The Global News Agency for the Least Developed Countries
MEDIAGLOBAL’s principal role is to provide the global media with news and analysis about the challenges facing the world’s poorest countries in Africa and Asia. The media company operates as a free news service to subscribers by e-mail and www.mediaglobal.org
A range of multimedia services complement the MediaGlobal News Service:
MediaGlobal News Agency for Global Development:
MediaGlobal provides a global newswire, e-mail, and web-based news distribution network.
MediaGlobal Online Services: In addition to delivering news to the global media through direct wire feed, news stories are sent to online publications.
MediaGlobal Vision
MediaGlobal News & Analysis: MediaGlobal is working towards setting up regional centers in Africa staffed by experienced journalists, who will report directly from the development frontline.
MediaGlobal Radio: MediaGlobal will launch its own web-based radio service and support partner stations to enable them to provide accurate and balanced information about key local issues.
MediaGlobal WebTV Services: MediaGlobal will produce short films on development issues for its web-based www.GlobalSouthTV.org.
MediaGlobal VOICES For Global Development: MediaGlobal VOICES will be a web-based and print magazine for the development world. This interview-style publication will feature news, opinion, profiles, and investigative journalism about issues of poverty, disease, and hunger.
MediaGlobal’s THE DEVELOPMENT CHANNEL: The Development Channel is the television media network of MediaGlobal. The Channel seeks to produce and distribute programming that highlights themes consistent with MediaGlobal’s founding purpose. THE DEVELOPMENT CHANNEL will facilitate and coordinate production and the global distribution of programs. With emphasis on raising media and public awareness of significant issues pertaining to the world’s poorest and least developed countries, THE DEVELOPMENT CHANNEL will work with institutions that can help provide program content and financial support. This content will be disseminated through various television media, locally, nationally, and globally to ensure the widest possible circulation.
Funding
The activities of MediaGlobal are funded by voluntary contributions, both financial and in-kind. As a nonprofit company, MediaGlobal can receive contributions from individuals, foundations, and United Nations Member States. MediaGlobal is a 501 © (3) organization and is tax-exempt to the extent of the law.
MediaGlobal’s Target Audience
MediaGlobal communicates extensively with the global media, decision-makers in relief agencies, host and donor governments, human rights organizations, humanitarian advocacy groups, academic institutions, and all the member states at the United Nations. At the same time, MediaGlobal maintains a database of over 20,000-targeted global media outlets. We reach the officials who decide the course of official development assistance to poor countries and the media in donor countries who influence decision-makers.
Areas covered by MediaGlobal include: the United States, Europe, Asia, the Middle East and all of Africa.
INDEPENDENT MEDIA
The MediaGlobal news service is editorially independent. Its reports do not necessarily reflect the views of the United Nations and its various agencies, or governments of countries.
MediaGlobal’s activities are aimed at the media: print, radio, television, and the Internet. Additionally, the message of vulnerable countries reach policy makers, teachers, students, non-governmental organizations, and civil society leaders, as well as key personnel in United Nations agencies, both at headquarters in New York and in field offices. Media delivery modes include print materials, newswire dissemination, video, TV, two-way video-conferencing, CD-ROM, interactive multimedia, e-learning and an increasing use of the Internet to sustain consistent communication channels.
MediaGlobal has created one of the largest databases of development media personnel worldwide and is presently in the process of setting up a network of correspondents in major least developed countries to report on global development issues.
MediaGlobal’s news service is the lifeline of the global information system serving thousands of newspapers, magazines, radio, television, and online customers with coverage in areas of development.
With more than 35 years of experience in communications and over eight years of extensive work in the field of development, serving the interests of the most vulnerable members of the international community, MediaGlobal’s team harnesses the full-range of multimedia services to help poor countries communicate their experiences on the road to alleviation of poverty, disease, and hunger.