Global Voices Podcast

Journalists and researchers from five countries discuss press freedom

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This week, we did something different. As part of our special coverage on press freedom, we interviewed five people about press freedom in their countries to get a sense of what are the challenges the media face in different parts of the world. We spoke to Fernanda Jaramillo, an independent journalist from Colombia, Raksha Kumar, a journalist and researcher from India, Wijayanto, a press freedom researcher from Indonesia, Vivian Wu, veteran Chinese journalist, and Jovana Presic, a journalist with a fact-checking organisation in Serbia.

The Global Voices Podcast brings you local news from all over the world. Each week, insiders from our community share what news matters more in their communities and how they build their stories out of the local context. Listen now for your weekly dose of global news in local voices.

If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe and tell your friends about us! You can follow us on Twitter. The music in this podcast is from the track “Voyage” by NikMartken, from our extended Global Voices community.

Editor and contributors tell us stories from their regions

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This week we're joined by three people who are working to rejuvenate their traditional languages and bring them into the digital world. Amrit Sufi in India, Jhonnaten Rangel in Mexico, and Ọmọ Yoòbá in Nigeria research, write and collaborate the help their languages enter digital spaces. Listen to their stories and find out why we need this important work.

The Global Voices Podcast brings you local news from all over the world. Each week, insiders from our community share what news matters more in their communities and how they build their stories out of the local context. Listen now for your weekly dose of global news in local voices.

If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe and tell your friends about us! You can follow us on Twitter. The music in this podcast is from the track “Voyage” by NikMartken, from our extended Global Voices community.

Editor and contributors tell us stories from their regions

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This week, we take a deep dive into research from the Civic Media Observatory, where Daria Dergacheva tells us about the CMO's analysis of Vkontakte, a Russia-only social network. The research looked at how, in one of the few “public” spaces left to Russians in Russia, members responded to posts about the war, and terms and iconography associated with it. In a follow up post to the analysis discussed here, the CMO looked at how Ukrainians were using the same site to inform Russians about the war.

The Global Voices Podcast brings you local news from all over the world. Each week, insiders from our community share what news matters more in their communities and how they build their stories out of the local context. Listen now for your weekly dose of global news in local voices.

If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe and tell your friends about us! You can follow us on Twitter. The music in this podcast is from the track “Voyage” by NikMartken, from our extended Global Voices community.

Editor and contributors tell us stories from their regions

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Shanghai Skyline by Keith Marshall. Used under a CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 license.

This week we start in Pakistan, where GV contributor Umaima Ahmed tells us what has been happening to the government over the past two weeks, and why former Prime Minister Imran Khan is protesting the streets. We then go to Shanghai, where East Asia Editor Oiwan Lam tells us why the zero COVID-19 policy and its attendant lockdown is making life untenable for the 26 million residents of the city. Finally, Associate Editor Sydney Allen joins us to introduce Green Voices, GV's environment focused coverage.

The Global Voices Podcast brings you local news from all over the world. Each week, insiders from our community share what news matters more in their communities and how they build their stories out of the local context. Listen now for your weekly dose of global news in local voices.

If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe and tell your friends about us! You can follow us on Twitter. The music in this podcast is from the track “Voyage” by NikMartken, from our extended Global Voices community.

Editor and contributors tell us stories from their regions

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This week, we speak to Nanjala Nyabola, Advox Director, and she tells us about Advox's latest research project: Unfreedom Monitor. The Unfreedom Monitor is a project to analyse, document, and report on the growing phenomenon of the use of digital communications technology to advance authoritarian governance. Researchers are examining 11 countries — Brazil, Ecuador, Egypt, India, Morocco, Myanmar, Russia, Sudan, Tanzania, Turkey and Zimbabwe — and four cross-cutting themes concerning digital authoritarianism to develop an approach that can be used across contexts — data governance, speech, access, information. You can find the briefing report here.

The Global Voices Podcast brings you local news from all over the world. Each week, insiders from our community share what news matters more in their communities and how they build their stories out of the local context. Listen now for your weekly dose of global news in local voices.

If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe and tell your friends about us! You can follow us on Twitter. The music in this podcast is from the track “Voyage” by NikMartken, from our extended Global Voices community.

Editor and contributors tell us stories from their regions

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“Wilbur May African Artifacts” by www78 is used under a CC BY-NC 2.0 license.

This episode starts in Japan, where Japan editor Nevin Thompson tells us about the complicated geopolitical path Japan is walking in the crisis of Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Then we head to the continent of Africa, where Sub-Saharan Africa Njeri Wangari talks about the debate around the return of African cultural heritage and how it should also include audiovisual archives. We finish up in Turkey where Turkey and South Caucuses editor Arzu Gebullayeva explains the history of Turkey's frosty relationship with neighbor Armenia.

The Global Voices Podcast brings you local news from all over the world. Each week, insiders from our community share what news matters more in their communities and how they build their stories out of the local context. Listen now for your weekly dose of global news in local voices.

If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe and tell your friends about us! You can follow us on Twitter. The music in this podcast is from the track “Voyage” by NikMartken, from our extended Global Voices community.

Editor and contributors tell us stories from their regions

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“Sri Lanka Colombo” by Mal B. Used under a CC BY-ND 2.0 license.

Today's episode explores the reception that the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have had in the Caribbean, including protests and demands for reparations, followed by a look at the financial crisis in Sri Lanka. We end with the stories of disabled Latina women and their experience of the pandemic.

The Global Voices Podcast brings you local news from all over the world. Each week, insiders from our community share what news matters more in their communities and how they build their stories out of the local context. Listen now for your weekly dose of global news in local voices.

If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe and tell your friends about us! You can follow us on Twitter. The music in this podcast is from the track “Voyage” by NikMartken, from our extended Global Voices community.

Our newsroom editors discuss how different regions responded to the war

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In this relaunch of the Global Voices Podcast, our newsroom editors talk about how Russia's invasion of Ukraine might affect, and might not affect Latin America, South Asia, Southeast Asia, and Sub-Saharan Africa. What do people in these regions think about Russia's invasion of Ukraine? Do they expect their governments to do something or not? What are the long-term impacts for these regions — such as oil price shocks and global hunger?

The Global Voices Podcast brings you local news from all over the world. Each week, insiders from our community share what news matters more in their communities and how they build their stories out of the local context. Listen now for your weekly dose of global news in local voices.

If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe and tell your friends about us! You can follow us on Twitter. The music in this podcast is from the track “Voyage” by NikMartken, from our extended Global Voices community.

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Last December, in Colombo, Sri Lanka, in a small hotel game room with decent acoustics — and with a tropical storm brewing outside — ten Global Voices contributors from around the world gathered in a room to talk about international friendship, cross-cultural collaboration and the value of community.

They were among the hundred authors, translators and editors from 60 countries who had gathered at the Mount Lavinia hotel for the biennial Global Voices summit to discuss the future of media, community, and the organization itself.

Into the Deep is the Global Voices podcast where we dig deep into one topic that isn’t getting the media coverage it deserves. And in this podcast we are going to be giving you a glimpse of the latest Global Voices summit.

Global Voices is an international network of passionate people who keep tabs on the online conversations happening in their regions. Our more than 1400, mostly volunteer, contributors cover stories from 167 countries and translate them into more than 30 languages. Together, we’ve been building bridges of understanding, as we like to call them, through our digital reporting since 2005.

In this episode, we featured Creative Commons licensed music from the Free Music Archive, including Rite of Passage, Quasi Motion, and Tikopia by Kevin MacLeod.

The photo used in the feature image is a selfie by Faaris Adam from the Global Voices Summit in Colombo. Used with permission.

Two women who left Venezuela at different times for different reasons.

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Venezuela has the world’s largest proven oil reserves. Years ago, it was Latin America’s richest economy. Now it’s a country in free fall with food shortages; the highest inflation in the world; a raging homicide epidemic; and a hugely unpopular government consolidating constitutional power while brutally repressing protests.

Venezuela doesn't have one crisis. It has many crises, all of which are interconnected and affecting ordinary Venezuelans. As life becomes increasingly difficult for the 31 million people inside of Venezuela, we speak to two Venezuelan women who live outside the country in this episode of Into the Deep.

Laura Vidal and Marianne Díaz Hernández belong to the Global Voices community. Marianne left  the country, recently, because of the crisis; and Laura left the country nine years ago in 2008, when Venezuela’s social programmes were promoted as a model for Latin America.

Here's a sneak peek at the episode:

Everything that you do now in Venezuela has some how to do with how the country is being handled. For instance you run out of milk then you have to have a conversation with others about the fact that you can't get milk because you have to buy a certain amount of milk, a certain day of the week, because of certain political decisions that were taken. Everything that happens in the country, happens inside of that discourse and you have to locate yourself somewhere in the political spectrum and take a position.

There's always a way to make the other person shut up. Shut up you work in a ministry. Shut up you left. Shut up you received a scholarship. Shut up you went to a public university. Shut up you follow the government. There is always a reason why you shouldn't give your opinion or you shouldn't participate. And this is not only people who follow the government. This is something that has become kind of general. Now that I am outside the country, both parties absolutely silence me. I really have no right of opinion, even if there are things that I understand now that I wouldn't understand if I had not left the country.

Into the Deep is the Global Voices podcast where we dig deep into one topic that isn’t getting the media coverage it deserves. In this episode, we featured Creative Commons licensed music from the Free Music Archive, including Daemones (CC BY 4.0) and Scenery (CC BY 4.0) by Kai Engel; Bathed in fine dust by Andy Cohen (CC BY 4.0): and Mutinee by Podington Bear (CC BY-NC 3.0).

The image featured in this podcast is called “What young Venezuelans do when they’re not being killed” is by Venezuelan illustrator Gonzalez. It is used here with permission.