Posts from October, 2014
Elections and Culture
My first post for Global Voices was technically not my first post. I had written on my blog, medeamaterial, a post about a music festival in downtown San Jose, Costa Rica, and David Sasaki, who was then the Latin America Editor, contacted me about reposting my article. I was interested...
Spring: how the Arab one induced mine..
It was quite weird reading an e-mail asking me to write something about my first encounter with GV. It's weird because of the timing. Just yesterday, and out of the blue, i was squeezing my brain, trying to remember how i got to know about GV. i couldn't,and i still...
My Lesson on Dignity
When I started to volunteer as a translator for Global Voices, I had already been a keen reader for years. My first translation has been a quick read by Rami “A Lesson on Dignity from Syria“. When I looked up my first translation and it turned out to be that...
Girls Activist of Kyrgyzstan and Global Voices
I started working in media sphere in my 13 years old, now I am 16. My experience I started from citizen journalism and then started intrested in political systemof goverment and write for mass media in Kyrgyzstan. For three years of news producing at Kloop Media Foundation. I had accumulated...
And my Inbox would never be the same!
Where to start? How to start? My first post, my first translation, my first encounter? So many things to tell .. So in a way this post is a recollection of events not necessarily related with one another I apologize is the [post is so disorganized and chaotic.. but then...
How I met Global Voices
I first encountered Global Voices in 2006. At the time, I was writing for a blog focusing on curious, social issues that were overlooked by mainstream medi, and Global Voices quickly became one of my preferred sources of inspiration, links, ideas. Several years later, in 2012, when I left India...
How Global Voices Changed My Life
I have been delivering this story of my encounter with Global Voices for 10 years, but I feel excited every time I talk about it. Back in 2005, I was a graduate student majoring in Journalism who found himself lost in the terrible performance of media industry in Taiwan. I...
Global Voices, um lugar que cheguei para ficar
O meu nome completo é Dércio Ernesto João Tsandzana, de nacionalidade moçambicana, resido actualmente na capital do país, Maputo. Tenho um percurso académico brilhante não tendo atrasado em nenhum nível anterior até a esta parte. Escrevo actualmente artigos de opinião para o maior jornal de circulação em Moçambique, Jornal notícias;...
GV: Sharing Home stories with the World
I am proud and honored to be a Global Voices contributor. When Ndesanjo Macha the Sub-Saharan Editor contacted me and said that I had been selected as a contributor many months after I had applied, I was extremely excited but I was not sure whether I was confident enough to...
Lingua Russian: how it started
"I fell in love with Global Voices more than 5 years ago. As everything wonderful in this life, it happened by accident." - writes Ekaterina Golubina about the start of Global Voices in Russian.
