Digital Video "Democratizes" TV - by Julie Piotrowski http://www.medill.northwestern.edu/inside/2002/dvdojo.html http://www.medill.northwestern.edu/index.html While working as a producer with CBS News in 1988, Michael Rosenblum felt increasingly distanced from his subjects with "no way to get close to any character and no way to spend time on any story." Union rules prevented him from picking up a camera. So he left CBS, purchased a small video camera and went to the Gaza Strip to live with a family in a Palestinian refugee camp. The intimate access allowed Rosenblum to film some remarkable footage, which The MacNeil/Lehrer Newshour purchased for $50,000 when he returned to the states. Rosenblum found himself with a new career, and he set out to teach other journalists how to make television on their own...how to be a video journalist, a VJ. Contact Information: Medill School of Journalism Northwestern University 1845 Sheridan Road Evanston, IL   60208-2101 USA Telephone: 847.467.1882   Fax: D.C. 202.662.1847 Email: Webmaster@medill.nwu.edu Everybody Loves a Good Drought - by P. Sainath http://www.moulinsmedia.com/ Elected an Ashoka Fellow in 1994, P. Sainath is the author of Everybody Loves a Good Drought, a landmark bestseller that tells the stories of how the poorest people in India live their lives. In the best tradition of responsible journalism, Sainath criss-crosses the country and tells us stories from life in the "other India", the India far removed from beauty contests and cyber cafes. This book is a collection of about 70 articles that had appeared in the Times of India, quite an unprecedented event in the history of the staid Times which is more used to spending acres of paper on the likes of cricket stars and touting the miracles of the "free market" than on real people with real problems. The book, which won 13 awards, including the European Commission's Journalism Award, is a chronicle of the living conditions in the ten poorest districts of India. For two years Sainath lived among these communities. He traveled across India, often on foot, in hill areas, drought-prone areas, and tribal areas to put the issue of poverty back on the national agenda. According to Palagummi Sainath, the shift from hard-hitting, truth-seeking journalism to innocuous, promotional stenography goes hand in hand with the increase of convergence. In this new media world, a wealthy few not only own the press, but also suffocate its freedom by making sure everything printed or broadcast fits with their business interests. Sainath believes the headlock that international media barons have put on the press contributed to the '90s becoming "the time of the most gross social inequality since the Second World War." Referring to India, where the richest five per cent of the country owns the vast majority of the nation's wealth, he said the nation's press shows little concern for the plight of the poor. In the fall of 2001, Sainath took a collection of his photographs back to some of the villages in India he'd visited over the past dozen years. The exhibit, "Visible Work, Invisible Women" was seen by more than 100,000 Indians in little more than two months. Notable Feature(s): Journalism of Just Stenography? - an assessment of Sainath's importance in the media world by Dirk Shouten; A Tribe of His Own - a documentary of Sainath's work as a journalist; brief bio of Sainath; a profile of his Ashoka work. Contact Information: Palagummi Sainath Telephone: 202.955.3400   Email: sainath@ilbom.ernet.in Smoke Gets in Our Eyes: The Globalization Protests and the Befuddled Press By John Giuffo http://www.cjr.org/year/01/5/giuffo.asp http://www.cjr.org/ A hard look at more than 200 stories by major news outlets, (ABC, CBS, CNN, FOX, NBC, the Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Time, and Newsweek) shows serious weaknesses in the coverage of the four largest protests -- the International Monetary Fund meeting in Prague in September 2000; the hemispheric free trade talks in Quebec City in April; the European Union summit in Gothenburg, Sweden this June; and the G-8 meeting in Genoa in July 2001...The protests are difficult to cover -- chaotic, partially violent, and complex in their list of complaints and demands. Still, the underlying issues that have brought out hundreds of thousands of people are often glossed over or misrepresented. Contact Information: Columbia Journalism Review Journalism Building Columbia University New York, NY   10027 USA Telephone: 212.854.1881   Fax: 212.854.8580 Email: cjr@columbia.edu The lost middle voice - by Elizabeth Birge http://www.spj.org/quill_issue.asp?ref=282 Forced by deadlines, the need for comment and the idea that “balance” is defined by the presence of two opposing points of view, journalists often write guided by the loudest and most accessible voices. And in the process, they leave the complicated middle, the sometimes-uncertain middle, and the almost always crowded middle, alone and silent. Birge examines alternatives to this dilemma and the training that is required to break this pattern and thus to find the best sources for stories. Contact Information: Elizabeth Birge, Assistant Professor of Journalism William Peterson University Email: BirgeE@wpunj.edu Columbia Journalism Review (CJR) http://www.cjr.org/ Contact Information: Columbia Journalism Review The Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University 2950 Broadway New York, NY   10027 USA Telephone: 212.854.4150   Fax: 212.854.7837 Email: webmaster@jrn.columbia.edu Fields of Sorrow - A Photographer's Diary - by Peter Turnley http://digitaljournalist.org/issue9904/fields01.htm http://digitaljournalist.org/contents.html The Digital Journalist here presents a gallery of Peter Turnley's photographs from 1999. The first one shows ethnic Albanian citizens of Kosovo walking along the railroad tracks to avoid the landmines planted by the Serbian army. Tens of thousands of refugees were then pouring into Albania and Macedonia, as Serbian forces execute a "scorched-earth policy" in Kosovo. Notable Feature(s): The entire collection of photographs is available on an index page. Contact Information: Dirck Halstead - Editor and Publisher Email: dirck.halstead@pressroom.com Honoring News Photos as Picture-Taking Evolves - by Douglas Heingartner http://www.changemakers.net/library/temp/nyt050305.html http://www.worldpressphoto.nl/ This New York Times account of the 2004 awards from World Press Photo, a nonprofit organization based in Amsterdam, that sponsors what has become photojournalism's premier event. Arko Datta's photo of a woman grieving for a relative killed by the tsunami was named Photo of the Year. The article assesses the popularity and power of still photos that capture socially relevant news and situations. Notable Feature(s): World Press Photo aims to encourage high professional standards in photojournalism and to promote a free and unrestricted exchange of information. To this end Photo supports professional press photography on a wide international scale. Promotional activities include an annual contest, exhibitions, the stimulation of photojournalism through educational programs, and creating greater visibility for press photography through a variety of publications. The prize-winning photographs each year are assembled into a traveling exhibition that is visited by over a million people in 40 countries. A yearbook presenting all prizewinning entries is published annually in six languages. Justice Journalism: Journalist as agent of social change - by Terry Messman http://www.media-alliance.org/mediafile/20-4/justice.html Many forms of politically engaged journalism have arisen to fight social injustices in the course of U.S. history: the radical pamphlets by Thomas Paine that helped incite a revolutionary uprising against British rule; the muckraking reporting of Upton Sinclair that exposed inhumane conditions in the Chicago stockyards; the investigation of the Standard Oil Company by Ida Tarbell; Dorothy Day's prophetic reporting on the injustice of poverty in her groundbreaking Catholic Worker newspaper....These and other crusading journalists have left us an inspiring historic legacy of morally charged, politically engaged reporting. They were all socially conscious writers who, in varying ways, practiced "justice journalism." The increasingly homogenized world view packaged by the corporate press has triggered an upsurge in new, independent forms of journalism and has forced maverick media groups to take the news into their own hands. The quenched spirit of muckraking journalism has been reborn at the barricades of anti-globalization protests, and has reappeared on street corners and in homeless shelters across the country. Today, an outspoken brand of justice journalism lives on in the passionate experiments in media activism by the Independent Media Centers, and in the insurgent reporting on poverty and economic inequality carried out by a coast-to-coast network of homeless newspapers. Contact Information: Email: mediafile@media-alliance.org Online Newspaper Shakes Up Korean Politics - by Howard F. French http://www.changemakers.net/library/temp/nytimes030603.cfm http://www.guardian.co.uk/Print/0,3858,4591009,00.html This March 2003 New York Times article profiles the innovative online newspaper - OhMyNews - whose unusual concept from the beginning has been to rely mostly on contributions from ordinary readers all over the country, who send dispatches about everything from local happenings and personal musings to national politics. Only 20 percent of the paper each day is written by staff journalists. So far, a computer check shows, there have been more than 10,000 other bylines in its first three years. According to Mr. Oh, "The concept of our paper is that all citizens can participate." That concept translates to 23,000 citizen reporters ensuring that the news is broad and targeted at community interests. Notable Feature(s): The Korean language site for OhMyNews; send mail to OhMyNews: ohmynews@ohmynews.com; a March 2003 BBC article on Oh Yeon-ho's Web-based newspaper; another article on OhMyNews. Contact Information: Oh Yeon-ho OhMyNews Seoul South Korea Email: webmaster@ohmynews.com About Faces - by Lisa Katzman http://www.fordfound.org/publications/ff_report/view_ff_report_detail.cfm?report_index=180 http://www.internews.org/ Television brought with it the notion of the global village. Now "Vis à Vis," a documentary series that uses videoconferencing to bring together people divided by political, cultural or religious differences, is bringing us the global living room. sergeants - Hendriek Mohale in Soweto, South Africa, and David Van in Philadelphia - compare experiences of on-the-job racism and In one segment, "Blue and Black," two black police commiserate about the challenges of enforcing the law in impoverished communities. Originally developed for European television, "Vis à Vis" is produced by Internews Network, a nonprofit media production company based in California that has 20 offices worldwide. Internews also produces television shows with broadcasters in many of the world's troubled spots, and conducts media training programs in several emerging democracies. The videoconferencing system that Internews uses is not all that sophisticated: just a video camera mounted on top of a television to record the conversations. Though the technology isn't new, Santos says: "How you use your tools says a lot about your values. Internews focuses on how to make the tools useful to the development of democratic values." The power of the Internews model is that it is both nonprofit and international, an unusual combination. "The commercial media is characterized by its global reach, but the world of public-interest media and public broadcasting remains national in scope," Santos says. "In a sense, Internews is trying to create a global broadcasting enterprise." Notable Feature(s): The article profiles Internews, a Ford Foundation grantee that supports open media worldwide. The nonprofit organization fosters independent media in emerging democracies, produces innovative television and radio programming and Internet content, and uses the media to reduce conflict within and between countries. Contact Information: Internews 1215 17th Street, NW, 4th Floor Washington, D.C.   20036 USA Telephone: 202.833.5740   Fax: 202.833.5745 Email: info@internews.org American Journalism Review http://ajr.newslink.org/news.html Blue Ear http://www.blueear.com/index.cfm http://blueear.com/community.cfm Blue Ear is a global community of writers and readers who meet online in a daily edited discussion, sorted and archived in categories analogous to the sections of a newspaper. Blue Ear aspires to both the authority and the intimacy of the once-great British weekly paper The Observer, whose editor David Astor said, "I edit The Observer for myself and my friends." Contact Information: Ethan Casey, Editor Michael Corbin, Publisher BlueEar.com, LLC P.O. Box 2288 Mission, Kansas   66201 USA Email: editor@blueear.com Cartoonists Rights Network (CRN) http://www.cartoonnet.org/ http://cagle.slate.msn.com/crn/ The Cartoonists Rights Network champions the work of cartoonists around the world and their role in changing attitudes, exposing corruption, and ensuring free speech and the human rights of the cartoonists themselves and those they would protect from abuse, unjust incarceration, and censorship. CRN has affiliate organizations in Romania, Bulgaria, Yugoslavia, Ukraine, Cyprus, Cameroon, Nigeria, Uganda, Ghana, and others starting up in many more countries. CRN conducts workshops that help editorial cartoonists understand their rights under local and international free speech laws, and it networks thousands of cartoonists so they may understand that they are not alone in their daily struggles to tell the truth from the independent journalist's point of view. CRN Affiliate members are cartoonists who want to develop the economic base of their craft and strengthen the cartoonist's influence with the public. CRN Romania holds annual cartoon competitions on issues of free speech from the pens of hundreds of international cartoonists. Contact Information: Robert Russell, Director Cartoonists Rights Network , Virginia USA Email: bro@cartoonnet.org Children's Express http://www.childrens-express.org/ CE's mission is to give young people the power and the means to express themselves publicly on vital issues that affect them, and in the process to raise their self-esteem and develop their potential. Children's Express is unique: a growing national news agency, and a charity, where young people aged 8-18 produce articles on issues that are important to them, but of interest to everyone. At CE, kids choose which stories they want to investigate, conduct research, prepare questions and lead discussions and interviews. They record everything onto tape. Tapes are converted into print and editors help turn them into the finished article. Children's Express already has newsrooms in London, Birmingham, Sheffield, Newcastle, Belfast and Plymouth. Contact Information: Children's Express UK Headquarters Exmouth House 3-11 Pine Street London EC1R 0JH UK Telephone: 020 7833 2577   Fax: 020 7278 7722 Email: enquiries@childrensexpress.btinternet.com Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) http://www.cpj.org/ The Committee to Protect Journalists is a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization founded in 1981 to monitor abuses against the press and promote press freedom around the world. Notable Feature(s): Weekly alerts of dangerous areas; country and regional reports and news; violation report forms; publications; annual survey; global links to sites under siege. Contact Information: Committee to Protect Journalists 330 7th Avenue, 12th Floor New York, NY   10001 USA Telephone: (212) 465-1004   Email: info@cpj.org Common Dreams: Breaking News & Views for the Progressive Community http://www.commondreams.org/ Common Dreams is a national nonprofit citizens' organization working to bring progressive Americans together to promote progressive visions for America's future. Founded in 1997, the initiative is committed to being on the cutting-edge of using the Internet as a political organizing tool - and creating new models for Internet activism. Its eclectic mix of politics, issues and breaking news with an emphasis on progressive perspectives is increasingly hard to find among corporate-dominated media. Notable Feature(s): Progressive newswire; excellent community of like-minded organizations, news sources, and change opportunities. Contact Information: Common Dreams PO Box 443 Portland, Maine   04112-0443 USA Telephone: 207.775.0488   Fax: 207.775.0489 Email: editor@commondreams.org Covering Criminal Justice http://www.cjr.org/Resources/crime99/cjr-cg.pdf This 42-page resource guide presented by the Center on Crime, Communities & Culture and the Columbia Journalism Review is a vast compendium of perspective, references, and organizations that can aid journalists and others dealing with crime and crime reporting, corrections, prevention, violence as a public health issue, and many other issues. Notable Feature(s): The Center on Crime, Communities & Culture is a program of the Open Society Institute. Contact Information: Andrew Martin, Communications Center on Crime, Communities & Culture 400 West 59th Street New York, New York   10019 USA Telephone: 212.547.6940   Fax: 212.548.4666 Email: amartin@sorosny.org Cyber-Times http://www.cyber-times.org/index.html Cyber-times.org is a forum for the exchange of information and the promotion of understanding across international boundaries. It links journalism training institutions throughout the world in a network of cooperative activity on a platform of equitable access. Notable Feature(s): Numerous articles and news on technology, the environment, culture, people, and media. Contact Information: Email: editor@cyber-times.org Dan Gillmor on Grassroots Journalism, Etc. http://dangillmor.typepad.com/ This site opens onto a conversation about the future of journalism "by the people, for the people" -- and occasional other thoughts. Dan Gillmor, founder of Grassroots Media Inc., is working on a project to encourage and enable more citizen-based media. This weblog is devoted to the discussion of the issues facing grassroots journalism as it grows into an important force in society. Dan is author of We the Media: Grassroots Journalism By the People, For the People, a 2004 book that is widely credited as the first comprehensive look at way the collision of technology and journalism is transforming the media landscape. Contact Information: Dan Gillmor Grassroots Media Inc. 543 Howard St., 5th Floor San Francisco, CA   94105 U.S.A. Telephone: 415.946.3038   Email: grassroots@gillmor.com Deccan Herald http://www.deccanherald.com/ Contact Information: Deccan Herald 75, Mahatma Gandhi Road Post Box No 5331 Bangalore   560001 India Telephone: +91.80.5588999   Fax: +91.80.5586443 Directory of World Newspapers http://nt1.ids.ac.uk/eldis/newsp/news.htm Contact Information: Peter Ferguson Eldis Programme, Institute of Development Studies University of Sussex, Falmer Brighton   BN1 9RE UK Telephone: +44 1273 606261   Fax: +44 1273 621202 Email: eldis@ids.ac.uk Drik - Images for Change http://www.drik.net/ Drik is part of a worldwide network of organizations campaigning for human rights and social change through photography, information technology and media activism. In 1989 a small group of people set up a picture agency in the unlikely location of Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh. Named Drik, the Sanskrit word for vision, the agency set out to represent a group of media professionals that other agencies did not cater for, practitioners living and working in the majority world. In the years that have followed, many others from Asia, Africa and Latin America have joined the original group. All of them share a common vision; one that sees the majority world, not as fodder for disaster reporting, but as a vibrant source of human energy and a challenge to an exploitative global economic system. Having pioneered the introduction of email into Bangladesh, Drik continues to take the lead in new media, through not only the launch of the nation's first webzine Meghbarta, the web portal Orientation, and the country's human rights portal Banglarights, but also through its broadband direct satellite link. Drik's social commitment is central to its work ethos. While its professional team making up the library, darkroom, studio, gallery and publication, multimedia and Internet departments provides state of the art media products for an international clientele, it also provides support for its network of creative individuals around the world who challenge western media hegemony. Its training programmes range from providing education for working class children to training the region's brightest young photojournalists through Pathshala, its education wing, where top professionals from Magnum, National Geographic, Time, Contact Press Images and other leading media organisations make up the visiting faculty. Notable Feature(s): From 2002 an ART Asia Pacific article images for change by Antonia Carver, tracing the early history and growing success of its social change work and business model; resources on Drik's human rights work, AIDS, work with working class people, Chobi Mela, the first festival of photography in Asia, and the Drik Partnership, which is a professional media development partnership between five international media groups. The partnership includes: Sørvis Kommunikasjon in Risør, Norway; Drik in Dhaka, Bangladesh; Samso in Harare, Zimbabwe; Business Times Group in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania; and Uganda Home Pages in Kampala, Uganda. The partnership was founded in Risør, Norway in January 2001 and was approved as a partner of the Norwegian exchange programme, Fredskorpset in June 2001. Fredskorpset is an "exchange for development" programme, established by the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Drik Partnership was the first partner to send out and receive young professionals and participants in Fredskorpset in June 2001. Drik Partnership's foundation is based on ideas from the Norwegian partner-Sørvis. For several years, Sørvis has worked to include images and other journalistic expressions from the majority world in the Scandinavian media. It is named after Drik in Bangladesh - an independent and innovative business enterprise, that is a model organisation in media development under limited resources and limited media freedom. The African partners are professional media organisations respected for their endurance and creativity in unstable economical and political conditions. The Drik Partnership exchanges will run for the next 3-5 years. Each year, 8-12 young professional participants will be exchanged between the partner organisations. The participants will be placed in demanding learning environments and new and challenging social settings. Contact Information: DRIK House 58 Road 15A (New) Dhanmondi Residential Area Dhaka, 1209 Bangladesh Telephone: 880-2 9120125   Fax: 880-2 9115044 Email: office@drik.net Global Beat - Resource Service for the Global Journalist http://www.nyu.edu/globalbeat/index.html Contact Information: Email: owner-gbsyndicate@forums.nyu.edu Global Beat Links Directory http://www.nyu.edu/globalbeat/links.html Contact Information: Email: global.beat@nyu.edu Globalvision http://www.globalvision.org/ Co-founded by award-winning journalists Rory O'Connor and Danny Schechter, Globalvision is a full-service, independent, international media company specializing in information, entertainment and educational programming. For more than a decade, Globalvision has produced highly acclaimed newsmagazines, nationally televised specials, cutting edge documentary films, leading Web sites, public service campaigns, and a wide variety of corporate communications tools and strategies. Its clients range from mainstream media outlets such as CBS News, Time Warner, Disney, Nippon Television, Universal Pictures and many others, to prominent foundations and nonprofits such as the Gates Foundation, the Open Society, Greenpeace, Sierra Club, Amnesty International and UNICEF, to labor unions and corporations such as the United Auto Workers, the Body Shop, the Coca-Cola Company and Reebok International. Since 1988, Globalvision producers have helped people all over the world tell their own stories. Their first Emmy Award-winning news magazine series South Africa Now presented an uncensored view of life under apartheid from the point of view of local journalists equipped with camcorders. The series aired weekly from 1988 to 1991 on U.S. public television stations as well as in 15 countries abroad and was the beginning of what Globalvision now terms its "inside-out" style of journalism. Globalvision's second international weekly news magazine, Rights & Wrongs: Human Rights Television offered viewers hard-hitting, analytical and caring reporting on global human rights issues. This tradition of storytelling from the "inside out" informs its work in every arena today—from the leading Internet supersite, the MediaChannel.org, to award-winning documentaries such as "Counting on Democracy" and "The Hole in the Wall," and to entertaining television specials such as "We Are Family" and "The Soul of Christmas: A Celtic Music Celebration." Notable Feature(s): Globalvision Bews Network. Contact Information: Rory O'Connor, CEO Globalvision 1600 Broadway, Suite 700 New York, n.y.   10019 U.S.A. Telephone: 212.246.0202   Fax: 212.246.2677 Email: gvinfo@globalvision.org How to Conduct a Multi-Ethnic Team Reporting Project http://www.nyu.edu/globalbeat/pubs/part1.html A Multi-Ethnic Team Reporting Project can contribute to inter-ethnic and interracial understanding and bridge-building by practicing objective, fact-based reporting that avoids stereotyping or stirring up rumors. This handbook provides a constructive way for the mass media to promote understanding across ethnic and racial lines through conducting a Multi-Ethnic Team Reporting Project. In detailed, step-by-step instructions, the handbook explains how to plan, organize, and execute such a project and how to maximize its impact with a series of follow-up steps. It is a hands-on training manual that focuses as much on the learning processes journalists undergo as the finished product they create. Contact Information: Email: global.beat@nyu.edu Independent Press Association http://www.indypress.org/ Founded on the fringes of the 1996 Media & Democracy Congress in San Francisco, the Independent Press Association (IPA) promotes and supports independent publications committed to social justice and a free press. According to John Anner, IPA Executive Director, IPA members struggle against difficult odds to publish in the public interest. The IPA exists to help them in their struggle, and we accomplish this goal through direct technical assistance, training, information sharing, public education, advocacy and promotional efforts. Through this work, the IPA helps to make these magazines visible to the larger American public. Our goal is also to help these publications make strategic alliances with other institutions active in the movement for a more just society. Notable Feature(s): Excellent collection of alternative links to mainstream media. Contact Information: IPA 2729 Mission St., #201 San Francisco, CA   94110-3131 USA Telephone: 415.643.4401   Fax: 415.643.4402 Email: ipadirector@indypress.org Independent Press Association - New York http://www.indypressny.org/ http://www.indypress.org/ IPA-New York works to support and promote independent publications committed to social justice and a free press. It is the only association of ethnic and community publications in the city. Since April of 2000, IPA-New York has been providing technical assistance, training, networking opportunities, and advocacy for its members. It is building a network of freestanding community and ethnic papers to strengthen each other through cooperative action. The New York-based initiative provides technical assistance to various publications and is a vigorous advocate for their ethnic and generally under-reported news, voices, and opinions. Notable Feature(s): Report by Abby Scher, Taking the (Bad) News with the Good: Alternative Publications Build a Movement on the Margins, on the cultural role and importance of locally written and distributed news publications targeting people of color and other marginalized groups and communities. Contact Information: IPA-New York 143 West 29th Street #901 New York, NY   10001 USA Telephone: 212.279.1442   Fax: 212.239.8571 Institute for War & Peace Reporting (IWPR) http://www.iwpr.net/ The Institute for War & Peace Reporting strengthens local journalism in areas of conflict. By training reporters, facilitating dialogue and providing reliable information, it supports peace, democracy and development in societies undergoing crisis and change. IWPR's work is distinguished by intensive on-the-job training, practical collaboration between international and regional journalists to transfer skills and experience for the long term. The Institute takes training out of the classroom and conference hall and brings it into the field, assisting the professional development of the media while addressing journalists' and editors' immediate, day-to-day priorities. By improving the capacity of local journalists to produce balanced and accurate reporting in the public interest, the activities are designed to contribute to public understanding of political issues within the region as well as internationally, with an emphasis on democratisation, human rights, conflict resolution and development. IWPR manages major programmes in Afghanistan, the Balkans, the Caucasus and Central Asia, with a special reporting project on war crimes tribunals. The Institute maintains offices in Almaty, Belgrade, Bishkek, The Hague, Kabul, Skopje, Tashkent, Tbilisi and Dushanbe with representatives in Baku, Sarajevo, Tirana, Vladikavkaz and Yerevan. Notable Feature(s): Human rights journalism from aroung the world; Special Reports on regions in conflict and struggling for positive social change; vast archive of stories from various regions; maps and country profiles; links to other resources and programs. Contact Information: Institute for War & Peace Reporting Lancaster House 33 Islington High Street London N1 9LH UK Telephone: +44 (0)20 7713 7130   Fax: +44 (0)20 7713 7140 Email: info@iwpr.net International Freedom of Expression eXchange (IFEX) http://www.ifex.org/ As profound violations of the right to free expression continue around the globe, the International Freedom of Expression Exchange (IFEX) has emerged as a strong and growing force of opposition against these violations. At its core, IFEX is made up of organisations whose members refuse to turn away when those who have the courage to insist upon their fundamental human right to free expression are censored, brutalized or killed. Comprising 71 organisations - located everywhere from the Pacific Islands to Europe to West Africa - IFEX draws together a tremendously diverse and dedicated global community. The nerve centre of IFEX is the Clearing House, located in Toronto, Canada, and managed by Canadian Journalists for Free Expression. The Clearing House helps coordinate the work of IFEX members, reducing overlap among their activities and making them more effective in their shared objectives. Notable Feature(s): Alerts and breaking news from around the world; campaigns; events; member services; Tools and resources. Contact Information: IFEX 555 Richmond St W. Suite 1101 Post Office Box #407 Toronto, Ontario Canada M5V 3B1 Telephone: +1 416 515 9622   Fax: +1 416 515 7879 Email: ifex@ifex.org International Journalists' Network http://www.ijnet.org/ The International Journalists' Network (IJNet) is an excellent online service for journalists, media managers, media assistance professionals, journalism trainers and educators and anyone else with an interest in the state of the media around the world. The IJNet is produced by the International Center for Journalists (ICFJ) in Washington, D.C. Areas of special emphasis include Central Europe, Africa, Latin America, the Newly Independent States and Russia and Eurasia Notable Feature(s): An excellent source of news, statistics, media outlets, and freedom of the press issues in more than 100 countries. Contact Information: International Center for Journalists 1616 H Street, NW, Third Floor Washington, DC   20006 USA Telephone: 202.737.3700   Fax: 202.373.0530 Email: ijnet@icfj.org International Press Institute (IPI) http://www.freemedia.at/index1.html The International Press Institute is a global network of journalists, editors and media executives, dedicated to freedom of the press and improving the standards and practices of journalism. Notable Feature(s): IPI publishes a monthly electronic newsletter, which focuses on press freedom and on IPI's work to counter violations. IPI encourages its members and others to draw its attention to relevant stories. Contact Information: Johann P. Fritz IPI Headquarters Spiegelgasse 2 A-1010 Vienna Austria Telephone: + 43 1 512 90 11   Fax: + 43 1 512 90 14 Email: contact@freemedia.at ipi@freemedia.at International Women's Media Foundation (IWMF) http://www.iwmf.org/index.htm http://www.awmc.com/ The International Women's Media Foundation (IWMF) was launched in 1990 with a mission to strengthen the role of women in the news media worldwide, based on the belief that no press is truly free unless women share an equal voice. The IWMF works to reduce discrimination and eliminate persecution of women in the news media, and to encourage promotion of women as leaders within the media. A key component of all IWMF programs is the exchange of ideas, skills and knowledge to enhance women journalists' professional capabilities. The IWMF sponsors training sessions and seminars that respond to the needs of women journalists for learning and growth. All over the globe, IWMF programs offer critical leadership development tools, training in the techniques of a free press, and practical advice about the business of the media. Notable Feature(s): IWMF reports: Women's Health Care: Romania; Empowering Women in the Asian Media; The Power Behind the Scene: African-American Women in the Media; Empowering Women in the Media: Mexico The African Women's Media Center, opened in 1997 by the International Women's Media Foundation in Dakar, Senegal, offers opportunities for training and networking; the AWMC works with existing women's media organizations to provide women journalists the support necessary to compete equally with their male colleagues; AWMC site also available in French. Excellent directory of Internet resources on journalism, women in media, radio broadcasting, global communications, freedom of speech and press. Contact Information: International Women's Media Foundation 1726 M Street NW, Suite 1002 Washington, DC   Washington USA Telephone: 202.496.1992   Fax: 202.496.1977 Email: iwmf@aol.com Journalists' Toolkit: Essential Resources for the Working Journalist http://www.mediachannel.org/getinvolved/journo/ A directory of Web sites collected by MediaChannel to help in directing journalists and others to important international and regional news, training, media, and networking sources and organizations. Learning Matters Inc. http://www.pbs.org/merrow/index2.htm The Merrow Report is journalism that goes beyond telling a story. It wants to make a difference in the lives of young people. The program is an initiative of Learning Matters Inc., a production company that coordinates Listen Up!, a Web network and vehicle for American youth media producers who can find and exercise their voices through producing videos and public service announcements about their communities. Notable Feature(s): Listen Up! News from the Trenches. Contact Information: John Merrow Learning Matters Inc. 6 E. 32nd street, 8th floor New York, NY   10016 USA Telephone: 212.725.7000   Fax: 212.725.2433 Email: merrow@merrow.org info@listenup.org MC-NET http://www.mediachannel.org/mc-net/ This networking list enables MediaChannel affiliates to seek help or initiate collaborations on ongoing and upcoming projects and discover advice, experts, resources and colleagues across the global network. As a member of this group, you may send messages to the entire group using just one email address: MC-Net@mail-list.com. MC-Net is intended specifically for MediaChannel affiliates to initiate collaborations, dialogue and the exchange of expertise. Affiliate Manager Andrew Levy (andrew@mediachannel.org) will lightly moderate the list to approve or discard posts before they are sent to the whole network. Members should respect email inbox space and keep posts short and to the point. Notable Feature(s): To participate in the Media Channel, fill out the online form. Contact Information: Email: Andrew@mediachannel.org Media Channel http://www.mediachannel.org/ Media Channel is a nonprofit project of The Global Center and OneWorld Online, one of the leading informational supersites on the Internet. Media Channel's mission statement lays out its field of concern: "Nine transnational conglomerates dominate the global media. Only 20 major companies control nearly all the newspapers in the United States. Magazines, films, radio and television stations, book publishers and multimedia producers all are subject to the same monopolistic tendencies. With market values firmly in command, we are witnessing the commercialization of public space, the decline of journalism, the denigration of ideas of public service, and the debasing of our political culture. The media have a profound effect on our cultures, on our personal and political choices. Increasingly, to be an informed citizen requires a knowledge of the workings of the media world. For this reason, the kind of knowledge that once was the province of insiders and the territory of specialists is becoming of interest to the public at large. Media Channel offers content from more than 300 international media-issues organizations; daily media news; original contributions from journalists, researchers, and whistle-blowers; and tools to encourage public involvement in media activism. Notable Feature(s): A seemingly exhaustive and authoritative source of news, opinion, trends, analysis, background reading, links and other media information of use throughout the world, including notably, a Media Literacy ToolKit for parents, kids and teachers. Contact Information: Media Channel 1600 Broadway, Suite 700 New York, NY   10019 USA Telephone: 212.246.0202   Fax: 212.246.2677 Email: editor@mediachannel.org Media Island International (MII) http://www.mediaisland.org/ Media Island International (MII) is a resource and networking center for individuals, organizations, and movements working on a regional, national, and international basis. MII is committed to collecting, processing, and distributing crucial information addressing the social justice, economic democracy, ecological sustainability and peace issues that we all collectively face. MII's goal is to help people across networks of individuals and organizations working on these issues. Notable Feature(s): An enormous directory of links to "civic media" publications, television, and radio sites. Contact Information: Media Island International P.O. Box 7204 Olympia, Washington   98507 USA Telephone: 360.352.8526   Fax: 360.352.8526 Email: mii@olywa.net Nepal News - as it happens and from many sources http://www.nepalnews.com Contact Information: Nepal News P.O. Box 876 Durbar Marg Kathmandu Nepal Telephone: 977.1.220.773   Fax: 977.1.225.407 Email: npnews@mos.com.np New America Foundation http://www.newamerica.net/ The New America Foundation is a nonprofit, public policy institute whose purpose is to bring exceptionally promising new voices and new ideas to the fore of America's public discourse. Believing that neither side of the political divide is adequately addressing the genuine challenges and opportunities of our era, the New America Foundation seeks to reshape our public debate by investing in outstanding individuals and ideas that transcend the conventional political spectrum. Powerful forces – from the dawn of the information age to massive demographic shifts to economic globalization – are remaking America. At a time of such sweeping changes, our nation, more than ever, needs a robust public debate, one that does justice to the new and complex dilemmas of this unfolding era. Yet prevailing ideologies are failing to provide adequate answers to the challenges ahead. What is worse, our society is not investing, as it should be, in developing forward-looking policy solutions, or in nurturing the creative young thinkers most capable of crafting them. Accordingly, one of New America's core programs focuses on training and supporting the next generation of public intellectuals. The Foundation provides economic, intellectual and institutional support to outstanding young writers, thinkers and practitioners whose work holds the promise of improving the quality of our nation's public discourse for decades to come. The first New America Fellows were appointed in January 1999. New America Fellows are routinely featured in virtually all the nation's leading op-ed pages and opinion magazines. Notable Feature(s): From New America Foundation Fellows: Best Articles of 2002. Contact Information: The New America Foundation 1630 Connecticut Avenue, N.W., 7th Floor Washington, DC   20009 USA Telephone: 202.986.2700   Fax: 202.986.3696 Newspaper Management Guide Launched for Emerging Democracies A new management guide written by Tatiana Repkova for newspapers in emerging democracies is being launched this week by the World Association of Newspapers (WAN) at the first in a series of round table discussions for newspapers in South Eastern Europe. According to Aralynn McMane, Director of Educational Programmes for the Paris-based WAN, Independent newspapers are a key element in the emergence of healthy democracies. They expose corruption and generally serve as watchdogs. But even the newspapers with the best journalists can't do their job if they don't succeed as businesses. Many newspapers do not have the basic skills and knowledge they need on how to run their operations, and those who do rarely have the chance to share their experiences. This book, and the round table discussions, are designed to provide that information. The book covers everything from the role of journalism in emerging democracies to strategic planning, business planning, editorial content, organisational structures, labour organisation, human resources and internal communication. It will be published in Albanian, Bulgarian, Croatian, English, French, Romanian, Russian and Slovak in partnership with the Open Society Institute and WAN. Contact Information: Larry Kilman Director of Communications, WAN 25 rue d'Astorg Paris   75008 France Telephone: +33 1 47 42 85 00   Fax: +33 1 47 42 49 48 Email: lkilman@wan.asso.fr OhmyNews International http://english.ohmynews.com/index.asp OhmyNews editor says "Every Citizen is a Reporter. " Citizen participatory journalism is exploding in South Korea in a chaotic but at the same time well-organized way. When OhmyNews went online on Feb. 22, 2000, its four founders ventured into unknown territory with 727 Korean citizen reporters. The man behind the philosophy that "every citizen is a reporter" is Mr. Oh Yeon Ho, a former monthly magazine journalist, who hoped to update the OhmyNews site once a week with a smattering of stories from around the country. Oh's dream of countering the stranglehold of conservative media coverage quickly caught the attention of Korean "netizens." Articles started pouring in, site traffic exploded, and five years later the work of some 37,000 citizen reporters is attracting not only the interest of advertisers (OhmyNews turned a profit in late 2003) but also traditional media and academics around the world. Now OhmyNews is building a global network of citizen reporters (open to all) writing in English on OhmyNews International, which launched in June 2004. Out There News http://www.megastories.com/index.shtml Out There News was founded in 1996 by two experienced international correspondents, Paul Eedle and John West. Between them they covered four wars and reported from four continents in 30 years of journalism. The news site features special reports and "diary" entries from voices and sources that the mainline media so often miss. Contact Information: Email: feedback@outtherenews.com Panos Institute Media Net http://www.panosinst.org/ http://www.panosinst.org/Island/default.htm Panos' MediaNet initiative seeks to create a sustainable, electronic mechanism with which journalists working in difficult conditions or across various countries can effectively and safely assert a right to freedom of expression. A network of journalists connected both within and outside of a country adds invaluable depth and perspective to the compelling issues of the day: political, corporate, military, human rights, health, gender, judicial, environment, drugs, and corruption. Notable Feature(s): Spanish, French and kreyol versions; Caribbean and Latin American focus on environmental issues; "Island Beat" radio programs on community themes of gender, health, social justice, sustainable development, education, farming, fishing and the environment: "solutions" emphasis. Contact Information: Panos Institute in the United States 1701 K Street, NW Suite 1100 Washington, DC   20006 USA Telephone: 202.223.7949   Fax: 202.223.7947 Email: panos@cais.com Project for Excellence in Journalism (PEJ) http://www.journalism.org/ http://www.newslab.org/ The Project for Excellence in Journalism is an initiative by journalists to clarify and raise the standards of American journalism. PEJ's aim, moreover, is not primarily on diagnosing the press' problems. It is on creating initiatives that can clarify what journalism's essential role is and identify examples of good journalism around the country that personify that. Even in a new era, journalism has one responsibility other forms of communication and entertainment do not: to provide citizens with the information they need to navigate the society. Notable Feature(s): Book of Essays on best practices in journalism; daily briefings; training and educational materials; dialogue with Committee of Concerned Journalists; "NewsLab" access to Working for Excellence in Television News, including extensive links for journalists seeking information. Contact Information: Project for Excellence in Journalism 1150 18th Street NW Suite 775 Washington, DC   20036 USA Telephone: 202.293.7394   Fax: 202.293.6946 Email: mail@journalism.org Reporters Without Borders (RSF) http://www.rsf.org Reporters Without Borders' maintains its trilingual (French, English and Spanish) Web site 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. Reporters Without Borders, kept on constant alert via its network of over 100 correspondents, rigorously condemns any attack on press freedom world-wide by keeping the media and public opinion informed through press releases and public-awareness campaigns. The organisation's initiatives are carried out on five continents through its national branches (Germany, Austria, Belgium, Spain, France, the United Kingdom, Italy, Sweden and Switzerland) and its offices in Abidjan, Bangkok, Buenos Aires, Istanbul, Montreal, Nairobi, New York, Tokyo and Washington. It also works in close co-operation with local and regional press freedom organisations and with members of the "Reporters without Borders' Network," who represent Afghanistan, Argentina, Bangladesh, Myanmar ("Burma"), Cuba, Eritrea, Haiti, Peru, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Russia, Tunisia and the Ukraine. More than a third of the world's people live in countries where there is no press freedom. RSF works constantly to restore their right to be informed. Thirty-one media professionals lost their lives in 2001 for doing what they were paid to do -- keeping us informed. Today, more than 120 journalists around the world are in prison simply for doing their job. In Nepal, Eritrea and China, they can spend years in jail just for using the "wrong" word or photo. Reporters Without Borders believes imprisoning or killing a journalist is like eliminating a key witness and threatens everyone's right to be informed. It has been fighting such practices for more than 17 years. Since January 2002, when it created the Damocles Network, Reporters Without Borders acquired a judicial arm. In order to ensure that murderers and torturers of journalists are brought to trial, the Network provides victims with legal services and represents them before the competent national and international courts, so that proper judicial procedures can be implemented. Contact Information: Reporters sans frontières 5, rue Geoffroy-Marie 75009 Paris France Telephone: 33 1 44 83 84 84   Fax: 33 1 45 23 11 51 Email: rsf@rsf.org Sauvé Scholars http://www.sauvescholars.org/scholarship/ McGill University supports the Sauvé Scholars program, an opportunity for twelve highly-motivated people, under thirty, of demonstrated leadership potential or experience in journalism or in some aspect of the communication arts, to come to Montreal for nine months to research, reflect, question, and enlarge upon their understanding of the state of the world and their roles in effecting positive change. It is expected that the participants will produce material, during or immediately after their residency, to be published on the Sauvé Scholars Web site, or in a hard-copy version, for world-wide dissemination and discussion. These works may take the form of written text, photo essays, or videos. As the body of work of the Sauvé Scholars grows, the Web site will become a platform for the broadest range of critical discourse among the emerging leaders and an ever-widening audience. The electronic media make possible creative linkages with other Web vehicles for societal innovation and change. Notable Feature(s): Profiles of Sauvé Scholars and their work. Contact Information: Sauvé Scholars 1514 Avenue Drive, Penfield Montreal, Quebec   H3G 1B9 Canada Email: info@sauvescholars.org The American News Service http://www.americannews.com/ Since 1995, The American News Service has been exploring and reporting on America's Search for Solutions -- covering the thousands of innovative approaches by individuals, groups, businesses, communities and institutions to solving the problems of contemporary America. Notable Feature(s): Articles and archives available to news service subscribers. Subscribers receive up to 10 new solutions-oriented stories with contacts for sources each week, along with access to an on-line searchable archive of over 1,400 solutions stories along with thousands of contacts and their telephone numbers; links. Contact Information: The American NewsService 289 Fox Farm Rd Brattleboro, VT   05301 USA Telephone: 1.800.654.NEWS   The Big Issue http://www.bigissue.com/bigissue.html http://www.bigissue.com/foundation.html The Big Issue is an international movement, providing opportunities for people facing homelessness to help themselves. At the centre of this work is The Big Issue Magazine, a news and current affairs magazine written by professional journalists and sold on the streets by vendors looking to overcome the crises surrounding homelessness. The Big Issue aims to: Enable homeless people to earn a legal income through opportunities to help themselves; Invest profits in services to help homeless people and Big Issue vendors tackle obstacles to them helping themselves; Provide people with a voice in the media; Produce a quality magazine which engages readers with issues that affect their lives but are overlooked by other media; and Provide an example of a socially responsible business and an alternative to conventional charity as a response to homelessness. The inspiration for the magazine came from Street News, a newspaper sold by homeless people in New York, which Gordon Roddick of The Body Shop saw on a visit to the States. With the assistance of The Body Shop International, Roddick and A. John Bird launched The Big Issue in September 1991, initially as a monthly publication in London. In June 1993, The Big Issue went weekly, and regional sister titles were later established in Manchester (The Big Issue in the North), Glasgow (The Big Issue Scotland) and Cardiff (The Big Issue Cymru), Bristol (The Big Issue South West) and Birmingham (The Big Issue Midlands). Subsequently editions were also launched in Sydney - Australia, Cape Town - South Africa and Los Angeles - USA. The Big Issue is a founder member of the International Network of Street Papers (INSP), which links up similar magazines from all over the world. The Big Issue campaigns on behalf of homeless and socially excluded people. It is not part of any other media group, and guards its independence fiercely. It has no party political allegiance. Another unique feature of the magazine is Street Lights, the only public forum for homeless people's writing in the media. Notable Feature(s): International network of street newspapers. Contact Information: A. John Bird, Editor-in-Chief Telephone: 020 7526 3200   Email: editorial@bigissue.com The Digital Journalist http://digitaljournalist.org/contents.html The Digital Journalist is a multimedia magazine for photojournalism in the digital age. Dirck Halstead is the Editor and Publisher. He started in photojournalism when he was in high school. At the age of 17, Halstead became LIFE Magazine's youngest combat photographer covering the Guatemalan Civil War. (LIFE had no idea how old he was). After attending Haverford College, he went on to work for UPI for more than 15 years, covering stories around the world. In 1972 he accepted a contract for Time Magazine, and for the next 29 years covered the White House for them. In 1992 he played an instrumental part in the formation of Video News International (VNI), which started what is now the Platypus movement, allowing still photojournalists to cross the barrier between print and television. Notable Feature(s): Digital Filmmaking Forums; audio/video interviews and archives of previous issues; a collection of 51 Feature Presentations from around the world about a wide-range of issues and cultures. Contact Information: Dirck Halstead Email: dirck.halstead@pressroom.com The Hindu - India's National Newspaper http://www.hinduonnet.com/ Contact Information: Email: thehindu@vsnl.com The Hoot - Watching Media in the Subcontinent http://www.thehoot.org/index.asp The subcontinent has plenty of media, it does not have enough scrutiny of the media. The Hoot portal is the outcome of the concern felt by a group of practicing journalists at some recent trends in journalism in this part of the world. It is an attempt to revive a concern for media ethics, restore focus on development in the subcontinent, and preserve press freedom. It will attempt to hold a mirror to the way journalists practice their craft in this region. It will be devoted to examining issues of accuracy, fairness, right to information, censorship, and the responsibility of the media.. It is aimed at journalists, users of the media including lay readers and viewers, and students and teachers of journalism and communications. Notable Feature(s): Regional newspapers and other resources too numerous to detail on press freedom, media activism, media and disability, views from the region, media ethics, and more. Contact Information: Sevanti Ninan, Honorary Secretary, Media Foundation 11C Dewan Shree 30 Ferozshah Road New Delhi 11002 India Email: sevantininan@vsnl.com thehoot@rediffmail.com The Independent http://independent-bangladesh.com/ Contact Information: The Independent 32 Kazi Nazrul Islam Avenue Karwan Bazar Dhaka-1215 Bangladesh Telephone: +880.2.9129938.42   Fax: +880.2.9127722 Email: ind@citechco.net The Jakarta Post http://www.thejakartapost.com/headlines.asp Contact Information: The Jakarta Post Editorial and General Dept. Jl. Palmerah Selatan 15 Jakarta   10270 Indonesia Telephone: 62.21.5300476   Fax: 62.21.5492685 Email: editorial@thejakartapost.com The Rise of Solutions Journalism - Susan Benesh http://www.cjr.org/html/98-03-04-solutions.html Contact Information: Columbia Journalism Review Journalism Building 2950 Broadway NY, Ny   10027 USA Telephone: (212) 854-3958   Third World Network (TWN) http://www.twnside.org.sg/ The Third World Network is an independent non-profit international network of organizations and individuals involved in issues relating to development, the Third World and North-South issues. Its objectives are to conduct research on economic, social and environmental issues pertaining to the South; to publish books and magazines; to organize and participate in seminars; and to provide a platform representing broadly Southern interests and perspectives at international fora such as the UN conferences and processes. Notable Feature(s): A vast array of materials on fields of interest, including the environment, economics, human rights, health, tourism, peace and security; online access to Third World Resurgence magazine and archives. Contact Information: Third World Network 228 Macalister Road Penang   10400 Malaysia Telephone: 60.4.2266728   Fax: 60.4.2264505 Email: twn@igc.apc.org twnet@po.jaring.my TomPaine.com - A Public Interest Journal http://www.tompaine.com/ TomPaine.com is a public interest journal inspired by the great patriot Thomas Paine, author of Common Sense and The Rights of Man. Paine was a man of humble origins and modest education, but he became a writer of extraordinary skill and passion. He used his talent to advance the cause of liberty and democracy against distant and unaccountable rulers. TomPaine.com seeks to enrich the national debate on controversial public issues by featuring the ideas, opinions, and analyses too often overlooked by the mainstream media. It publishes these in regular advertisements on the Op-Ed Page of The New York Times, in other publications, and on its Web site in news and other "public goods" features. Notable Feature(s): TomPaine.com welcomes submissions. Op-ed length pieces (700 to 1,000 words) are most likely to gain favor. Review writer's guidelines at the Web site. Email articles or illustrations to submissions@tompaine.com. Please include a home address, daytime phone number, and a short biographical paragraph with each submission. Contact Information: John Moyers, Editor in Chief P.O. Box 53303 Washington, D.C.   20009 USA Email: editor@tompaine.com Toward Freedom - a progressive perspective on world events http://www.towardfreedom.com/index.htm The mission of Toward Freedom is to publish an international news, analysis and advocacy journal. TF seeks to strengthen and extend human justice and liberties in every sphere. Believing that freedom of imagination is the basis for a just world, TF opposes all forms of domination that repress human potential to reason, work creatively and dream. Notable Feature(s): Archived issues; excellent collection of links; opportunity to submit articles on human rights, social change and related topics. Contact Information: Toward Freedom Att: Editor PO Box 468 Burlington, VT   05402-0468 USA Telephone: (802) 658-2523   Fax: (802) 658-3738 Email: MavMedia@aol.com / TFmag@aol.com Why Newspapers Are Betting on Audience Participation - By Katharine Q. Seelye http://www.changemakers.net/library/temp/nyt070405.cfm This July 2005 article reports on the growing phenomenon of U.S. newspapers looking to online forums and other participatory strategies to improve their business models and community relevance. World Association of Newspapers (WAN) - Young Reader Programmes http://www.wan-press.org/rubrique.php3?id_rubrique=5 http://www.wan-press.org/index.php3 Founded in 1948, the (nonprofit/NGO) World Association of Newspapers represents 72 national newspaper associations, individual newspaper executives in 100 nations, 13 news agencies, and 9 regional press organizations. In all, WAN represents more than 18,000 publications on the five continents. The World Association of Newspapers has three major objectives: • Defending and promoting press freedom and the economic independence of newspapers as an essential condition for that freedom. • Contributing to the development of newspaper publishing by fostering communications and contacts between newspaper executives from different regions and cultures. • Promoting co-operation between its member organisations, whether national, regional or worldwide. Notable Feature(s): Fifth World Survey of Young Reader Programmes; media research, press freedom, and trade magazine links. Contact Information: Larry Kilman, Director of Communications World Association of Newspapers 7 Rue Geoffroy St. Hilaire Paris   75005 France Telephone: 33 1 47 42 85 00   Fax: 33 1 47 42 49 48 Email: contact_us@wan.asso.fr Young Media Partners Young Media Partners (YMP) is an international membership association of young journalists in broadcast, print and electronic media who are committed to using their skills to build a world of peace, social justice and equality. YMP was established as a Swiss-based not-for-profit association in 1997 with its headquarters in Geneva, a bureau in California and New York, and regional bureaus developing in many other countries. In cooperation with the United Nations, YMP's programs, projects, and productions enable young journalists to be involved in various aspects of the media and to report on issues affecting the lives of young people and others in their own local communities and worldwide. YMP offers media internships to young journalists at the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland and at its regional bureaus. Contact Information: Young Media Partners Palais des Nations, Salle de Presse 1 CH - 1211 Geneva Switzerland Telephone: 41.22/839.28.50   Fax: 41.22/840.10.25 Email: youngmedia@hotmail.com Young PRESS http://yp.takingitglobal.org/ Young PRESS is an unprecedented collaboration among more than 20 youth-run and youth-focused organizations in media, technology and education. Young PRESS is designed to provide a collaborative model to strengthen youth media and reach across the digital divide using both new and old technologies. The Young PRESS network encompasses audio, text, video and TV, including satellite and internet-based conferencing. Young PRESS was to have been launched as a Pilot Project at the United Nations General Assembly Special Session on Children and Children's Forum to be held in New York, September 16th-21st. Due the terrorist attacks on the United States, the Special Session has been indefinitely postponed. Young PRESS is therefore launching over the Internet to cover global issues from the reporting perspective of children and youth. Young PRESS is a project "in progress." Our experience over September 2001 will guide future development of the network. The Young PRESS reporting team includes young journalists from more than 30 countries including Vietnam, Guyana, Algeria, Brazil, South Africa, the United Kingdom, Democratic Republic of Congo, Macedonia, Pakistan, the Philippines, India, Canada, Japan, and Botswana. Notable Feature(s): Links of interest by topic and region. Contact Information: Telephone: 212.661.6111   Fax: 212.879.9893 Email: youngpress@youngpress.org