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Global Voices Gathers Information From Citizens All Over the Globe [1]
['Jennifer Preston']
Date: 2011-03-14 00:00:00

Clay Shirky, a professor at New York University and author of “Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations,” said that one of the most important roles that Global Voices has played is translating online content for an international audience.

“This started with the idea to provide broader coverage,” he said. “It turns out that it is much more critical than they had imagined because the other international news sources are being dismantled.”

In addition to news from Japan and the continuing coverage of the rebellion in Libya and violence in Yemen, the site includes stories about the growing influence of online communities on Russian politics, the developing political crisis in the Ivory Coast and International Women’s Day in Colombia. There was also a report from South Korea about why so many people online were discussing a 26-year-old actress who committed suicide in March 2009 and left 50 letters, just made public, listing the people she said had exploited and abused her.

But the unceasing tumult in the Middle East and North Africa in recent weeks has dominated the platform. It has meant 18-hour days for Ms. Hussaini, whose work is now followed closely on the site and on Twitter by journalists from traditional media organizations, including Andy Carvin of NPR, who has been regularly curating and publishing posts on Twitter, creating a news wire about the unrest in the region for weeks.

She spent 12 years working as a news editor for an English-language paper in Bahrain before volunteering at Global Voices as a blogger in 2005. She became editor for the region in 2006 and knows it well. Still, she said that she was caught by surprise that the turmoil across the Middle East unfolded not far from her home in Bahrain.

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