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Indonesian farmers can benefit greatly from information on how to make their products thrive. Photo <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/theworldfishcenter/8199313364/">WorldFish (Flickr)</a>

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Good show! How an NGO convinced commercial TV to serve the poor

Information is power, but only if people have access to it. In 2006, a Swiss NGO teamed with Indonesian media to bring that power to small businesses.

The African Media Initiative is looking for ways to make sure Africa's future media will be owned in part by Africans. Photo: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/15439598@N03/3676200550/">Internnews Network (Flickr)</a>

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Wanted: Innovations to shake up Africa's news media (CONTEST)

As the world's news media shift from broadsheets and broadcasts to bits and bytes, the charitable arms of America's digital elite don't want Africans to be left behind.

Sharon Chang, left, is the founder of an intitiative to become a talent agency for social innovators. <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/bryanesque/3981840235/in/photostream/">Photo: bryanesque (Flickr)</a>

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Agents of change: Yoxi.tv's big plan to groom do-gooders into media superstars

It's an unlikely romance, fit for Hollywood: social change meets corporate marketing. Now, one of Tinseltown's most successful inventions is about to join the cast.

Enter the first social-entrepreneurship talent agent.

In the U.S., coverage of the California wilfires dominated the airwaves in 2006. Photo: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/theyoungthousands/199375981/">youngthousands (flickr)</a>

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As the World Shrinks, So Does Network Coverage of International News

Chances are, most Global Envision readers don't rely on nightly TV newscasts to keep abreast of international developments. But what about the 70 percent of Americans who do?

Photo: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/andrewheavens/100063338/"> Andrew Heavens (flickr) </a>

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Water Wars

One of the more critical and less talked about environmental changes occurring right now in several regions of the world, is a developing shortage of water.

Photo: <a href="http://flickr.com/photos/dmcl/2187855344/"> Danny McL (flickr)</a>

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Kenya's Political Disaster - Exaggerated?

It is shocking to read and hear about elections dissolving into civil crisis as we are seeing in Kenya right now. However, as a Kenyan friend of mine is warning, we should be reluctant to take media portrayal of an event as absolute truth:

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The Media Fights Back

Bill Roedy, President of MTV Networks International, speaks his mind about media's involvement in the fight against HIV and AIDS.

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"Made in China" Label Spurs Global Concern

In response to recent product recalls, American parents return millions of lead-painted toys to shops while Chinese parents remain ignorant of the threat.

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Climate Hysteria

Bijorn Lomborg claims constant media coverage of the climate crisis is overshadowing the fact that not much is new in the efforts to fight climate change.

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Journalistic Balance as Global Warming Bias

Pacific University assistant professor Jules Boykoff, and Oxford research fellow Maxwell Boykoff discuss U.S. media coverage of global warming and informational bias.

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An Inconvenient Principle

Researchers Jules and Maxwell Boykoff present their work on climate change and the role the media plays in the global warming debate.

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African and Asian Media ‘Must Report More on AIDS'

The International Federation of Journalists urges the media worldwide to improve the quality of AIDS reporting in order to help mitigate the crisis itself.

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