Stories about Community
September 19, 2018
Tips for New Translators — Part 3: Slang and Social Media
Social media has to do with shared experiences, which are very difficult to translate. One must really have a grasp of the context.
September 18, 2018
Remembering Boukary
Follow along this week on GV Instagram as Claire posts images commemorating the life and work of our late community member Boukary Konate.
September 3, 2018
Tips for New Translators: Part 2 — Metalanguage and Word Order
(Editor's note — This post is the second in the three-part series: Tips for New Translators.) Understanding metalanguage Foundations of Translation was my first course in the Translations Studies program...
Tips for New Translators — Part 1: Pretranslation and Context
I want to share with new translators the tips and tools, as well as my mistakes, so that your translations are not only correct, but accurate!
July 16, 2018
Global Voices partners with Magdalene, Indonesia's feminist online magazine
Global Voices is honored to announce its partnership with Indonesian feminist online magazine Magdalene. The Jakarta-based magazine has been the voice of feminists, as well as pluralists and progressives since...
July 14, 2018
What [I believe] we are, and what [I think] we do [best]
I’ve been a proud GVer for 10 years. During that time, I decided to make my thesis with GV as the main field of work, something that took a lot...
June 8, 2018
Discussion, Drawing and Delight at the Francophone GV Meet Up May 2018 in Lyon
GV francophone meet up in Lyon, France on the 26 & 27 of May
May 12, 2018
Happy 10th Anniversary to Lingua Russian!
The very first Russian translation of a GV post was published on April 30, 2008.
May 4, 2018
Pressing ‘Pause’ on NewsFrames
As we pause the NewsFrames project, the team takes a moment to reflect upon the past year and a half.
Pressing ‘Play’ on NewsFrames
As our earlier post shared, we will need to pause overall starting in June as we consider the NewsFrames project moving forward. But we do have ideas about the future....
Meet Global Voices’ Community Council!
Recent comments
Community Council Issue Paper 1: Topics and Focus
In this poll, we ask: Should GV be open to all topics? Or should we...
I believe that the general format of GV should stay the same. That means that...
What we do & how we do it: two issues for discussion by the Community...
Every news site struggles with presenting many streams of content. I think subscribing to the...
Not yet. Putting that on my to-do list.
I want to begin my comment with the obvious disclaimer that I've been absent from...
Beautiful images. So moving. Merci Claire
Thank you very much, Claire!