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Global Voices

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Amsterdam, Netherlands
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Grants to Global Voices

  • $450,000Active Strategy

    2011 (Duration 2 years)

    Media

    AMSTERDAM, NETHERLANDS — Global Voices is a news service that draws on the work of more than 500 bloggers and translators around the world, with more than 20 paid freelance part-time regional editors and translators. Global Voices produces original, high-quality reporting for both the general public and for major newspapers and broadcast networks, many of which have closed their foreign bureaus. This two-year grant from the MacArthur Foundation will support high-quality journalism and news production.

  • $75,000Active Strategy

    2010 (Inactive Grant)

    Media

    AMSTERDAM, NETHERLANDS — In support of the Citizen Media Summit.

The MacArthur Foundation awarded Global Voices $525,000 between 2010 and 2013.

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