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This article is written by Fayyaz Ahmad Khan, the Climate and Development Knowledge Network  Asia Region’s Knowledge Management and Communication Coordinator

Jamal Dajani, Vice President for Middle East & North Africa/ Latin America & the Caribbean, was the guest of the 4 o’clock news of the francophone satellite Channel TV5 Monde on the 19th of April. He detailed Internew’s media development activites and the role of the media, especially in the Middle-East. 

Mark Harvey the Internews Europe Interim Executive Director signs an op-ed on how Haïti's crisis will change the humanitarian world’s interaction with information on Grotius.fr, a French website specialising in media and humanitarian affairs.Read the article in french

Radio France International (RFI) Media show, l’atelier des media, focused its mid-January show on the work of the Haitian journalists.

Internews Europe Executive Director Manana Aslamazyan won the highly coveted Tefi award in Russia for "Personal Contribution to the Development of Russian Television." The Tefi is Russia’s highest honour for excellence in the media industry and is presented by the Russian Academy of Television. This prize recognises Ms Aslamazyan’s dedication to the development of Russia’s professional media.

On Wednesday the 30th of June, Elsa Caternet, Project Director, and Agathe Dalisson, International Projects Coordinator, were invited to participate in the recording of Ziad Maalouf’s “L’Atelier des Médias” on RFI, accompanied by Sree Rameshaiah from Mahiti, Internews Europe's partner in India. During the programme, two projects supported by Internews were presented, Freedom Fone in Zimbabwe and MySMENews in India, both representing excellent examples of the use of mobile telephony at the service of social development and of information sharing...

STRAITS Times reporter Jessica Cheam has won a coveted green journalism prize conferred by the World Bank and Internews, a global media organisation.

Raghida Haddad, executive editor of Al-Bia Wal-Tanmia magazine and mentor with the WFSJ peer-to-peer program, was among the winners of the Earth Journalism Award. She wrote a series of articles about climate change that culminated in her journey to the Artic in summer 2008, supported by WFSJ, where she navigated for two weeks aboard the Amundsen research icebreaker.Read more here

In Paris last week, such notables as former president and controversial bestselling author Jimmy Carter and pop icons Peter Gabriel and Bono gathered at various events to help commemorate the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Read more: http://articles.latimes.com/2008/dec/17/entertainment/et-cause17

Former U.S. president Jimmy Carter called them "a glorious parade of heroes". Journalists aren't called heroes very often, but Carter was right. The 29 men and women who gathered in Paris last week for an international media award are heroes. Each used truth to make the world a better place, most without any expectation of reward. The Every Human Has Rights Media Awards were a timely reminder that the practice of journalism has rarely been easy or comfortable, that it is still a struggle in many parts of the world, and that it is worth the effort. (Full disclosure: I played a small role as part of a panel that judged North American entries.) Read more on the Toronto Star website here