Global Voices
Berkman Center for Internet & Society | |
Type | Nonprofit foundation |
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Focus | Journalism |
Headquarters | Amsterdam, Netherlands |
Coordinates | 52°23′08″N 4°50′36″E / 52.3855°N 4.8433°E |
Area served | Global |
Website | globalvoices.org |
Global Voices is an international community of writers,
Objectives
When Global Voices was formed, Its objectives were: first, to enable and empower a community of "bridge bloggers" who "can make a bridge between two languages, or two cultures."[1] Second to develop tools and resources to make achieving the first objective more effective. It has maintained a working relationship with mainstream media. Reuters, for example, gave Global Voices unrestricted grants from 2006 to 2008.[2] For its contribution to innovation in journalism, Global Voices was granted the 2006 Knight-Batten Grand Prize.[3] Global Voices was also recognized in 2009 with the University of Denver's Anvil of Freedom award for contributions to journalism and democracy.[4]
The organization stated its goals as of 2012[update]:
- "Call attention to the most interesting conversations and perspectives emerging from citizens’ media around the world by linking to text, photos, podcasts, video and other forms of grassroots citizens’ media."
- "Facilitate the emergence of new citizens’ voices through training, online tutorials, and publicizing the ways in which open-source and free tools can be used safely by people around the world".
- "Advocate for freedom of expression ... and protect the rights of citizen journalists".[5]
Global Voices has a team of regional editors that aggregates and selects conversations from a variety of blogospheres, with a particular focus on non-Western and underrepresented voices. Contributors are volunteers.[6]
Notable people
References
- ^ Boyd, Clark (6 April 2005). "Global voices speak through blogs". BBC News. BBC. Retrieved 2 January 2012.
- ^ Sweney, Mark (13 April 2006). "Reuters partners in comment blog". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 2 January 2012.
- ^ "J-Lab". J-Lab: The Institute for Interactive Journalism. Retrieved 28 June 2016.
- ^ "Previous Anvil of Freedom Winners". Estlow International Center for Journalism & New Media. Retrieved 28 June 2016.
- ^ "What is Global Voices". www.globalvoices.org. Retrieved 1 August 2012.
- ^ "Global Voices · Participate". Global Voices. Retrieved 30 January 2019.