Reuters teams up with blogger network
Posted by
Martin Stabe
on 13 April 2006 at 11:44
Tags: Blogs, International, Journalism, Reuters
Reuters has made a donation to the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University which will allow Global Voices Online, the international network of bloggers based at the university, to hire a full-time editor.
A statement from the newsagency said that the move was part of “efforts to invite a wider set of voices and viewpoints into the news discussion”.
Reuters says it will make material from Global Voices available on its websites.
Rebecca MacKinnon, the former CNN correspondent in Asia who is one of the co-Founder of Global Voices, said she hopes the partnership with Reuters will enable interaction between perspectives coming from citizen and professional journalists.
“We believe that bloggers and journalists share a common goal of informing an engaged global citizenry,” she said in a statement distributed by Reuters.
Tags: Blogs, International, Journalism, Reuters
