Our news service aims to strengthen
South-South and South-North flows of information by making news
about the developing world available to the American media, non
governmental organizations (NGOs), learning institutions, think
tanks and others interested in social, economic and educational
issues affecting primarily developing countries.
Specially edited for the American
readership, the news service distributed by IPS North America
is a selection of independent, international news and features
or services which focus on reporting global processes and issues
of development in the countries of the South. Over 100 countries
are covered by IPS and the other suppliers of news to IPS North
America.
Selected information is also
offered in special development bulletins, at the regional and
international level, on major issues such as human rights, the
environment, food and agriculture, energy, women's empowerment,
health, population and children.
As part of what is known as "development
journalism", our news service aims to help correct the imbalance
of news provided by the mainstream media in the United States
by providing contextualised news that focuses less on specific
news events than on the processes, institutions and trends which
make those events understandable to readers.
In providing in-depth coverage
of global issues, IPS North America contributes to the news casts
distributed with its own journalistic output.
IPS North America reporters write
articles on the critical trends that affect the developing world,
from U.S. environmental policy to the work of the World Bank
and the United Nations system.
In addition to Inter Press Service
Third World news agency, the primary user groups of IPS North
America material are media editors, NGOs, policy-makers at the
United Nations, specialized UN agencies, development agencies
and educational institutions, public institutions and research
institutions, all interested in information about developing
countries.
The real value of IPS North America
is in providing coverage of issues of pressing public concern
which do not receive much attention in the mainstream press.
Media and non media institutions,
which are connected to electronic transmissions channels, including
NGOs and research institutions, could receive selected reports
in electronic bulletins.
For the United Nations agencies
and North American development agencies, we are providing a selection
of our news through Terra Viva, the IPS Daily Journal,
which is also delivered by overnight fax or electronic mail transmission.
IPS North America is dedicated
to filling gaps in mainstream international news coverage in
the interest of communication and justice, not for the purposes
of commercial gain.
IPS North America is a tax exempt
organisation under Internal Revenue Service Code Section 501(c)3.
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