International news coverage has steadily diminished over the past decade. What, in a digital world, can be done to combat this trend?
Bio
Kira Kay
Kira Kay is Co-founder of The Bureau for International Reporting. She is a television news journalist based in New York, whose international work has been seen on PBS, ABC, CBS and CNN. Recently she covered US military actions in Africa for Dan Rather Reports, explored the economic impact of a rising global middle class for PBS NOW, reported on the plight of Iraqi refugees in Jordan for PBS Wide Angle and served as correspondent and producer for a multiple award-winning report on the conflict in Northern Uganda for PBS Newshour and HDNet World Report.
In 2004, Kira received an Emmy nomination for her work reporting on the Darfur crisis for CBS News 60 Minutes. In 2002, she was one of only a handful of American journalists allowed access to the war-torn province of Aceh, Indonesia, and returned to Aceh immediately after the tsunami in late 2004. In 2005, Kira consulted for the New York Times on their official submission to the PBS America at the Crossroads series, "Indonesia: Struggle for the Soul of Islam".
Kelly Golnoush Niknejad
Kelly Golnoush Niknejad is Founder of Tehran Bureau. She was born in Iran and moved to the United States shortly after she turned 17. She studied political science and writing in college, and emphasized international law in her coursework in law school, including two summers of residential studies in European law in Paris, France. She was admitted to practice law in California and before the United States District Court for the Southern District of California.
She started her news career on the staff of a news agency in Southern California, where she covered legal affairs for two years, and at a small newspaper in Massachusetts, where she was a general assignment reporter. She then moved to New York City and earned two masters degrees in journalism from Columbia University, the first with an emphasis in print, and the second specializing in politics and government.
Golnoush is on the board of the Arab and Middle Eastern Journalists Association. She has reported for the Los Angeles Times, the San Diego Union-Tribune, TIME Magazine, California Lawyer and PBS/Frontline, among others. Before starting Tehran Bureau, she was a staff reporter at The National newspaper in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.
Organization that gathers, writes, and distributes news to newspapers, periodicals, radio and television broadcasters, government agencies, and other users. It does not publish news itself but supplies news to subscribers, who, by sharing costs, obtain services they could not otherwise afford. All the mass media depend on agencies for the bulk of the news they carry. Some agencies focus on special subjects or on a local area or nation. Many news agencies are cooperatives, with members providing news from their area to a pool for general use. The largest news agencies are United Press International, Associated Press, Reuters, and Agence France-Presse.
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