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Rachel Rawlins

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About Rachel Rawlins

33 posts · joined 2006-03-10

I started blogging in 2003 and it is as a blogger that I joined Global Voices Online as managing editor in 2006. I was seduced by the individual social side of blogging, I'm now wedded to its potential to empower individuals around the world to tell their own stories and shape the future of what we call “news”. I worked for more than 15 years as a radio journalist for the BBC World Service, mostly specialising in news about Africa. I've also worked for various human rights and media freedom organisations. I have a really bad gadget addiction and I love to knit, if I ever get the time.

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February 27th, 2007

Meet Sami Ben Gharbia, Global Voices' new Advocacy Director

A small portrait of the translator Rachel Rawlins · 16:52 · About GVO , Announcements
Global Voices is delighted to announce the appointment of Sami Ben Gharbia as Advocacy Director, and the attentive reader will already have noticed his posts on anti-censorship and free-speech issues. Sami pictured next to a free-speech campaign slogan Sami is an experienced human rights campaigner, a Tunisian who has lived in exile ... 8 comments  · read »

February 21st, 2007

World, meet Africa! A new way of reporting the continent

A small portrait of the translator Rachel Rawlins · 21:15 · Sub-Saharan Africa
lingua → zhs
It's frequently depressing reading accounts of Africa in the mainstream media. Doubly so, in fact. Firstly because what is defined as worthy of reporting is, well, depressing. And secondly because it so seldom engages with the complex and vibrant reality of the continent in all its massive diversity, preferring instead ... 12 comments  · read »

December 11th, 2006

Global Voices Delhi summit - only a few days to go!

A small portrait of the translator Rachel Rawlins · 19:29 · About GVO , Announcements
The last details are being put together for the Global Voices annual summit being held in Delhi on Saturday 16 December. But the physical location shouldn't make a difference - please join us online from wherever you are! You can join via Internet Relay Chat (IRC). The IRC address is ... 3 comments  · read »

September 19th, 2006

East Asia

Rumors of a coup had been circulating in Bangkok for weeks, and foreigners like me had been ‘warned’ to be careful, don’t stay out late, move in groups, keep updated with news reports, watch the cable TV.

So when it happened last night (Tuesday, Sept 19), I was hardly surprise. Nevertheless, I was excited. I have never experienced a coup before and I wanted to be in the thick of things.

When I heard about the coup, it was already past 10pm, and I had just returned to my apartment after dinner. I tried to get a taxi to where the action is: the government house. But no taxi seem to want to ferry me there.

So begins a spirited account of the day's activities by blogger Susan Loone in Bangkok, the latest in a series of entries on the unfolding coup in Thailand.

Thailand: Liveblogging the coup

A small portrait of the translator Rachel Rawlins · 16:05 · East Asia
At least two blogs have been set up solely to cover the unfolding military coup in Thailand - a group blog 19sep which is in English and revolution.blogrevo which is in Thai. Video copies of coup-related announcements are appearing on YouTube. Below is the first televised announcement of the take-over by ... 12 comments  · read »

September 18th, 2006

Knight-Batten Awards: And the winner is…..

A small portrait of the translator Rachel Rawlins · 12:30 · About GVO , Announcements
It was appropriate that, for an award given for innovations in journalism, overseen by J-Lab (the Institute of Interactive Journalism at the University of Maryland), the news came from my colleague Georgia Popplewell at the ceremony in Washington DC via instant message to London and from there out to the ... 10 comments  · read »
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