Following our class last night with Andrew Meldrum, I spent some time on the globalpost website this morning. (I had meant to since June mentioned it the previous week.) What a revelation! If you are curious about international news that is not covered in other major newspapers, globalpost.com is for you. (For example, Andrew Meldrum introduced a series on the rising middle calss in African countries last summer.)
I spent seven years in Ethiopia while I was growing up (age 8-15), and am always hungry for news about Ethiopia. Here is a link to a good short story about the hyenas in Harrar, which I remember today as vividly as if I had seen them last week. Enjoy!
http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/africa/100716/ethiopia-hyenas
hi molly: i lived in moscow for 4.5 years (1994 - 1998). i still crave any and all information about russia. while living there i used to describe our relationship to U.S. news coverage as the CNN Factor and the Smug Factor. News about Moscow was always distorted and so much more sensational by the time they were broadcast by CNN. living there, we knew what was really happening on the ground, esp when it came to protests. a crowd of 15 people could be made to look like the city was in revolt!
ReplyDeleteIs it the lack of resources to put journalists on the ground in these places? It would be interesting to look at international coverage over the last fifty years for tone and content.
ReplyDeleteThanks for sharing this, Molly! I'm always looking for good sources of international news. Another website that I find does a good job of grabbing news from various sources around the world is: www.wn.com (or you can also type www.worldnews.com). A lot of times they post feeds from national or local newspapers around the world. Plus, it's interesting to get the same news from different sources within a region. If you haven't checked out the website yet, thought you may enjoy it.
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