News and information about Internews Network's projects supporting access to information worldwide. http://www.internews.org/rss/prs.xml http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Wed, 23 Dec 2009 14:54:04 -0800 Wed, 23 Dec 2009 14:54:00 -0800 FeedForAll v2.0 (2.0.1.5) http://www.feedforall.com "Thanks to Internews training, I understood that I have the power to transform my environment if I tell the truth in a balanced manner and with appropriate language," said radio journalist Rose Okindah. http://www.internews.org/prs/2009/20091223_kenya.shtm Peace reporting 8DF4A6E6-2FCD-406D-88AE-F203ED328E27 Wed, 23 Dec 2009 14:52:51 -0800 Nobel Peace Prize winner Dr. Rajendra K. Pachauri and Internews celebrated the best in climate change reporting at the Internews Earth Journalism Awards in Copenhagen. http://www.internews.org/prs/2009/20091214_eja.shtm Environmental journalism 073433EC-50C6-41AE-8075-D605F6F715CE Mon, 14 Dec 2009 14:52:13 -0800 Against a backdrop of declining political rights and civil liberties worldwide, Internews Network has launched an ambitious global program to spur media coverage of human rights and reform of media and Internet law and policy. http://www.internews.org/prs/2009/20091210_humanrights.shtm Human Rights 87AE1C9A-05E6-4693-9561-3B23850652DA Thu, 10 Dec 2009 14:51:42 -0800 With the goal of expanding and improving media coverage of climate change, Internews and The Poynter Institute’s News University have launched a free online journalism course to give reporters and citizen journalists a firm grounding in the science and policy underlying climate change. http://www.internews.org/bulletin/monthlynews/2009_12_3_NewsU.html Environmental Reporting B4C47A7B-5AAE-4628-AA38-748A574DAAD4 Thu, 3 Dec 2009 13:48:03 -0800 On World AIDS Day, December 1, we honor those journalists around the globe who work year-round to shed light into the dark corners of the HIV pandemic. http://www.internews.org/bulletin/monthlynews/2009_11_30_AIDSDay.html Health Journalism 621FE1A2-5371-45B9-816D-E1D471E553D3 Tue, 1 Dec 2009 13:47:08 -0800 Internews announced the fifteen winners of the Earth Journalism Awards today, and opened the online public voting to find the winner of a sixteenth prize. The finalists were selected out of some 900 journalists, bloggers and young creatives from 148 countries who registered to send in their best climate change reports from 2009 in the lead up to the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen next month. http://www.internews.org/bulletin/monthlynews/2009_11_13_eja.html Environmental Reporting DE68D215-C04B-4D92-B37D-39C2660C3A6B Thu, 12 Nov 2009 13:46:05 -0800 With the goal of expanding and improving media coverage of climate change, Internews and The Poynter Institute’s News University have launched a free online journalism course to give reporters and citizen journalists a firm grounding in the science and policy underlying climate change. http://www.internews.org/prs/2009/20091203_NewsU.shtm Environmental Reporting 596D7009-9259-470F-ADEF-500EDC041C0C Thu, 3 Dec 2009 13:44:43 -0800 Internews Network helped develop a World AIDS Day SMS that will be sent to more than 2.5 million people in Ethiopia from the President of Ethiopia, Girma Woldegiorgis. http://www.internews.org/prs/2009/20091130_ethiopia.shtm Health Journalism 5B4E66D7-273D-471D-9BA5-ED3332F7F0F2 Mon, 30 Nov 2009 13:44:03 -0800 "When I was informed I was HIV-positive, I shared the news with my husband. He warned me against disclosing my status to anyone. I did not dare defy his orders," says Tatu Saidi, a 14-year-old widow from the Coast Province of Kenya. http://www.internews.org/prs/2009/20091130_kenya.shtm Health Journalism 107FB4A2-71C8-4181-B17A-B2449CC31066 Tue, 24 Nov 2009 12:28:55 -0800 The escalating conflicts in Afghanistan and Pakistan underline the urgent need for people to have access to reliable and trusted sources of news and information in their own language. Internews has been working in this region since 2002 to empower local media to get information to those who need it most. http://www.internews.org/bulletin/monthlynews/2009_11_04_afpak.html War and Peace Reporting F2834733-824E-4404-B0BF-A5A23C5EF500 Wed, 4 Nov 2009 15:05:04 -0800 "We can't mask over the terrible realities of war, but it's also our moral responsibility to give people hope. I call it the journalism of hope. And I think it's very important." -Masood Farivar, Manager of Salam Watandar (Hello Countryman), Internews' radio programming service for Afghanistan, in an interview with the Los Angeles Times http://www.internews.org/articles/2009/20091106_latimes_afghan.shtm Afghanistan 468202E3-6860-4DD0-BC31-A8E84CB51333 Fri, 6 Nov 2009 15:03:38 -0800 "I think that the more freely information flows, the stronger the society becomes, because then citizens of countries around the world can hold their own governments accountable. They can begin to think for themselves. That generates new ideas. It encourages creativity." -President Barack Obama, speaking at a town hall in Shanghai, China on November 15 http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/remarks-president-barack-obama-town-hall-meeting-with-future-chinese-leaders Barack Obama 68139938-8713-4BC7-AFBD-C1FC3CDB6D37 Sun, 15 Nov 2009 15:02:12 -0800 In Kauda, a remote town in the heart of the Nuba Mountains in South Kordofan, southern Sudan, many children don’t attend school at all. If they do have access to a teacher, the lessons are often held under trees and the teachers lack even basic resources such as desks, books and pens. http://www.internews.org/prs/2009/20091112_sudan.shtm Africa 577A219F-150F-48E2-8DC3-25C02096C5D5 Thu, 12 Nov 2009 15:01:23 -0800 When Internews helped establish a community radio station in the heart of eastern Amman in May of 2008, the main goal was to create a media outlet that tackled important social issues, targeting as many people as possible in that part of the capital. http://www.internews.org/prs/2009/20091110_jordan.shtm Middle East AFDFE908-C3FB-4928-9DEF-D5BD95FAFF8A Thu, 5 Nov 2009 15:00:13 -0800 Internews, the international NGO that empowers local media worldwide, announced the fifteen winners of the Earth Journalism Awards today, and opened the online public voting to find the winner of a sixteenth prize. http://www.internews.org/prs/2009/20091110_eja.shtm Environmental Reporting BDD10BEE-F738-4664-9D41-935C99DD568E Tue, 10 Nov 2009 14:59:35 -0800 Internews Network has moved to increase the skills and expertise of journalists in Sub-Saharan Africa through the introduction of county-to-country exchange visits for local journalism trainers. http://www.internews.org/prs/2009/20091109_kenya.shtm Africa 4BF88EDC-0DEE-42D8-B048-14E8A2BFB8C2 Mon, 9 Nov 2009 14:58:42 -0800 With the aim of empowering Crimean citizens through expanded access to information, and giving them the potential to participate in local decision-making, Internews has launched a new program, “Strengthening Media in Crimea.” http://www.internews.org/prs/2009/20091026_crimea.shtm Eurasia 916333FD-9DD7-419D-A225-36B1315A1802 Sun, 25 Oct 2009 14:57:50 -0800