News headlines for “Mainstream Media”, page 82
PHILIPPINES: LGBT Radio Switches to Podcasting
- Inter Press Service
Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) issues have generally been ignored in the Philippines, or worse, negatively portrayed to spice up mainstream media programmes.
Paraguayan Radio Station Buses Internet to the Barrios
- Inter Press Service
'I want my own computer so that I can talk to my cousins who live in Italy,' says eight-year-old Camila Ojeda, sitting in front of a computer monitor on a bus that acts as a mobile cybercafé in the Paraguayan capital.
Will 2014 World Cup Take Football from Brazil's Masses?
- Inter Press Service
The lack of transparency in the preparations for the 2014 FIFA World Cup in Brazil is raising concerns over the social implications of hosting the football championship and fears that the country's most democratic and popular sport will only be accessible to the wealthy.
INDIA-PAKISTAN: Food Heals Historic Hostility
- Inter Press Service
If the way to a man’s heart is through his stomach, then the path to peace between India and Pakistan may lie in the commonalities in their cultures and cuisines.
LAOS-CULTURE: ASEAN Attempts to Build on a Shared Language: Music
- Inter Press Service
A landmark concert featuring artistes from eight of the ten South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) took place here on Jan. 21, in an effort to build a regional community through the common language of music.
India Weighs Social Media Curbs
- Inter Press Service
After India's agriculture minister Sharad Pawar was slapped by a young Sikh man at a function in New Delhi, to record his protest against corruption in high places, social media sites went viral with musical spoofs and caricatured images of the incident.
Kenyan Chief Tweets His Way to Reducing Crime
- Inter Press Service
Using 140 characters or less, Chief Francis Kariuki in Kenya, has tweeted his way to reducing crime in his and surrounding villages.
Brazil Deploys 'Junior Firefighters' to Snuff Out Dengue
- Inter Press Service
The government of the state of Rio de Janeiro is unveiling a battery of creative tactics to engage the population in the battle against dengue fever, which is threatening to reach unprecedented epidemic proportions as a new virus strain hits Brazil.
Radio Static for Ghana’s Community Stations
- Inter Press Service
There is a tension resonating through Ghana’s airwaves, an electric current fueled by rivaling interests between community radio advocates and Ghana’s National Communications Authority.
UGANDA: Using Community Radio to Heal After Kony’s War
- Inter Press Service
Radio Mega FM’s transmission tower rises from the centre of Gulu town, transmitting talk shows and the latest Ugandan radio hits to listeners across the district. But it also serves as something of an informal memorial to community radio-driven peace efforts during the Lord’s Resistance Army’s destruction of northern Uganda.
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