[net-gold] Haiti: RSF / Quebecor Media Operations Centre Gets Backing from Haitian Government
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- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2010 06:49:17 -0500 (EST)
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Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2010 18:00:05 -0700 (MST)
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Subject: [Net-Gold] Haiti: RSF / Quebecor Media Operations Centre Gets Backing
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Haiti: RSF / Quebecor Media Operations
Centre Gets Backing from Haitian Government
RT @mediamentor: Reporters Sans Frontières and
Quebecor Media Operations Centre gets backing
from Haitian government
<http://ow.ly/Zbse>
#Haiti
Published on 21 January 2010
Haiti?s culture and communications
minister, Marie-Laurence
Jocelyn-Lassègue, has given her
support for the Media Operations Centre
installed in Port-au-Prince by Reporters
Without Borders and Quebecor.
Their representatives are to meet with
her in the capital this morning (at
9 a.m. local time) to discuss the way
the centre will function and the
choice of journalists to run it.
The centre?s mandate is to:
1- make the equipment that Haitian
journalists need to work available
to them
2- act as a place where they can meet
their international colleagues
3- offer the various organisations
that defend journalists in Haiti a
place where they can operate
4- act as a news centre for the
various government authorities and
NGOs
that want to address as many media
as possible
5- advise and assist the government
and its partners as regards
relaunching news media that were hit
by the 12 January earthquake, both in
the capital and provinces, especially
in the towns of Petit-Goâve,
Grand-Goâve and Léogâne, which were
very badly affected.
Located on Cheriez Street in the
Port-au-Prince neighbourhood of
Canapé-Vert, the centre has room for
up to 20 journalists to work at any
one time, a news conference room that
can hold 40 people and a terrace
that can hold 60 people. It will have
broadband Internet, telephone lines,
an audio and video conference system,
a satellite TV link and printers, as
well as facilities for journalists in
distress.
Canada?s governor-general, Mickaëlle Jean,
plans to address a message in Creole to
the Haitian people via the centre tomorrow.
We invite Haitian President René Préval to
hold a meeting with the press in the centre
and we hope that the presidents, prime
ministers and foreign ministers of the
countries with particularly close ties with
Haiti will also chose this way to make a
concrete commitment to the reconstruction of
the Haitian media.
According to Mark Harvey, leading the European
response for Internews, an international media
development organization which has been
designated by UNOCHA to coordinate all
international media assistance efforts to Haiti,
?Local journalists in Port-au-Prince are the
vital link between the humanitarian relief and
the Haitian population who is desperate for
information. Haitian media professionals are
struggling to get back to their vital work, and
the importance of the work of Reporters Without
Borders in helping to do this cannot be
underestimated.?
This centre belongs to Haiti?s journalists.
Its ability to continue operating in the medium
term will depend on the technical and financial
assistance it receives from other NGOs,
international bodies and foreign media.
Reporters Without Borders and Quebecor would
finally like to pay tribute to four journalists
who died in the earthquake: Wanel Fils of Radio
Galaxie in Port-au-Prince, Franklin Laurent and
Leiva Jasmin (disappeared) of Radio Koha, and
Bazelais Volcy of Radio Echo 2000 in Petit-Goâve.
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