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December 2004
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Ammannet and the Future of Radio
By Ethan Zuckerman, Worldchanging.com
In 1999, Jordan was a country where it was easier to find accurate news about domestic issues from newspapers in neighboring nations, so Palestinian journalist, activist, and media blogger Daoud Kattab founded Ammannet, the Arab world's first online radio station. Inspired by the American non-profit media watchdog group Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR), Ammannet provides its readers with links to newspapers all over the Arab world, giving them access to information and criticism from which they'd otherwise be barred. And it's all done under the banner of pan-Arab unity. -- Elizabeth Dwoskin
http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/001693.html

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'If we can't talk about people, we'll talk about dogs,' says Aggressive Little Snake, the creator of Dog Newspaper, a Chinese blog that was the jury prize winner at the Deutsche Welle International Weblog Awards 2004. Guido Baumhauer, who created this, the first international blog competition, says there were a larger number of entries from Latin America and Spain than from the US, and that 'the global perspective of the competition can set it apart from other contests.' Which is no doubt why some 60,000 voters applauded Dog Newspaper, which not only details the treatment of dogs in China and other countries in the developing world, but serves as a powerful metaphor for how those same countries often treat other human beings. -- Elizabeth Dwoskin
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