Aung Zaw gets Prince Claus Award for journalism
The founder and editor of The Irrawaddy magazine, Aung Zaw, has been awarded the 2010 Prince Claus Award for journalism along with two journalists from Iran and Cuba. Irrawaddy is partner of Free Voice since more than ten years read more...

  Kids News Mozambique sets trends
Kids News Network's (KNN) newest program in Africa, Telejunior in Mozambique, has taken the country by storm in its first six months on air. According to an audience research, the program has children talking about news items at school, especially when children are portrayed for their special achievements. By Hasina Kathrada, KNN Coordinator Africa. read more...

  Important role for Burmese journalists during elections
Websites media in exile provide up-to-date information read more...

  Kids News Network covers 1st Youth Olympics
The first Youth Olympic Games are being held in Singapore. The Kids News Network (KNN) team from Youth Voice (Burma) is covering this unique event and shares their reports with the other Kids News programs of the network. read more...

  Kids News Radio pilot in Indonesia
The Indonesian radio network KBR68H starts with Kids News Network (KNN) an unique experiment: Kids News Radio. News for children on television and internet has proofed its success, but radio news for children has not been produced by KNN before. read more...

  Dutch journalist visits Ghanaian newspaper
Alberta Opoku, a freelance journalist and producer/co-presenter of Radio Netherlands Worldwide’s weekly magazine program Bridges with Africa, is spending a few weeks with the Daily Graphic, a leading newspaper in Ghana, as part of Free Voice’s MCI exchange program. read more...

  Hundreds of African World Cup stories available
Over 400 stories have already been made available for publication through the Twenty Ten media project, with at least a dozen more - including photo, text, audio and multimedia features - still to come by the final whistle on 11 July. read more...

  World Cup news for kids around the world
The world's biggest sporting event on African soil for the first time ever. Media opportunities like never before. For Kids News Network, this is the chance to give African journalists a voice to tell their stories for children world wide. Four journalists from the KNN programs Z Kids News (Zambia) and Telejunior (Mozambique) are the 'KNN Twenty Ten' team, led by seasoned kids news maker Bart van Hattum. read more...

  Press Freedom 2.0: pluralism and participation
The Press Freedom Consortium, a new collaboration of five Dutch non-governmental organisations that support press freedom worldwide, has finalised and submitted its final programme application this Thursday to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in The Hague, in the context of the 'Co-Financing System II' (MFSII). read more...

  New West African Media Development Fund
Free Voice and the Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA) created a fund to provide low-interest credits to address the financial challenges of small and medium private and independent media in West Africa. read more...