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November 21, 2018

Guidelines for first-hand reporting

While GV is mostly a second-hand reporting site, we do sometimes engage in first-hand reporting. Here are a few things to bear in mind when you're reporting a story first-hand.

August 8, 2017

New GV Feature: Contributor Achievements!

Written by Jer Clarke · Design

Hi GV Community, we're launching a small new feature on the GV sites and I wanted to send out a warning because the feature will be sending you email and...

August 3, 2017

Facebook Sharing Woes: Using the URL Debugger to fix post metadata

Written by Jer Clarke · Design

Lena Nitsche Hey everyone. Question: Since a couple of days Facebook isn't showing the thumbnail pictures of posts I want to share on the GV German Facbeook account. Any tips...

July 18, 2017

Instagram Embeds on GV: Updated Guides

Written by Jer Clarke · Design

Hi all, quick post to point out that I've reviewed and updated the Instagram embedding guidelines for GV sites. It's nothing too wild, but there has been some confusion and...

March 16, 2017

GV Has Taglines On Posts Now?

Written by Jer Clarke · Design

Here at Global Voices Tech HQ (my apartment) we try to avoid overloading the editing process for GV posts with a million steps and processes because we don't want you to...

February 24, 2017

Facebook Instant Articles Are Live on GV: What you need to know

Written by Jer Clarke · Announcements

Greetings Earthling Voices! As we promised in our format test post Facebook Instant Articles, the nebulous publishing tool that makes our posts ultra fast for mobile Facebook visitors, is now...

March 8, 2016

Translator Newsletter: Small Languages, Memes, and More!

Written by Marianna Breytman · Community

Hello, GV'ers! Welcome to this week's edition of the Translator Newsletter! Today we're talking about… The Ups & Downs of Freelancing Since many of us are freelancers, we know that...

December 10, 2015

Lingua Tech: Multiple authors per-post is here!

Written by Jer Clarke · Design

As promised in my last post about changes to credits display on Lingua, today we are launching a whole new feature across GV: The option to set more than one...

June 30, 2015

Geolocating Global Voices: Add your stories to the map!

Written by Jer Clarke · Design

The geolocation feature has been working on this site (GV Community) since we launched it, but has been notably missing from the rest of the GV family of sites. The...

May 23, 2015

The First GV Türkçe Meetup Ever

Written by Ortaç Oruç · Community

After a long period of time, Turkish Lingua has been making progress. It took a lot effort and time to set up the Lingua all over. Almost all the translations in...