Web site to become Iraq's first news wire
A New York Times article by Roben Farzad, via The International Herald Tribune, reports that:
Iraqi journalists are getting a chance to show their résumés around.
The charitable foundation of the Reuters news agency plans to announce this week that it is turning a grass-roots Iraqi news Web site into Iraq's first independent commercial news service.
For several months, the Web site, Aswat al-Iraq, or Voices of Iraq, has relied on a team of 30 stringers and help from three of Iraq's independent newspapers, as well as feeds from the Reuters Arabic-language service, to publish hundreds of articles a month on politics, culture and even the taboo topic of AIDS in Iraq.
Now the site, www.aswataliraq.info, will become a full-fledged news wire, managed and staffed by Iraqi journalists in Baghdad and operated independently of Reuters. It will use $800,000 from the United Nations to create a newsroom and post reporters in each Iraqi province. When the service goes live in a few months, it will feed breaking news to both Iraqi and foreign news outlets.
posted by Fergie @ 7/18/2005 07:19:00 AM
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