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News, images, NGO services and resources for humanitarians worldwide. Country data includes human development and economic indicators, military statistics and communications. Reuters AlertNet is a humanitarian news network based around a popular website. It aims to keep relief professionals and the wider public up-to-date on humanitarian crises around the globe. AlertNet attracts upwards of three million users a year, has a network of 400 contributing humanitarian organizations and its weekly email digest is received by more than 17,000 readers. It was started in 1997 by Reuters Foundation - an educational and humanitarian trust - to place Reuters core skills of speed, accuracy and freedom from bias at the service of the humanitarian community. AlertNet has won a Popular Communication award for technological innovation, a NetMedia European Online Journalism Award for its coverage of natural disasters and has been named a Millennium Product by the British Government -- an award for outstanding applications of innovative technologies. Why Reuters? Philanthropy has been a feature of Reuters 150-year history and the Reuters Foundation was set up in 1982 to recognise and formalise such activity. Reuters AlertNet is just one of a number of Reuters Foundation projects, all of which are designed to employ Reuters skills to help disadvantaged communities around the world. When researching the viability of a humanitarian news network, Reuters Foundation Trustees concluded that, for a number of reasons, Reuters was unusually well placed to support such a project. It has: An unrivalled reputation for providing speedy, accurate reporting from its worldwide network of journalists. A reputation for independence enshrined in the companys Trust Principles (see details of Reuters independence safeguards). World class news production skills. Technical publishing skills honed in the fiercely competitive business of supplying information to the financial markets. An ability to create networks of contributors and to encourage them to share information - a key feature of many Reuters financial markets services.

 

Address: Reuters AlertNet 30 South Colonnade London E14 4EP United Kingdom
Telephone: 44 20 7542 8655
Fax: 44 20 7542 8599
Website: http://www.alertnet.org/thefacts/countryprofiles/219065.htm