Global Information Network
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'Global Information Network, Ltd., or Global Information Network (acronym GIN), incorporated in 1986, is an independent, New York domestic non-profit news organization with an office in New York City specializing in gathering and disseminating news from reporters in the field in Africa. It supplies in-depth news, analyses, and features with a developing world perspective to over 300 ethnic and minority newsweeklies nationwide. Its stories have appeared in print, broadcast and web media in the U.S. for more than 20 years. Its Executive Director is Lisa Vives.
The Inter Press Service (IPS), a distinguished international newswire comprised of distinguished journalists, academics, communications experts and specialists in international cooperation, that spotlights the developing world, is a major news partner of GIN.
On a daily basis, IPS produces independent news and analysis about events and global processes affecting the economic, social and political development of peoples and nations. The flagship World Service of the agency presently covers over 150 countries and is produced in English and Spanish, with selected stories translated into eleven languages. The daily output is currently around 112000 words. In addition to the news service, IPS provides a radio service and a columnist service, which provides exclusive columns written by statesmen/women, officials, opposition leaders and opinion-makers who offer insight on a broad range of issues and events. Columnists have included Kofi Annan, the Dalai Lama, Bill Clinton, Mikhail Gorbachev and others. The trustees of the IPS include such distinguished luminaries as Boutros Boutros-Ghali (former UN Secretary General), Martti Ahtisaari (former President of Finland), I.K. Gujral (former Prime Minister of India) and Mario Soares (former President of Portugal).
Stories written for GIN have been picked up by IPS, and have been featured as lead articles on the IPS home page (www.ipsnews.net) and been distributed across the world, and translated into different languages, on United Nations journals, radio stations in Latin America, Africa and Asia, and hundreds of international publications reaching a potential audience that numbers in the several million.
In addition to its role as news distributor, GIN produces a weekly Africa News Briefs bulletin and is a monthly host of African roundtable conferences that present well-known human rights journalists honored by organizations such as the Committee to Protect Journalists, PEN, the international writers' organization and The UN Human Rights Committee.
The mission of the GIN news service is to increase the perspectives available to readers in North America and to bring into their view information about global issues that are overlooked or under-reported by mainstream media.
Lisa Vives, Executive Director, Global Information Network, 146 West 29th Street, Suite 7E, New York, NY 10001, www.globalinfo.org, 212-244-3123 (voice), 212-244-3522 (fax)
GLOBAL INFORMATION NETWORK distributes news and feature articles on Africa and the developing world to mainstream, alternative, ethnic and minority-owned outlets in the U.S. and Canada. Our goal is to increase the perspectives available to readers in North America and to bring into their view information about global issues that are overlooked or under-reported by mainstream media.
