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June 6, 2016

Writing Tips: Finding Web Pages That Are No Longer Online

Written by Filip Stojanovski ·

Quoting sources is of key importance to establishing credibility, but what to do when a quoted web page 'disappears'? Sometimes there's a way to find a copy that can still...

June 1, 2016

A house with a heart: homestay in Indonesia

Written by Violeta Camarasa ·

I often wonder why I travel, and today the answer appeared to me crystal-clear: I travel to see and understand how humans live around the world. I travel in search...

May 31, 2016

Translator Newsletter: Lost Languages, Kid Translators, and more!

Written by Marianna Breytman ·

Hello, GV'ers! Welcome to this week's edition of the Translator Newsletter! Today we're talking about… Is Bilingualism Linked to Creativity? That's the question on Jason Silva's mind when he talks...

May 30, 2016

Global Voices NewsFrames Update

Written by Ivan Sigal ·

Hi everyone! We are getting close to the launch of the NewsFrames project. This week we are signing the contract with Google’s Digital News Initiative, and announcing the first project-related...

May 27, 2016

Whale Hunting in the Faroe Islands, a Tradition or a Massacre?

Written by Tiago Lima Quintanilha ·

Every summer, the Faroe Islands witness a controversial phenomenon consisting on a ritual which takes hundreds of cetaceans life. This is called grind. Is it a tradition or a carnage?

May 16, 2016

Translator Newsletter: Language Maps, Modulation, & More!

Written by Marianna Breytman ·

Hello, GV'ers! Welcome to this week's edition of the Translator Newsletter! Today we're talking about… Language Maps The Washington Post put together seven great maps and charts to help us...

May 15, 2016

Here’s what we learned about global conferences and social media

Written by An Xiao Mina ·

In #RightsCon Conference, we translated 444 Tweets — 172 to Arabic, 259 to Spanish. That’s 148 Tweets/day, or roughly 19 Tweets/hour. Here’s what we learned about global conferences.

May 13, 2016

The Power of Likes and Shares on the Global Voices Facebook Page

Written by Nevin Thompson ·

A Rising Voices post racked up 1,900 Likes, but just a few of them came from the Global Voices Facebook page. Where did they all come from?

May 5, 2016

Introducing Global Voices Videos on Facebook — Help Spread the GV Word by Sharing!

Written by Sahar Habib Ghazi ·

Some of you may have already noticed in your Facebook newsfeed … we started producing short videos from Global Voices stories last week! The goal with these videos is to...

May 1, 2016

Translator Newsletter: ALTA Mentorships, A Universal Language, & More!

Written by Marianna Breytman ·

Hello, GV'ers! Welcome to this week's edition of the Translator Newsletter! Today we're talking about… ALTA Emerging Translator Mentorships For the second year in a row, the American Literary Translators...