Internews is pleased to introduce Dr.
Laurie Zivetz as our new Director of Global Health Programs. Dr. Zivetz directs Internews' health journalism programs ensuring accurate and
effective reporting and programming on HIV/AIDS, malaria, avian flu, and
other critical health issues.
Internews and UNICEF Create Training Manual for Avian Influenza Reporting
Internews has produced a manual to ensure that health journalists, who are on the front line of public communication, have adequate tools to report the threat of avian influenza.
Internews' Health and Humanitarian Work Featured in New Book
Internews' work in health journalism and humanitarian media is featured in a new book published by McGraw-Hill called Understanding Global Health. The chapter, "Global Health Communications, Social Marketing, and Emerging Communication Technologies," covers Internews' projects training journalists how to report on HIV/AIDS and avian flu, and rebuilding the media after the Asian tsunami and the Pakistan earthquake.
AIDSLink - Telling the Story: Media and HIV/AIDS
Four articles by current and former Internews Local Voices staff appear in the Global Health Council’s July/August 2007 edition of AIDSLink.
In the article, By, For and About Positive People, Siv Cheng, Media Advisor for Internews Cambodia, tells her story about living life as an person infected with HIV.
Self-Portrait by Siv Cheng, Internews Health
Media Advisor in Cambodia. |
In Journalists and HIV Advocates - Searching for the Right Words, Mia Malan, Internews Senior Health Journalism Advisor, writes about pressure on journalists from AIDS activists to use terminology that helps lessen the stigma for people living with HIV/AIDS.
How Does HIV Media Coverage Rate?, by Jacqueline Gayle, former Internews Health Journalism Program Associate and now an independent consultant, summarizes a study released by Internews last year that presents the views of more than 130 PLHIV and 200 AIDS program managers globally about HIV/AIDS media coverage from more than 40 countries.
Ron MacInnis, former Internews Health Journalism Director and now Director of Policy and Programmes for the International AIDS Society, outlines what makes good health journalism in an article titled Journalists and Health Communicators - They are Not the Same.
September 20, 2007
Powerful Journalism for Better Public Health
Dear Friend,
Access to accurate health information saves lives.
Yet millions of people around the world can’t depend on their local radio station or newspaper to provide factual, easily understandable information and analysis. Many journalists don’t have the training or resources to cover health topics, and many editors do not see health issues as sufficiently newsworthy.
For more than five years, Internews has improved the frequency and quality of media reporting and programming on HIV/AIDS, malaria, avian flu, and other critical health issues around the world through its Local Voices health journalism program.
As always, we welcome your comments.
Sincerely,
Annette Makino
Senior Vice President for Communications and Corporate Affairs
Internews Network
Local Voices Convenes Global Staff in Nairobi
Thirty-five journalism trainers, sound technicians, media coordinators,
management staff and local partners of the Internews Local Voices programs
in Kenya, Nigeria, Ethiopia, India, Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia and the
United States met in Nairobi, Kenya last month to share training experiences
and best practices to improve public health news and information for local
audiences in the developing world. (More)
Cambodian Journalists Unravel Case of Sex Worker Who Insisted on Condom
Journalists
on an Internews field trip uncovered evidence that resulted in the
release of a 16-year old Cambodian sex worker. "Koan
Roeuy" was
jailed for allegedly stabbing a customer after he refused to wear a
condom. (More)
Internews China and Health Journalism
In August, at the request of United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) China, Internews China presented
on HIV/AIDS prevention and new media platforms to an audience of top
Chinese media representatives, including MTV China, and several United
Nations agencies, Chinese government agencies and NGOs. Actor Pu Cunxin,
who is China’s HIV/AIDS Goodwill Ambassador, also attended. (More)
In Vietnam, Media Leaders Vow to Reduce Stigma in HIV/AIDS Coverage
Meeting at an Internews Europe workshop for editors last month, over 40 media leaders from across Vietnam agreed to work together to reduce stigma and discrimination in HIV reporting. Also in Vietnam, Internews Europe conducted a basic media training on covering HIV/AIDS issues.
The power of pictures - a response to the HIV epidemic in Kenya
"I have learned how to make my stories powerful – letting the pictures speak," says Sylvia Chebet, a journalist for Kenya’s Citizen TV. Sylvia completed the first Internews Local Voices training in covering HIV/AIDS for television reporters at the end of May in Nairobi. "We also learned how to explain very complex issues in very simple terms," she says. (More)
Internews Honored for Spurring Kenyan Media Coverage of Blood Safety
To encourage accurate media coverage of blood safety issues, Internews' Local Voices project in Kenya held a roundtable that resulted in Kenyan journalists producing 10 news stories encouraging voluntary blood donations. Internews was honored for this work by Kenya's Ministry of Health. (More)
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