salzberg about possible internet censorship in Japan.

26 February 2008 - Deutsche Welle speak to Sami Ben Gharbia of Global Voices Advocacy about a Moroccan Facebook user imprisoned for impersonating a prince.

14 February 2008 - Canadian newspaper Globe & Mail interviewed Global Voices Kenyan authors about post-election blogging in Kenya.

13 February 2008 - Amira al Husaini is interviewed on BBC 5 Live's Pods & Blogs about the latest stories on Global Voices' Voices without Votes.

11 February 2008 - BBC Mundo profiles Rising Voices project Voces Bolivianas and interviews blog instructor Mario Durán.

8 February 2008 - Global Voices co-Managing editor Solana Larsen is interviewed about Voices without Votes on Denmarks Radio program, Harddisken.

6 February 2008 - Global Voices US election project Voices without Votes is introduced on BBC 5 Live's Pods and Blogs.

5 February 2008 - Newshour, on BBC Radio World Service interviews Amira Al-Hussaini about Global Voices US election project Voices without Votes.

24 January 2008 - Rising Voices project Voces Bolivianas is profiled on the radio program, “The World” (NPR/BBC).

21 January 2008 - BBC's Pods & Blogs interviews co-managing editor Solana Larsen about daily work at Global Voices.

16 January 2008 - The Japan Times Online publishes an article by Global Voices Japanese editor Chriz Salzberg about online censorship in Japan.

14 January 2008 - Global Voices Advocacy's “Access Denied Map” is the focus of an article in the Press Gazette.

13 January 2008 - Indian NDTV talkshow “We The People” interviews Global Voices India author, Kamla Bhatt, about blog regulation.

10 January 2008 - AllAfrica.com interviews Global Voices co-founder Ethan Zuckerman on the role of citizen media in Africa.

7 January 2008 - AFP uses Global Voices Advocacy “Access Denied Map” as a source for article about Moroccan blogosphere.

6 January 2008 - Global Voices video editor, Juliana Rincón, discusses citizen media in Colombia in Washington Post column, “The Spider”.

4 January 2008 - BBC Online republishes a post about post-election violence in Kenya from the blog of Global Voices editor, Juliana Rotich.

3 January 2008 - Global Voices Japanese editor Chris Salzberg is interviewed by The Guardian on plans for internet censorship in Japan.

1 January 2008 - The Washington Post speaks to Global Voices Advocacy director, Sami ben Gharbia, about arrested Saudi blogger Fouad al-Farhan.

24 December 2007 -NPR names the creation of Global Voices as a key moment of 2005 in their timeline of the Life of the Blog.

16 December 2007 - Global Voices Iraq author, Salam Adil is interviewed on BBC News about the withdrawal of British troops from Basra (no link).

12 December 2007 - BBC 5 Live interviews Global Voices Russian editor Veronica Kokhlova about the Duma elections in Russia.
9 December 2007 - openDemocracy.net publishes an account of a conference call between six Global Voices bloggers and Desmond Tutu, Mary Robinson, and Graca Machel on human rights.

9 December 2007 - Bolivian newspaper Los Tiempos reviews Global Voices/Rising Voices new blogging project in El Alto, Voces Bolivianas.

8 December 2007 - The blog of Spanish newspaper, El Mundo reviews the “Access Denied Map” of anti-censorship efforts on Global Voices Advocacy.

5 December 2007 - Danish media industry newsletter, Mediawatch.dk interviews Global Voice's co-managing editor, Solana Larsen, about how Global Voices works.

28 November - Global Voices' coverage of Egyptian blog and YouTube activist Wael Abbas is featured in the Guardian News Blog.
26 November 2007 - Global Voices Persian editor, Hamid Tehrani writes an article about Iranian Muslim bloggers in George Mason University's History News Network.

20 November 2007 - Malawi newspaper, Daily Times published an article about the Malawi blogosphere by Global Voices author Victor Kaonga. The piece was originally published at Nyasa Times.

20 November 2007 - Global Voices Iraq author Salam Adil is interviewed on BBC 5 Live about “Awakening” and Iraqi bloggers.
20 November 2007 - Folha de Sao Paulo highlighted a Global Voices post by Paula Góes on racism in Brazil in their media column (subscribers only).

19 November 2007 - VilaWeb.cat, an internet newspaper based in Barcelona, announces the launch of the “Access Denied Map” from Global Voices Advocacy.

18 November 2007 - Global Voices Honduras author, Aaron Ortiz, reports on Honduran blogs in Washington Post column, “The Spider”.

18 November 2007 - The Independent (UK) features Chinese activists with blogs, and interview Global Voices Chinese Language editor John Kennedy on their impact.

13 November 2007 - A report in the Asia Media News Daily about the third annual Chinese Bloggers Conference features Global Voices founder Rebecca MacKinnon, Chinese editor John Kennedy, and Board member Joi Ito.

10 November 2007 - Peruvian newspaper El Comercio, talks to Juan Arellano about the need for more Spanish-speaking volunteers to translate Global Voices posts.

25 September 2007 - Global Voices founder Rebecca MacKinnon comments on the outsourcing of censorship to private companies in China in this Christian Science Monitor feature.

September 2007 - Global Voices Eastern & Central Europe editor, Veronica Kohklova, is featured as Blogger of the Month in the Russian-language magazine .internet.ua.
17 July 2007 - Global Voices' Northeast Asia editor Oiwan Lam is interviewed on BBC Five Live about the court battle she faces over her posting of a Flickr photo.

17 July 2007 - The Guardian News Blog reports on a Global Voices post by John Kennedy about a rat plague in Guangzhou, China.

20 June 2007 - Global Voices Co-Managing Editor Solana Larsen writes an article in Danish business newspaper Børsen about her first week working for a 100% virtual organization.

6 June 2007 - Global Voices co-founder Rebecca MacKinnon is one of the “media pundits” featured in a video montage of excerpts from talks at the 14th World Editors Forum posted at journalism.co.uk

5 June 2007 - The Telegraph's (UK) Beijing correspondent features Global Voices' coverage of citizen media reports from a protest in Xiamen, China.

29 May 2007 - Iraq contributor Salam Adil is interviewed on BBC Five Live about the Iraqi blogosphere's reactions to the face-to-face talks between Iran and the US

23 April 2007 - East and Central Europe editor Veronica Khokhlova is interviewed on BBC Five Live about Boris Yeltsin's passing

April 2007 - Arab Media Daily: Article entitled “From Blog to street: The Bahraini public sphere in transition” mentions Middle East and North Africa editor/Arabic translator Amira Al Hussaini's blog

7 April 2007 - Keith Schneider praises the work of Global Voices on the Modeshift blog.

4 April 2007 - Roland Soong translates an article from Chinese publication Boxun mentioning Rebecca MacKinnon and Chinese translator John Kennedy

31 March 2007 - Le Monde 2: “Le porte-voix des blogueurs opprimés“, an article (fr) about Ethan Zuckerman and Global Voices by Claire Ulrich

18 March 2007 - Malawi newspaper the Sunday Times published an article titled “Malawians Turn to the Blogosphere” by Global Voices author Victor Kaonga.

March 2007 - Global Voices and its advocacy efforts are featured in an article in the March 2007 issue of i4d magazine.

March 2007 - Global Voices receives a glowing review in the The State of the News Media 2007 report

22 March 2007 - Caucasus and Central Asia editor Natham Hamm is interviewed by the blog Siberian Light

18 March 2007 - Nyasa Times: “Malawians turn to the blogosphere” by Global Voices' author Victor Kaonga. The article was also published in Malawi's Sunday Times.

7 March 2007 - KadmusArts: Ethan Zuckerman is interviewed on KadmusArts' podcast about Global Voices

28 February 2007 - openDemocracy: “Reporting Africa, blog by blog” by Becky Hogge

21 February 2007 - PBS MediaShift: “Digging Deeper: Reuters Looks to Africa and a Decentralized Future” by Mark Glaser

January 2007 - e! sharp magazine's January edition features Eastern and Central Europe editor Veronica Khoklova's blog in an article on the Top 10 European Blogs

24 January 2007 - Freezing Point interviews (zh) Chinese translator John Kennedy.

24 January 2007 - RadioFarda: RFE's Farsi service reports on the GV Summit 2006

30 December 2006 - Tehelka: “Global: now spelt Blogal” by Shivam Vij

29 December 2006 - Global Voices is mentioned in an article (zh) in Chinese publication Nanfang Daily

24 December 2006 - NDTV.com: “Blog site provides platform to express” by Amulya Gopalakrishnan

21 December 2006 - PodTech: “Global Voices on Internet Activism“. Ethan Zuckerman and co-Managing Editor Georgia Popplewell are interviewed by Kamla Bhatt.

21 December 2006 - Wired: “Bloggers Shrink the Planet” by Quinn Norton

20 September 2006 - PBS MediaShift: “Can Witness, Global Voices Make Human Rights Video Go Viral” by Mark Glaser

18 September 2006 - Berkman Center press release: Global Voices Online Awarded the Grand Prize for Innovations in Journalism from the Knight-Batten Foundation

18 September 2006 - AScribe: Global Voices Online wins $10,000 Knight-Batten Award

18 September 2006 - Editor and Publisher: 2006 Knight-Batten Award Winners Announced.

28 August 2006 - Israeli blogger Lisa Goldman, Lebanese blogger Mustapha Hamoui, and others quoted in the Washington Post story, Blogging Under The Radar: As War Raged, Lebanese and Israelis Found Common Ground

10 August, 2006 - Boston Globe: Collecting voices from everywhere: Harvard project looks at cultures through the eyes of citizen bloggers

July 2006 - Latin America editor/Spanish translator David Sasaki is featured (es) in the Chilean technology magazine Punto Net, in an article entitled “Un Blog de Harvard para el mundo”

31 May 2006 - Ethan Zuckerman appears on a Democracy Now television programme Citizen Journalism: A Look at How Blogging is Changing the Media Landscape from the Congo to Korea

16 May 2006 - Georgia Popplewell told BBC Radio 5 Live's Up All Night programme about the new GV Show, our new overview of global podcasts

27 April 2006 - Sokari Ekine appears on BBC World Service radio's Network Africa programme to talk about blogging in Africa

13 April 2006 - Reuters press release: Reuters forms alliance with Global Voices Online

14 February 2006 - website ISRAEL21c features the meeting of GVO's Hossein Derakhshan and Lisa Goldman: Iranian and Israeli break down the barriers

18 January 2006 - in the Lebanese newspaper Dar Al-Hayat the article Ayoon Wa Azan (They See What They Want to See) featured our author Farid Pouya

20 December 2005 - Ethan Zuckerman interviewed by BBC Focus on Africa Magazine about the growing numbers of Ethiopian and other African bloggers

15 December 2005 - featured in the article Redefining freelancing with entrepreneurial Web journalism in the Online Journalism Review

13 December 2005 - openDemocracy reports on Global voices: blogging the world, an account of the organisation and the Global Voices Summit

12 December 2005 - Britain's Guardian newspaper reports, in Found in translation, on the Global Voices Summit

October 2005 - featured in the article Will blogs change development thinking? on id21

24 September 2005 - Ethan Zuckerman interviewed for the International Herald Tribune article The End User: Hide and pique

22 September 2005 - featured in CBS News item So, You Want To Be A Cyber-Dissident?

16 September 2005 - featured in Spanish newspaper La Vanguardia article Freedom on the Web?

July 5, 2005 - Ethan Zuckerman interviewed on Minnesota Public Radio's “Future Tense”

June 30, 2005 - Rebecca MacKinnon, Hossein Derakshan and Jeff Ooi featured on National Public Radio/WBUR's “The Connection”.

June 17, 2005 - Rebecca MacKinnon interviewed in Columbia Journalism Review's “The Water Cooler”.

May 20, 2005 - Global Voices is a featured link in USA Today's Web Guide.

May 11, 2005 - Pilot #2 for Radio Open Source focuses on Global Voices, the project and the bloggers.

April 6, 2005 - Clark Boyd writes about Global Voices and bridge blogging for the BBC.

April 4, 2005 - A conversation between global bloggers at the Berkman Center is featured on BBC/WGBH's “The World”. A longer version is available on The World's technology podcast feed.