Handbook for Bloggers and Cyber-Dissidents

> 2005, Reporters Without Borders

http://www.rsf.org/rubrique.php3?id_ (...)

Blogs can be seen as enlightening, threatening, or even just dull. However, given the censorship practices of the internet in many countries, people many lack the liberty to express themselves freely through mainstream sources. As such, blogs can prove a vital way of people in these countries to voice their opinions to a wider audience, and can prove a useful indepedent news source. Reporters Without Borders has produced a handbook to help them, with handy tips and technical advice on how to to remain anonymous and to get round censorship, as well as ways to establish credibility by observing basic ethical and journalistic principles.

Also available in French, Chinese, Arabic and Persian.

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date of on-line publication : 28 November 2005

Making the News

A Guide for Nonprofits & Activists

> Westview Press, 289 pages, $19.95

http://www.bigmedia.org/publication. (...)

Note from the publisher, Rocky Mountain Media Watch: “This handbook, based on interviews with media-savvy activists and 25 professional journalists, explains how to generate news coverage about any cause or issue that concerns you. Learn how to stage media events, write press releases, compile media lists, contact reporters, deliver sound bites, book a guest on talk radio, lobby editorial writers, columnists and photographers, and much more. Making the News also contains unique advice on how to create newsworthy visual imagery.” read

date of on-line publication : 2 November 2005