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Reporting the World Home....
Stories out of the Knight/IPI conference at Poynter on unusual international reporting projects.

What you get in 20 seconds...Television news is the main source of information on the Israel-Palestine conflict for about 80% of the population. Yet the quality of what they see and hear is so confused and partial that it is impossible to have a sensible public debate about the reasons for the conflict or how it might be resolved.

Redefining freelancing with entrepreneurial Web journalism....
A first-person account of attracting funding - and readers - to an independent online journalism project that involved in-depth reporting abroad. Lives in Focus a multimedia blog, was the result. The project is an effort to document the lives of families struggling to buy anti-retroviral drugs in order to keep a family member healthy, and to show the challenges that stigmatized AIDS patients face while trying to earn enough money to buy lifesaving treatment.

 

 

Resources: Reporting the World

Online newspapers from around the world.

A comprehensive set of links to media internationally from University of Michigan's Internet Public Library. Not all links work. Gives some detail on each link.

Nettizen.com

Nettizen.com is a top International Newspaper Directory. Browse online the web's largest world newspapers database, research top newspaper listings, find links to detailed International Newspapers. Again not all links works. Provides a very large selection but no information except language.

Reporters without Borders

Reporters Without Borders’ maintains this trilingual (French, English and Spanish) website in order to keep a daily tally of attacks on press freedom as they occur throughout the world. Updated several times a day, it functions like a press-freedom news agency.

Reporting the World

Since 2001, Reporting the World has brought senior professional journalists together with experts and analysts from universities and NGOs, for discussions about reporting conflict. Lots of resources including a good section on Peace Journalism

SF Gate's World Views

Edward M. Gomez translates a selection from world media on a topic of the week every Tuesday.

Michael Massing on Reporting Iraq and WMDs

A search list from the New York Review of Books that gives access to some articles. A number of others are on electronic reserve for this subject.

Dart Center for Journalism & Trauma

The Dart Center is a global network of journalists, journalism educators and health professionals dedicated to improving media coverage of trauma, conflict and tragedy. The Center also addresses the consequences of such coverage for those working in journalism. It is associated with the Communications Department, University of Washington .

Lives in Focus

An innovative independent blogging project using video, audio and photographs, this website presents the voices of those who are rarely given space or time in traditional news media.The Inaugural Project focuses on the Impact of India's New Patent Law on the Treatment of the Country's HIV+ Population. Presented by Sandeep Junnarkar an award-winning journalist and journalism professor and photographer Srinivas Kuruganti.

 

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