Showing posts with label Global Voice Online. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Global Voice Online. Show all posts

Monday, September 24, 2012

CALL: Global Voices Seeks Caucasus Editor (globalvoicesonline.org)

(globalvoicesonline.org) Global Voices (GV) is seeking a part-time Editor to oversee our ongoing coverage of citizen media in the Caucasus.

The Editor will direct Caucasus coverage and recruit and coordinate volunteer contributions. The Editor will produce and/or edit several in-depth stories per week, as well as shorter posts linking and pointing to important topics, events, and writing as it occurs. The work will involve translation, analysis, and editing, to elucidate and identify trends, ideas, and social and political currents about the region's citizen media.

The Editor will be chiefly responsible for providing as broad and complete coverage as possible of citizen media of the Caucasus, as follows:

Recruiting: recruiting authors to cover the countries in their region; for managing authors’ output and editing and publishing posts; and maintaining a regional Google Group.

Posting to the Global Voices web site:

2-3 posts per week. These can either be written by volunteer authors or the Editor, in recognition of the fact that some posts (especially those which need to be translated) require substantial editing.
3-5 “updates” per week. These posts can also either be written by volunteer authors or the Editor. They are short and typically include only one link.
Special coverage: In times of emergency, posting as much as possible, as soon as possible, as needed.

Interested candidates please send CV and Letter of Interest explaining why you'd be a good candidate for the job to: adminjob@globalvoicesonline.org

We will be accepting applications through October 15, 2012.

See our vacancies page for other current opportunities with Global Voices.

Saturday, May 14, 2011

BLOG-MEDIA: South Caucasus Media Conference

New media - New Opportunities of Communication In the Region

Congress Hotel, Picasso Hall
Yerevan, Armenia
19 May 2011, 14.00 - 18.00
AGENDA

13.45 – 14.00 Registration

14.00 - 14.30 Opening Session
Suren Deheryan, president of Journalists for the Future

14.30 - 15.30 First Session - Alternative resources for media: the potential and dangers

Moderator: Samvel Martirosyan, Information Security Expert

Speakers: Gregory Shvedov, Editor-in-chief of the Internet news agency Caucasian Knot

Onnik Krikorian, Caucasus Editor for Global Voices Online


15.30 - 16.00 First Session Discussion

16.00 - 16.15 Coffee break

16.15 - 17.15 Second Session – International Experience of Online Broadcasting. Prospects for
the South Caucasus Countries


Moderator: Ashot Melikyan, Chairman of “Committee to Protect Freedom of Expression”

Speakers: Robert Parsons, Director General of Canal PIK
Manana Aslamazyan, Representative of Internews Network in Armenia


17.15 - 17.45 Second Session Discussion

17:45 – Closing Remarks

The conference is being organized within the framework of the “New Media Workshops for Media Society” project. It is implemented with the financial support of the Social Transformation Program (Matra) of the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands and the OSCE Office in
Yerevan.

Tuesday, January 11, 2011

BLOG: Georgia: Policeman fired after being identified on Facebook (theyounggeorgians.wordpress.com)

Also posted on Global Voices

More than dozen veterans of Georgia’s wars in Abkhazia and South Ossetia began a hunger strike on December 27 demanding that the government address their social problems and restore their medical discounts. Camping out in front of a monument to fallen soldiers on Tbilisi’s Heroes Square, the ex-soldiers said that they would anyway leave on 6 January, the date of the Georgian Orthodox Christmas Eve.

full text with youtube-videos >>>

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US Ambassador expresses his concern over Heroes' Square events
source: georgiamediacentre.com

The US Ambassador to Georgia has said the police should not have used force against the protestors on 3 January when they violently broke up a peaceful and lawful protest by veterans of Georgia's wars of the 1990s' in Tbilisi's central Heroes' Square.
John Bass has proved to be rather more robust in his commentary on Georgian matters than his predecessor, John Tefft, but his words today were unusually strong - essentially saying the police's behaviour, which has been strongly defended by the Georgian government, was incompatible with any Georgian claim to be a democracy:
I want to respond to the events that took place on the heroes’ square that I’ve been observing for 2-3 days. I’m concerned that police used force against the protesters. Force must not be used against protesters. This must not be taking place in a democratic country. I’m glad Georgia’s public Defender released a statement and adequately assessed the happening. I hope it will be investigated and the present video material will be given a special attention
The video evidence (was attached - but the video has now been deleted from YouTube) appears to show leather jacketed young men - who we must assume are interior ministry employees - roughly handling and punching older men. Uniformed patrol policemen also handle them roughly but there is less evidence that they threw punches. The veterans were granted permission to hold their protest and had reportedly complied with requests to remove tents and bedding from the war memorial itself.
The veterans say they were attacked by the police shortly after President Saakashvili drove past the protest and the allegation is that the president personally ordered the unlawful assault.
Update: As the accuracy of IPN's report of the ambassador's statement has been questioned in the comments (below) we are pleased to note that the US embassy has issued it's
own statement. They quote the ambassador as saying:
I am disturbed by the reports of violence committed by the police against protesters. That type of violence does not have a place in democratic societies. I was pleased to see the Public Defenders' statement on those specific incidents and his concerns about the extent to which these actions were inconsistent with Georgian law. We hope for and expect there will be a full investigation of these allegations, including a close examination of what appears to be some good video evidence of potential police violence.
They further quote him as stating:
"All of our societies have places that are hallowed ground and there needs to be appropriate respect for that place and yet at the same time respect for freedom of speech and freedom of assembly, so that people have a legitimate right to protest and express opinions in appropriate places.
"In the United States, the freedom of assembly does not mean anyone can assemble anytime, anywhere and certainly within the scope of national monuments, respecting our war dead, people who sacrificed for our countries. We have restrictions on who can protest and where; those are clearly spelled out and I think part of the challenge here may be that it was not well understood and well publicized for all citizens of Georgia to understand necessarily what the rules were regarding the memorial at Heroes' Square."


Relevant content:
Other content on the site that is relevant
Otar Gvenetadze reportedly sacked - but will he be prosecuted?
NGOs call for condemnation of state violence against protestors
How the Saakashvili regime treats its veterans
Video: Saakashvili's thug punches woman in the face
Storm over police attack on veterans protest continues to build

Friday, October 16, 2009

PHOTOREPORTAGE: An Azeri village in Georgia / Un villaggio azero in Georgia (osservatoriobalcani.org)

Our correspondents from Baku and Yerevan, Arzu Geybullayeva and Onnik Krikorian, visited an ethnic Azeri village in Karajala, eastern Georgia. A photo-reportage[...]The full article accompanied by photos and video is at: www.osservatoriobalcani.org

Un villaggio azero in GeorgiaI nostri corrispondenti da Baku e Yerevan, Arzu Geybullayeva e Onnik Krikorian, sono stati a Karajala, in un villaggio etnicamente azero nella Georgia orientale. Un fotoreportageThe full article accompanied by photos and video is at: www.osservatoriocaucaso.org

---Also see:
http://globalvoicesonline.org
http://frontlineclub.com/blogs/onnikkrikorian/2009/09
http://flyingcarpetsandbrokenpipelines.blogspot.com/2009/10

---The Global Voices Online post is also available in Spanish, Chinese and Bangla.

Saturday, April 11, 2009

REPORT: Citizen media and the Tbilisi protests. By Onnik Krikorian. (frontlineclub.com)

We've heard a lot about the use of social networking sites and services such as Twitter and Facebook by political activists in the past week, but opposition protests in Georgia have also shown that they are valuable tools in the hands of student and professional journalists alike.
As an editor for
Global Voices Online, a site which monitors and aggregates social media and blogs, had it not been for an online project to report on the protests, as well as the presence of fellow Frontline Club bloggers, things would have been very different indeed.
Despite lagging behind Armenia and Azerbaijan in terms of the quality and quantity of blogs, the work of the
GIPA Journalism School in Tbilisi, as well as that of Matthew Collin and Guy Degen, set new standards for the use of citizen media in the region during times of political upheaval.

full article >>>

Thursday, April 09, 2009

NEW BLOG: Georgia: April 9 protest coverage (caucasusreports.wordpress.com)

posted by Onnik Krokorian

As part of an online project, the GIPA Journalism School Blog will be covering tomorrow's planned opposition protest in Tbilisi. In the first post, Sako's Blog says that most residents of the Georgian capital are unhappy with the president, Mikhail Saakashvili, but will not necessarily participate in the protests.

Monday, March 02, 2009

BLOG: Dollar-Problems in Armenia. Posted by Onnik Krikorian.

Armenia: No dollars in Yerevan

Life in the Armenian Diaspora reports that panicked citizens have been converting their local currency so frantically that there are now no dollars to be found at exchanges in the Armenian capital, Yerevan. The blog blames the artificial manipulation of the Armenian dram to benefit government-linked importers.

Armenia: Dollar Panic

The Armenian Observer reports that many in the country are rushing to change their local currency into dollars and limits have been introduced at currency exchanges.

Wednesday, February 25, 2009

INTERNET: Azerbaijan: Popular Website “Temporarily” Closed (blog.amnestyusa.org)

First they came after dissenting newspapers such as Realni Azerbaijan. Then they came after foreign broadcasts such as BBC and Radio Free Europe. Now, just weeks before the March 18, 2009 constitutional referendum that would institute unlimited presidency, the government of Azerbaijan is allegedly censoring the content of a popular and semi-independent website, www.day.az. In the words of Global Voices Online:

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NATURE: Armenia: Illegal hunting in nature reserve exposed (globalvoicesonline.org)

Illustrating how online activism could make a difference in Armenia, a YouTube video of a chief forester hunting wild boar at the Khosrov nature reserve has resulted in his dismissal.

On February 6, 2009, YouTube user TugUrartu posted the video with the following description >>>

Saturday, December 27, 2008

LETTER FROM FACEBOOK: Global Voices Online » A Review of Global Voices in 2008

By Onnik Krikorian

Nearly 3 million people visited Global Voices in 2008. At times of natural disasters or conflicts, our traffic peaks - often with readers who are trying to figure out what's going on in their home countries from abroad, or simply curious people who are trying to understand global events from a local perspective.

Global Voices regional editors have written roundups of the last year of posts in their regions. You can find them on the Best of 2008 special coverage page, and even add your own favorite posts to our public Google map. Global Voices' executive director, Ivan Sigal, has also written an organizational overview of what we've accomplished. And our media archive is always a good indicator of what the world likes us for.

Want to know what our most read posts were in 2008?

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South Ossetia, Russia and Georgia - War

The international media were taken by surprise when violence erupted between Georgia and Russia in August over South Ossetia. On Global Voices, Onnik Krikorian reported quickly from blogs of the region before most journalists had even made their way there, earning links and praise from the New York Times, CNN, Reuters, and others, along with Veronica Khoklova, Elia Varela Serra, and others from Global Voices who helped cover the conflict through citizen media.

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There were numerous other authors and stories that deserve mention for their posts in 2008 (our Special Coverage section should give you an indication of how busy everyone has been). Global Voices depends on the daily posts of more than 150 authors and translators all over the world - and even more so the thousands of bloggers worldwide who are relaying their daily thoughts and experiences for all to read. [...]

Happy new year, and please keep reading!

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The full post of the review is here >>>