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WEBThe Global Climate Justice Fellowship partners independent Sinophone journalists and journalists from Central Asia, Francophone Africa, and Latin America to assess the role of China in mitigating the global climate crisis. Protecting digital rights and freedom of expression online through research, reporting, and advocacy.
With Ukraine’s Kyiv Post shut down, journalists launch new …
WEBNov 30, 2021 · Kyiv Post, Ukraine's top English-language newspaper that had operated for over 25 years, suddenly stopped operations on November 8, 2021. On the day, a cryptic update appeared on the newspaper's website, titled “Kyiv Post closes on Nov 8 for a short time.” In the update, owner Adnan Kivan thanked the newsroom team for their service and said he “hope[d] to reopen the newspaper bigger and ...
An interview with Roger Robinson, winner of the 2019 T.S. Eliot …
WEBFeb 14, 2020 · Photo by Naomi Woodis, used with permission. On January 13, 2020, Trinidadian-British poet Roger Robinson won the T.S. Eliot Prize for Poetry for his poetry collection “A Portable Paradise.”. The T.S. Eliot Prize honours “the best collection of new verse in English first published in the UK or the Republic of Ireland.”.
‘Your’dle: Wordle is now available in many of the world’s languages
WEBFeb 2, 2022 · Screenshot from video by CBS Sunday Morning. Wordle, the minimalist online game taking the world by storm, first entered our lexicon in October 2021. That was when Josh Wardle, a Brooklyn, NY-based software engineer, decided to make the game available to the public. Wardle initially designed the word-guessing puzzle as …
Community pantries inspire hope amid pandemic and economic …
WEBMay 5, 2021 · A community-initiated food bank, established to serve the hungry amid the pandemic and its economic fallout, has inspired various mutual aid efforts across the Philippines. More popularly known locally as “community pantries”, these food banks are spaces on the sidewalks or in plazas where people contribute food and other necessities to …
How ‘Yasuke’ offers a new perspective on the history and current ...
WEBJul 12, 2021 · Netflix's new series, “Yasuke,” has brought the history of the African samurai — and that of Africans in Japan in general — to public attention. The real-life Yasuke was an African who arrived in Japan in the 16th century, as a bodyguard to a Jesuit emissary. In 1579, after impressing Oda Nobunaga, the de facto ruler of Japan, Yasuke was invited to serve the warlord as a military ...
Meet the Filipino Scientist Who Invented the Videophone in 1954
WEBOn March 30, 2016, the Philippine National Academy of Science and Technology (NAST) posted on Facebook a photo from 1954 of Filipino engineer Gregorio Y. Zara demonstrating his latest invention: a two-way television telephone, or videophone, patented as a “photo phone signal separator network.”. The post quickly became popular especially ...
TIME Magazine chooses Barbados Prime Minister Mia Mottley as …
WEBMay 23, 2022 · “The choice of my public life has been to be a lawyer, an advocate, as well as to be a representative of the people.” Her fierce, determined advocacy for the Caribbean at COP 26 made Barbados Prime Minister Mia Mottley far more than a champion of the region; it cemented her place in the global consciousness as a forward-thinking leader and change maker, and no doubt contributed to TIME ...
False and Fabricated News: Resources - NewsFrames
WEBThe problem of false or fabricated information brings up the challenge of verification among others. Here are a few sites that we have found helpful or interesting: Case studies from Bellingcat include a guide to reverse image search on YouTube videos. First Draft News offers a number of resources related to social newsgathering and verification.
Twitter Space: What’s next for the Aragalaya movement in Sri Lanka?
WEBDec 18, 2022 · Global Voices launched a Twitter Space on Thursday, August 4, to discuss the political unrest in Sri Lanka from March to July 2022, the nation's economic crisis, and the pro-democracy Aragalaya movement.. Find part one of the recording here and part two here.. The Twitter Space was moderated by Global Voices’ South Asia Editor Rezwan from Dhaka, Bangladesh and assisted by GV’s Associate ...