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EDITOR'S NOTE

Special Edition for the International Day of the World's Indigenous People

As a way of commemorating International Day of the Worlds Indigenous People, we are dedicating this special edition of the newsletter to the progress and growth of the world’s Indigenous media. We wanted to highlight the role of Indigenous broadcasters across the globe and answer the following questions Read more...

EDITOR'S NOTE

Issue 20 / July

One of most recent development is Māori Television’s reorganization. In late June, as part of the company-wide restructuring, which also includes the shift of businesses and responsibilities among the five divisions, Māori Television announced two key appointments to the two newly created divisions: Digital and Production. Read more...

EDITOR'S NOTE

Issue 19 / May

One of the biggest news within the Indigenous broadcasting world has to be the renewal of NITV’s funding. The Australian Federal government agreed to provide 15.2 million Australian dollars for the station. Meanwhile, the Stevens Review, the Review of Australian Government Investment in the Indigenous Broadcasting and Media Sector, was released... Read more...

EDITOR'S NOTE

Issue 18 / March

Broadcasting elections is without a doubt one of the major events for news department. It is also in this coverage we differentiate ourselves from the so-called mainstream media, promising our viewers an Indigenous perspective and a focus on issues and policies that affect our people and our community... Read more...

EDITOR'S NOTE

Issue 17 / January

After being silent for nearly 10 months, we would like to announce more than just a new design of our website; we have an exciting new addition to our content: the WITBN newsletter, a forum where we illustrate transformations, case-studies, and share know-how from indigenous media. The newsletter includes three feature stories: Cover Story, Workshop, and Behind the Scene, written by leaders, producers and reporters to share their work and experience within each organization... Read more...

FEATURE STORY

  • Stepping Up to 2011: A Transition for TITV and WITBN
    Stepping Up to 2011: A Transition for TITV and WITBN Just before Christmas 2010, TITV moved to a new home – from the first floor to fourth floor. As Indigenous elders often say, after reaching the mountaintop, one must be humble to have new visions...
  • An Early Christmas Present for BBC ALBA
    An Early Christmas Present for BBC ALBA It has been a long wait for partners MG ALBA and BBC. On Sept. 19, 2008, when BBC ALBA was launched on satellite to 40 percent of homes in Scotland...
  • The Latest News from the Oldest Culture ~ NITV Went from Zero to 30 Minutes.
    The Latest News from the Oldest Culture ~ NITV Went from Zero to 30 Minutes. Indigenous peoples are the oldest culture in the world, with a storytelling tradition that has informed over thousands of years. News events were told through the passing of message sticks...
  • A TG4 Campaign: Vóta 2011
    A TG4 Campaign: Vóta 2011 They say the media love elections as much as politicians hate them, but for any public service broadcaster, a general election is a major test. For an Indigenous language channel in a country almost obsessed with politics, it is the supreme challenge...
  • Full Step to Digitalization
    Full Step to Digitalization TITV debuted its first internal step to digitalization in 2008 from its Taitung news bureau. One of the important reasons for choosing Taitung was because one-third of the population in Taitung are Indigenous people...
  • Unfold Rapanui: Reporting the Underreported
    Unfold Rapanui: Reporting the Underreported This is the image of Rapanui, of Easter Island, depicted in the tourist brochures; a tiny, peaceful, archeology-rich island at the far eastern tip of the Polynesian triangle. Amateur video footage shows another Rapanui...

OUTLOOK

  • It's Our Birthday, It's Your NITV
    It's Our Birthday, It's Your NITV NITV has not had a chance to take a breather and acknowledge our achievements until now; three years since the station went live on Black Friday, July 13, 2007.
  • Haa, Brought to the Youth by the Youth, and In Te Reo
    Haa, Brought to the Youth by the Youth, and In Te Reo You know you’re really inspiring your audience when the kids who used to watch the show grew up and fulfilled their dreams to become its presenters. That’s the case with Haa
  • Hacio – An S4C Current Affairs “Exclusive”
    Hacio – An S4C Current Affairs “Exclusive” There are very few broadcasters in the UK that provide any kind of current affairs programs for young people. But Welsh-language broadcaster S4C has a dedicated current affairs show for young people that has been running for more than a decade.

WITBN Update

  • Time to Decide – A Note from WITBC’12
    Time to Decide – A Note from WITBC’12 Register Deadline: Feb. 17. NRK Sápmi will be hosting the next biennial World Indigenous Television and Broadcasting Conference, WITBC 2012, from March 24 to 30, 2012. New web site launched.
  • Counting Down to WITBC ’12
    Counting Down to WITBC ’12 NRK Sápmi will be hosting the next biennial World Indigenous Television and Broadcasting Conference, WITBC 2012, from March 24 to 30, 2012. New web site launched.
  • WITBN Welcomes Three New Members
    WITBN Welcomes Three New Members WITBN welcomes three new members to the big family of the global Indigenous media alliance.