Global Voices
| Global Voices | |
|---|---|
| legal form | Non-profit organization |
| founding | 2004 |
| founder | Berkman Center for Internet & Society |
| Seat | Amsterdam |
| main emphasis | journalism |
| Action space | Global |
| Website | globalvoices.org |
Global Voices is an international network of bloggers and citizen journalists , which is concerned with the observation and documentation of international blogs. The non-for-profit online community was founded in 2004 at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School by Ethan Zuckerman and Rebecca MacKinnon . In 2008 it was registered as a non-profit foundation in Amsterdam .
Working method
Global Voices wants to enable a community of “bridge bloggers” who can “build a bridge between two languages or two cultures”. A team of regional editors selects discourses and summarizes them. The contributions come from a wide variety of blogospheres with an emphasis on voices that do not come from the West and are underrepresented. The Global Voices website includes , for example, Congolese bloggers discussing the 2006 elections or Arab bloggers who respond to the controversy surrounding the Danish caricatures .
In 2007, Project Lingua was formed with the aim of translating the content of Global Voices from English into other languages. The content is currently being translated into more than 15 languages, including German, by independent but closely networked groups.
GV radio
Global Voices has been operating an audio web channel under the name GV Radio since May 2015 . The eight-hour program consists of a multilingual endless loop of podcasts and free world music .
Awards
In January 2006, Global Voices received an unconditional support grant from Reuters news agency . Also in 2006, the Foundation received the Knight-Batten Grand Prize, worth US $ 10,000, in recognition of its innovation in journalism .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Clark Boyd: Global Voices speak through blogs . In: BBC News . April 6, 2005
- ^ Chris Salzberg: Translation and Participatory Media: Experiences from Global Voices . In: Translation Journal. Vol. 12, No. July 3, 2008
- ^ Project Lingua website , accessed July 26, 2009
- ^ Open Your Ears to the Sounds of the World With GV Radio. In: Global Voices. May 11, 2015, accessed May 13, 2015 .
- ↑ Mark Sweney: Reuters partners in comment blog . In: The Guardian . April 13, 2006
- ↑ J-Lab: Knight-Batten 2006 Winners. Retrieved March 7, 2015 .