journalist activism to reach another reality Carreteras Secundarias: Activismo periodista para llegar a otra realidad

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ÍnDEX

PRESENTATION...... 7 Yolanda Polo Tejedor

INTRODUCTION Visions of the World: stories of commitment...... 11 Manuela Mesa

Revolution in Egipt...... 17 media needs a revolution...... 19 Amira Salah Ahmed

Speak out, Tahrir, speak out...... 29 Francisco Carrión

#YoSoy132 Movement: MExico...... 30 The counter-hegemonic power of social networks...... 33 Raúl Romero

An analysis of international media coverage of #YoSoy132 Movement...... 40 Majo Siscar Banyuls

#YoSoy132: the youth of the nation stir up collective dialogue...... 53 Daniela E. Rea Gómez

Famine in the Horn of Africa...... 65 The Horn of Africa Food Crisis...... 67 Jose Miguel Calatayud

The Horn of Africa: Prerecorded Broadcast...... 81 Irina Fuhrmann

Challenge of covering hunger in the Horn of Africa...... 86 Samuel Siringi

Conclusion...... 94 journalist activism to reach another reality 7

PRESENTATION

Yolanda Polo Tejedor (COMUNICATIOn manager in Coordinadora de ONG para el Desarrollo-EspaÑa)

he rescue of citizenship is essential for the defence of human, social and civil rights. TWe must help create organisations that are capable of harmonising globalisation with local communities active membership, and this is possible, and is, possibly, the future towards which our Non-profit organisations (NPOs) should head; and build a global civil society upon both local and transnational organisations at the same time. Arantxa Cejudo1

nd so, one morning we get up and shout out that the absence of the important Aworld news in some daily newspapers is a crime, that societies are being deceived and numbed by this non-journalism, that people who are not well informed can be eas- ily manipulated, and that quality information, as a public servi