On World Radio Day (February 13), WACC celebrates the resilience and adaptive capacity of radio as a medium of communication.
Each year, WACC is proud to partner with dozens of grassroots community broadcasters in the Global South. From pioneer community radio stations in remote areas of...
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Warm greetings from the WACC Secretariat. We are looking forward to continuing our committed efforts this year to enable and promote communication for all.
To strengthen our collective efforts, we also want more organisations and individuals to join our cause. So we are going to hold...
WACC partner Computer Professionals Union-Philippines has launched a website that will serve as an online platform for identifying and addressing key digital issues in the country, which has been dubbed “the social media capital of the world,” but remains a “starter” when it comes to...
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By Philip Lee, WACC General Secretary. Published by The Hill Times, February 9, 2021.
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American citizens are not alone in realising that press freedom is under attack. Russians, Poles, Hungarians, Brazilians and Filipinos – to name just a few – are also deeply concerned.
They can all learn from PEN America which has put forward An
Agenda for the Biden-Harris Administration called “Free Expression and the First 100 Days” (19 January 2021). In a plea to defend and promote press freedom in the U.S., PEN calls for affirmative steps to undo the damage to Americans’ attitudes toward the press and to shore up press freedom and respect for the role of professional media in the U.S.
WACC Global is now member of the Global Forum for Media Development (GFMD), an international network of about 200 journalism and media development organisations from more than 70 countries, which supports “the creation and strengthening of journalism and free, independent, sustainable, and pluralistic news ecosystems.”
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