Inside Source is our regular audio journal on the events and people making the news in the Sourcefabric community. Expect news and views on open source media, independent journalism, innovative broadcasting and a variety of stories from all four corners of the globe.


Inside Source

Welcome to Inside Source #1, our regular audio journal on the events and people making the news in the Sourcefabric community.

This week we'll travel to Belarus to get the inside story on the Revolution Through Social Networks movement. Is it simply playful protest or is this the beginning of the end for Lukashenko's era?

We'll also stop in at El Periodico, a newspaper in Guatemala, to look at the dangers of something most journalists take for granted – putting their name to a story.

Finally, we end up in Dakar, Senegal for a report on the economic empowerment offered to women through microfinance.

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Inside Source #1: Belarus's silent revolution

Inside Source is our regular audio journal on the events and people making the news in the Sourcefabric community.

This week we hear from Guatemalan journalist and open source advocate Claudia Cruz on what's been making the headlines in the Central American country recently.

Khombole in Senegal is the site of a promising new initiative to promote safe motherhood. We get the lowdown on the project from Sheriff Bojang Junior. 

Finally, we speak with WADR about our recent Knight-Batten Award for Innovations in Journalism and what it means for other radio stations around the world.

Inside Source #2: Dispatches from Guatemala and Khombole

Inside Source is our regular audio journal on the events and people making the news worldwide.
We're in Tbilisi, capital of Georgia, to talk with Eka Chitanava, a journalist working with Liberali - one of the country's few independent news outlets.
Eka tells us about some remarkable accusations of espionage upon the president's photographer, May's clashes between police and journalists, media training in the country and what's next for the evolution of Georgian reporting. Photograph credit: Flickr | Mortsan CC BY 2.0


Inside Source #3: Espionage and journalistic excellence in Georgia

We're in Tbilisi, capital of Georgia, to talk with Eka Chitanava, a journalist working with Liberali - one of the country's few independent news outlets.

Eka tells us about her first assignment - covering the conflict with Russia in 2008 - and investigations into the post-war settlements that sprung up around the capital afterwards. She also talks about he growing gap between rich and poor and whether she's hopeful for the future of independent media in Georgia.

Inside Source, is our regular audio journal on the events and people making the news in the Sourcefabric community.

Inside Source #4: A young person's guide to reporting on conflict in Georgia

Mediafabric, a one day conference on news media, will take place on October 21st 2011 in Prague. Speakers include former MI5-agent Annie Machon, Nepali Times founder Kunda Dixit and Leo Prieto, founder of the most popular Spanish-speaking blog in the world.

http://conference.sourcefabric.org

With ten presentations taking the form of "visual essays", the conference aims to return to the roots of journalism with concise focuses on the what, who, why, when and where of contemporary news media. 

Speakers include Annie Machon, who was an intelligence officer for MI5 in the 1990s before leaving to become a media sensation with her whistleblowing. Mariano Blejman has built software to automatically extract data from the crime documents of Argentina's last military dictatorship. Kunda Dixit is one of Nepal's leading journalists and editors (founder editor of  Nepali Times) and an international authority on the press in Asia. Leo Prieto pioneered the web design industry in Chile and is the founder of FayerWayer, the most popular blog in the Spanish-speaking world.﻿

Inside Source #5: Mediafabric Conference Special

 David Ainsworth, the Information Officer for the Convention on Biological Diversity speaks on the loss of biodiversity

David Ainsworth, the Information Officer for the Convention on Biological Diversity speaks the loss of biodiversity as the world celebrates earthday

Azeenarh Mohammed is a Nigerian social media journalist, commentator, blogger and star. She's also a bad poetry lover, horse enthusiast, food addict and adrenaline junkie.

Here she talks to Sourcefabric's Adam Thomas (the two worked together on ecojournalism.org) about the #occupynigeria movement one year on, plus a new environmental movement that's capturing the imaginations of social networks, both online and offline.

(Music kindly loaned by Cathode. Field Recordings by Adam Thomas, in Lagos)

Adam Thomas interviews Nigerian activist Azeenarh Mohammed

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