Global Voices reports that Reporters Without Borders is about to publish a guide for bloggers and cyberdissidents. Julien Pain writes:
Bloggers are often the only real journalists in countries where the mainstream media is censored or under pressure. Only they provide independent news, at the risk of displeasing the government and sometimes courting arrest.
Reporters Without Borders has produced this handbook to help bloggers, with handy tips and technical advice on how to remain anonymous and to get round censorship, by choosing the most suitable method for each situation. It also explains how to set up and make the most of a blog, to publicise it (getting it picked up efficiently by search-engines) and to establish its credibility through observing basic ethical and journalistic principles.
The guide, in five languages (English, French, Persian, Chinese and Arabic), will be available at the Reporters Without Borders website later this week.
TAGS: FREEDOM, BLOGGING, REPORTERS WITHOUT BORDERS,JOURNALISM
