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Podcast Interview with Rebecca MacKinnon on Global Voices Online

Kiruba Shankar | Sapporo | Podcasts
July 31, 2008 8:37 AM
rebecca_kiruba.jpgRebecca MacKinnon is an Assistant Professor at the University of Hong Kong's Journalism and Media Studies Center and lives in Hong Kong.

She is a former CNN journalist who headed the CNN bureau in Beijing and later in Tokyo, before leaving television to become a blogger and co-founder of Global Voices Online.

From 2004-06 she was a fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society, in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

In this podcast, she talks about Global Voices and why it is important for news from less developed countries to be heard and how the project is trying to aid that change.

Click this link to download the podcast.

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