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Rebecca MacKinnon

@rmack

Rebecca MacKinnon, cofounder of Global Voices, was a fellow at the Harvard Law School’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society from 2004 to 2006 and a spring 2004 fellow at the Joan Shorenstein Center for the Press, Politics & Public Policy. She was bureau chief for CNN in Tokyo and Beijing and an assistant professor at the University of Hong Kong’s Journalism & Media Studies Centre.

Valued Classroom Resources

RELATED ARTICLES“Teaching Multimedia Journalism”– Rebecca MacKinnon I haven’t found a comparable guide to Briggs’s book written with non-American journalists in mind. The “Introduction to Global Citizen Media,” published by Rising…
March 15, 2008

Teaching Multimedia Journalism

News organizations throughout the world require journalists to report for multiple platforms, including the Web. In my role as a journalism professor at the University of Hong Kong and the…
March 15, 2008

The Global Voices Manifesto

We believe in free speech: in protecting the right to speak—and the right to listen. We believe in universal access to the tools of speech.To that end, we seek to…
December 15, 2006

Gathering Voices to Share With a Worldwide Online Audience

‘Global Voices pulls together interesting threads of conversation and reporting from the global cacophony of blogging voices.’
December 15, 2006

The Precarious State of Television News

‘We’re going to have to completely reinvent it—not only the substance, but the way in which we interact with our audience.’
March 15, 2005

Blogging North Korea

The Web provides a good opportunity for ‘niche’ audiences to find more international news.
September 15, 2004