40 years of global news

August 16, 2004 11:38 AM

Inter Press Service (IPS) was set up in 1964 as a non-profit international cooperative of journalists. Its founders were Roberto Savio, an Italian freelance journalist, and Pablo Piacentini, an Argentinean political scientist who was then a student in Rome.
In its early days, the primary objective of IPS was to fill the information gap between Europe and Latin America after the political turbulence following the Cuban revolution of 1959. The agency’s network grew steadily and expanded to include Asia and Africa. The objectives broadened – to cover news from the "Third World", give a voice to the voiceless, promote information on development issues, and help create a better balance and flow of international news.
posted by mr.marx (5 comments total)

this is a good post
posted by philcliff at 6:27 PM on August 16, 2004

Interesting. But ... so what? All you've linked to is the group's Web site. They sound neat ... but is there a particular reason they're being mentioned now? What have they done? I see the coverage of Venzuela elections. Is their coverage worthy of a FPP? (It might be, I'm just sayin', more links would be cool.)
posted by Happydaz at 10:20 PM on August 16, 2004

No particular reason. They haven't been linked before, and I think they are an excellent source for international news you probably won't hear about on CNN or see on Google News. YMMV, of course.
posted by mr.marx at 10:47 PM on August 16, 2004

cool :-)
posted by Happydaz at 6:26 AM on August 17, 2004

More links and background would have been cool but this is still a good post and cool resource. Thanks.
posted by arse_hat at 8:09 PM on August 17, 2004