Some of you are undoubtably wondering what happened to Alive in Baghdad, why we suddenly stopped producing videos after a slowing down of production/distribution starting at the beginning of 2009. We can now tell you that among several factors, our Bureau Chief Omar Abdullah, who was coordinating the project from his residence in Syria has [...]
Continue →The latest project from Small World News, Alive in Afghanistan, is receiving a lot of attention in the media and around the blogosphere. Here’s a selection of the coverage we’ve found. The LA Times has this: Alive in Afghanistan is a multimedia reporting project that solicits reports by way of SMS, e-mail and Twitter from [...]
Continue →[Editor's Note: Our colleague Alex Strick will be collaborating with the new Small World News, providing support for our Afghanistan coverage leading up to the election and onward. This is his latest blog post.] For outsiders, Kandahar was never really somewhere you could fall in love with. You know the kind of thing I mean: [...]
Continue →[Editor's Note: Small World News is currently undergoing an exciting transition. Soon correspondents from around the globe will be producing new stories on a regular basis. We are actively seeking new international correspondents, so please get in touch if you have suggestions or wish to join our team. What follows is the first column from our Nigerian [...]
Continue →[Editor's Note: As many of you have heard, the President of Honduras was overthrown by the military on 28th of June, 2009. Since then there have been a variety of reports coming out of Honduras, however by and large the information is very much under control. Due to this climate of repression, we are endeavoring [...]
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