J-Lab director Jan Schaffer just opened the proceedings. Earlier today she introduced us to one of the other finalists saying, “Meet one of your co-winners.” Co-winner. Nice concept.
Everyone we meet says they love Global Voices. “Oh, you all have to win,” said one person. HealthNewsReview.org is presenting now. The slide on at the moment calls it “the only systematic news audit service about Health”. Or something like that (the slide just changed). If sexiness is one of the criteria, GV may have a slight advantage here.
Two great posts on GV this morning, by the way: Salam Adil on Iraq and Jennifer Brea on DRC.
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[...] It’s great to sit in a rather grey London, fighting off the fighting cat and dog, chatting with the team there by IM and marveling at the ability of my colleague Georgia to both be there, chat to me, mingle with the great and the good, take pictures and liveblog – all at the same time! [...]
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