Becky Hogge at OpenDemocracy reports on the Reuters partnership with Global Voices:
Beyond large news agencies like Reuters, the western media are increasingly unwilling or unable to fund the correspondents needed to cover life on the vast continent - to the detriment of colour, depth and context. It is often left to enterprising and brave young stringers to make their own arrangements and ensure their own safety...Some western reporters now find their trips sponsored not by independent media outlets, but by disaster-led international NGOs. A veteran of the continent once communicated her wariness at this new set-up to me, expressing concern over the abundance of tragic images it produces for the audience back home.
Responding to the belief by some that blogs lack the ability to adequately cover the continent,Rachel Rawlins, stated that the partnership:
"demonstrates the increasing value placed by news organisations on the ability of authentic voices to provide perspective, background and context to the events they cover." But she recognizes that the value this provides is only nascent.
via Global Voices
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