the african media entrepreneur » globe http://media.blogs.africamediaonline.com Inspiring the Producers and Custodians of African Media Collections Fri, 28 Oct 2011 09:58:27 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 African voices reach all corners of the world http://media.blogs.africamediaonline.com/2010/05/05/african-content-sent-to-all-corners-of-the-world/ http://media.blogs.africamediaonline.com/2010/05/05/african-content-sent-to-all-corners-of-the-world/#comments Wed, 05 May 2010 19:07:53 +0000 dominique le roux http://media.blogs.africamediaonline.com/?p=515 With 108 journalists from some 34 African countries, the ‘Allstar’ journalists of the Twenty Ten project certainly do hail from all parts of Africa. That was certainly made clear when we all sat together in the training workshops, comparing notes from our respective regions of the world. But I don’t think that many comprehend quite how far around the globe these African voices are being amplified.

Africa Media Online, the organization responsible for the distribution of the content provided by the project’s journalists – including text, photography, audio and multimedia – works with dozens of international agencies who act as ‘resellers’, distributing content in their own territories and languages.

The main players involved in distributing Twenty Ten content include:

China Foto Press in China

dpa Picture Alliance in Germany

East News in Poland

Fotolink in Russia and Ukraine

Hollandse Hoogte in The Netherlands

Image Works in the USA

Imagine China in China

Keystone in Switzerland

La Presse in Italy

laif in Germany

Majority World in Bangladesh and the UK

Newscom in the USA

Other Images in South America

Panos in the UK

Pixpalace in the USA

Sipa in France

ullstein in Germany

Other resellers of Africa Media Online content who have access to the material but operate in more specialist niches, include

akg images in Germany

Alamy in the UK

Alinari in Italy

Belga in Belgium

Construction in the UK

Dukas in Switzerland

fotofinder in Germany

imago in Germany

IML in Greece

Lebrecht in the UK

mauritius images in Germany

Medium in Poland

Photo12 in France

Tongro in Korea

UPPA in the UK

REA in France

Voetbal International in The Netherlands


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