Global Information Network, Ltd. or GIN, incorporated in 1986, is an independent,
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domestic non-profit news organization with an office in
New York City that gathers and disseminates news from
reporter
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s in the field in
Africa. It supplies news, analysis, and features to over 300 ethnic and minority newsweeklies nationwide. Its stories have appeared in print, broadcast and web media in the U.S.
Its executive director is Lisa Vives. The mission of the GIN news service is to give information on
global issues
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that are overlooked or under-reported by mainstream media.
The
Inter Press Service
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Hist ...
(IPS), an international newswire made up of journalists, academics, communications experts and specialists in international cooperation, that spotlights the developing world, is a news partner of GIN.
The agency's World Service covers over 150 countries and is produced in
English and
Spanish, with selected stories translated into eleven languages. The daily output is around 112,000 words. In addition to the news service, it provides a radio service and a columnist service, with columns written by statesmen/women, officials, opposition leaders and opinion-makers. Columnists have included
Kofi Annan, the
Dalai Lama,
Bill Clinton,
Mikhail Gorbachev
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and others. The trustees of the IPS include
Boutros Boutros-Ghali (former UN Secretary General),
Martti Ahtisaari (former President of
Finland),
I.K. Gujral
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Born in Punjab, he was influenced by nationalist ...
(former Prime Minister of
India) and
Mário Soares (former President of
Portugal).
Stories written for GIN have been picked up by IPS, and have been featured as lead articles on the IPS home page (www.ipsnews.net) and been distributed across the world in
United Nations journals, radio stations in Latin America, Africa and Asia, and hundreds of international publications.
In addition to its role as news distributor, it produces a weekly
Africa News Briefs bulletin and is a monthly host of
African roundtable conferences
that present human rights journalists honored by organizations such as the to Protect Journalists,
PEN, the international writers' organization and The
UN Human Rights Committee.
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News agencies based in the United States