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For the second consecutive year, FRANCE 24 and RFI are organizing the Web Documentary Award.
Within the framework of “Visa pour l’Image - Perpignan”, one of the most important international photojournalism festivals, FRANCE 24 and RFI are contributing to the emergence of this innovative news format.
The prize rewards the best web documentary that stands out thanks to its original outlook on a news topic and its effective use of new multimedia tools offered by the web. You can find here all the information regarding the award, entry requirements and the competition’s conditions.

Entry deadline: 20 July 2010

FRANCE 24 RFI Web Documentary Award
FRANCE 24, the international news channel, and RFI, the international news radio station, launched the first edition of the Web Documentary Award in 2009 in partnership with the photojournalism festival “Visa pour l’Image - Perpignan”.

This project aims to encourage the development of a new form of information based on the wide possibilities offered by new media and internet.

This initiative is in line with the strategy undertaken by FRANCE 24 and RFI, both pioneer media in the use of multimedia tools, new technologies and innovative perspective on news.

Open to all, this prize rewards the best and most original journalistic project published online in terms of choice and coverage of a multimedia news topic. The laureate will be granted 8.000 Euros. In order to select a prize-winner, the jury will use the following criteria:

- choice of topic
- the journalistic approach in the treatment of the topic
- multimedia approach
- production quality
- interactivity

The candidates are required to innovate, to advance or contribute to the reflection on a modern way to presenting information on the web.

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Anchor Point, the home of station KNLS, stretches along the Sterling Highway, down through the valley of the pristine Anchor River, and atop the bluffs overlooking Cook Inlet. Just 200 miles south of Anchorage, an hour drive from world famous Kenai River, and twenty minutes from the grandeur of Kachemak Bay, Anchor Point is a destination choice of visitors from around the world.

Early inhabitants of the Anchor River valley and the beach along Cook Inlet, into which Anchor River empties, were Tenaina Indians.

In the summer of 1787 Captain James Cook and the crews of the Resolution and the Discovery sailed into the Inlet looking for the Northwest Passage. Anchor Point was given its name after Captain Cook lost a large kedge anchor to the powerful tide currents.

During the spring of 1896 gold fever brought a group of men and one remarkable woman to the beach south of the “Point” to sluice and pan for the fine beach gold brought in by the tides.

A hardy group of missionaries and homesteaders arrived during the post-war era beginning in 1945, planting crops, raising livestock, and building homes and schools. Many of those early settlers, and their growing families, continue to live in the area and enjoy the beauty and bounty that attracted the native families centuries earlier.

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Then And Now: Free Media In Unfree Societies

Established at the beginning of the Cold War to transmit uncensored news and information to audiences behind the Iron Curtain, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) played a significant role in the collapse of communism and the rise of democracies in post-communist Europe.

Many East European and Russian leaders, including Vaclav Havel and Boris Yeltsin, have testified to the importance of RFE and RL broadcasts in helping end the Cold War. Former Estonian President Lennart Meri nominated RFE/RL for the Nobel Peace Prize in 1991.

Today, RFE/RL is one of the most comprehensive media organizations in the world, producing radio, Internet and television programs in countries where a free press is either banned by the government or not fully established. RFE/RL broadcasts in in 28 languages in 20 countries, including Afghanistan, Iran, Russia, and the Cental Asian Republics (click here for a map).

Established After the Second World War

Radio Free Europe (RFE) and Radio Liberty (RL), originally separate organizations, were conceived by George F. Kennan (United States Department of State) and Frank G. Wisner (Office of Policy Coordination, later the United States Central Intelligence Agency) to utilize the talents of post-World War II Soviet and East European émigrés in support of American foreign policy.

RFE was founded in 1950 and initially broadcast to Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Poland and Romania. Three years later, RL began broadcasting to the Soviet Union in Russian and 15 other national languages. RFE/RL began broadcasts to Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania in 1976.

Initially, both RFE and RL were funded principally by the U.S. Congress through the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), but RFE also received supplemental private donations.

In 1971, all CIA involvement ended and thereafter RFE and RL were funded by Congressional appropriation through the Board for International Broadcasting (BIB) and after 1995 the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG). The two corporations were merged into RFE/RL, Inc. in 1976.

Reaching New Audiences

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“A year ago people were worried that losing our FM radio frequency would be a big problem. But we’re working around it,” says Kenan Aliyev, the director of RFE/RL’s Azerbaijani service Radio Azadliq. He waves a copy of “F?rqli dü?ünc?”, a newspaper that’s being distributed weekly in Azerbaijan’s capital Baku and around the country. “Who says the newspaper is dead? It’s not!”

In January 2009, The Azeri government banned all international broadcasters, including RFE/RL, VOA, and BBC, from the national airwaves. This posed a challenge to Kenan and his colleagues: “Our listeners were used to listen to us on FM radio. When the frequency was shut down, many of them lost touch with our station,” he says. “So we had the idea to get our content published in a locally produced newspaper.”

F?rqli dü?ünc?, which translates as “think differently” (Radio Azadliq’s main slogan), is a joint project between Radio Azadliq, the local branch of the international NGO IREX, and a local publishing house. Since December last year, 10,000 copies of the paper are being distributed weekly in Baku and regionally.

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Radio Taiwan International’s English Service membuka lowongan pekerjaan posisi Program Host/Reporter

Tanggung jawab meliputi: menerjemahkan, menulis, broadcasting, wawancara, producing programs and maintaining web page.

Syarat-syarat:

• lulusan PT/Universitas,
• kualitas suara yang bagus,
• lancar berbicara dan menulis dalam bahasa Inggris,
• lancar berbicara dan membaca bahasa Mandarin,
• cinta dengan profesi broadcasting,
• memiliki skill computer,
• Web experience is a plus.

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Summer Schedule 2010 Deutsche Welle Radio
28.03.2010 – 30.10.2010
Indonesia
CIRAF: 54

German
0800-1000 UTC: 15650 kHz
Trincomalee
1000-1200 UTC: 15650 kHz
Trincomalee
17635 kHz
Trincomalee
21780 kHz
Kigali
1200-1400 UTC: 9565 kHz
Trincomalee
17845 kHz
Singapore
2000-2200 UTC: 7330 kHz
Trincomalee
9875 kHz
Kigali
2200-0000 UTC: 5955 kHz
Trincomalee
Starts 2300UTC
9775 kHz
Kigali

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NHK (Nippon Housou Kyoukai), atau Perusahaan Penyiaran Jepang adalah sebuah badan penyiaran umum di Jepang. Radio Tokyo adalah nama tidak resmi NHK, dan merujuk kepada asal-usulnya sebagai sebuah stasiun radio.

NHK saat ini mengendalikan dua jasa siaran televisi melalui pancaran darat (terrestrial), NHK General TV dan NHK Educational TV, tiga jasa siaran TV melalui satelit, NHK BS-1, NHK BS-2 dan NHK Hi-Vision (penyiaran definisi tinggi) dan tiga rangkaian radio, NHK Radio 1, NHK Radio 2 dan NHK FM. Untuk mereka yang berada di luar negari, NHK juga menyiarkan NHK World TV, NHK World Premium dan NHK World Radio.

Sejarah

NHK didirikan pada tahun 1926, berdasarkan model perusahaan radio Britania Raya, BBC. Sebuah jaringan radio kedua dimulai pada 1931 dan siaran gelombang pendek dipancarkan ke luar negeri pada tahun 1935.

Pada November 1941, Tentara Kekaisaran Jepang menasionalisasikan seluruh kantor berita umum dan mengkordinasikan usaha mereka melalui pembentukan Majelis Perhubungan Informasi Rahasia yang terdiri daripada wakil dari Angkatan Darat dan Laut, dan juga dari beberapa agensi pemerintah seperti Kementerian Luar, Kementerian Asia Timur Raya, Kementerian Transportasi, Biro Informasi Kabinet dan Kantor Berita Domei dan NHK. Setelah itu, segala media cetak dan penyiaran menjadi pengumuman resmi Markas Besar Tentara Kekaisaran Jepang di Tokyo selama berlangsungnya Perang Dunia II.

NHK memulai jasa siaran televisi pada tahun 1953 dan menyiarkan siaran berwarna pertama kalinya pada tahun 1960. NHK merupakan perusahaan pertama yang memperkenalkan penyiaran iklan ke televisi Jepang, tetapi kini perusahaan tersebut dibiayai oleh iuran penonton. Penduduk Jepang yang memeliki televisi diwajibkan membayar iuran sekitar USD 12 setiap bulan di bawah Undang-undang Penyiaran “Housou Hou”. Namun, undang-undang tersebut tidak menyebut hukuman yang dikenakan jika iuran tidak dilunaskan.

Jaringan televisi NHK memulai sistem siaran digital pada 2000, sedangkan sistem siaran analog tetap dipertahankan sampai tahun 2011.

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NHK (Nippon Hoso Kyokai, Official English name: Japan Broadcasting Corporation) is Japan’s national public broadcasting organization. NHK, which has always identified itself to its audiences by the English pronunciation of its initials, is a publicly owned corporation funded by viewers’ payments of a television license fee.

NHK operates two terrestrial television services (NHK General TV and NHK Educational TV), three satellite television services (NHK BS-1, NHK BS-2, and NHK Hi-Vision, a High-definition television service), and three radio networks (NHK Radio 1, NHK Radio 2, and NHK FM).

NHK also provides an international broadcasting service, known as NHK World. NHK World is composed of NHK World TV, NHK World Premium, and the shortwave radio service NHK World Radio Japan. World Radio Japan also makes some of its programs available on the internet.

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For 2010, we’ve supplied the feature article ‘Samoan Radio Journey’ as well as our usual detailed country information files for some 25 separate Pacific countries including Hawaii, New Zealand, Fiji, French Polynesia, Papua New Guinea…details such as AM, FM and SW stations, operating information, addresses, websites……

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