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  • Government Resumes Building Highway

    Another video featured an abandoned highway that had remained unfinished for 3-4 years. “The moment one of our CJs, Jim Leow, highlighted the issue,” explained Perianen, “the following day it was picked up by the mainstream media, then subsequently it was picked up by our editorial floor.” The state government was forced to defend itself to the public, and since then, it has resumed the construction of the highway.

    May 25, 2010
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  • India’s Tribal Citizens Use New Cell Phone Network to Produce Local News

    Dozens of citizen journalists in India’s chronically neglected tribal communities are producing and sharing audio news reports for the first time through an innovative cell phone system launched by a Knight International Journalism Fellow.

    Members of India’s 80-million-strong Adivasi tribal community now have easy access through their mobile phones to reports on important issues such as housing evictions, police abuse and rural education.

    March 30, 2010
    Asia
    Citizen Journalism, Mobile
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  • Knight Award Winner Meets Secretary Clinton, Pleads for Help in Ending Sexual Violence in DRC

    During a meeting with U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), ICFJ’s 2009 Knight International Journalism Award Winner called for a non-partisan security force to end sexual violence in the conflict-torn region.

    Chouchou Namegabe also pleaded for more protection for the DRC’s media, which she said are vulnerable to government closures. Namegabe was among a group of people who battle sexual and gender-based violence that met with Clinton on Aug.

    August 31, 2009
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