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The Social Activism Sound Recording Project is a cooperative endeavour developed by radio station KPFA-FM (Berkeley, California), the Pacifica Radio Archives, and the UC Berkeley Library. The goal of the project is to make accessible via the web a unique library of recordings of significant people and events that shaped the politics and culture of the 1960s. The project covers the Free Speech Movement, the Black Panther Party, and Other Activists and Events. The site gives contents details for the recordings held and includes a selection of audio and video clips (using Real). Part of the Media Resources Center at Berkeley.
The BBC’s flagship news and current affairs programme revamped its website at the beginning of 2009. It now provides information on the programme’s on-screen team in their new ‘reporter profiles’; wider issues can be discussed on the team blog and reporters Jane Corbin, John Sweeney and Raphael Rowe blog about the challenging situations they face in their work; executive producer Tom Giles provides an insight into the editorial dilemmas and pitfalls which pepper the process of making the programmes. The ‘About Panorama’ section provides a history of the programme (the world’s longest-running investigative programme) and a short film on the first 50 years and classic clips from the last six decades. Episodes continue to be streamed for a full 12 months after transmission and written details of programmes are given going back to 2000.
The Federal Film Archives, Berlin, are digitising the Deutsche Wocheschau newsreel collection of German newsreels from 1949 and making them freely available over the internet. Over 6,000 stories have been issued so far, for lowband (56K) or broadband (250K) connections, using Windows Media Player.. The latter requires registration. Each clips comes with ‘storyboard’ and background information, and searching is by freetext, or by topic, personality, date or location. There are English language and German language versions of the site, but catalogue descriptions are in German only. The commentaries on the newsreels are, of course, in German.
Site dedicated to the work of political theorist and professor of linguistics Noam Chomsky, which includes texts of speeches, book extracts, interview texts, and streamed audio and video material of interviews, lectures and other programmes.
The European Union’s TV news agency Europe by Satellite (EbS) is a service providing coverage of EU affairs for TV and radio professionals. The programmes are available live in German, French and English and the archive section allows access in several more languages. An effective back-up service is also available in the web archive, which allows emergency meetings and press conferences to be retransmitted. Additional information includes detailed schedules of political broadcasts and re-transmissions. This content is available for on-demand viewing (Real and Flash) and most of it also for download in a variety of bandwidths. Links to other websites, and information on use and access are also provided in a comprehensive and easy to understand manner. A huge advantage of this website is that material may be used free of charge and free of rights for educational purposes.
Online edition of the Channel 4 News television programme, with video reports (using Real Player) and supporting text. The site is updated each week-day from 4.00pm, with transcripts and video available from 9.00pm. Stories remain online for the week only.
The WGBH Media Archives and Preservation Center presents bulletins from WGBH’s in-depth nightly news program, >The Ten O’Clock News. The material covers the years from 1974 to 1991 and can be searched by keyword, name, location and chronologically and are between 30 and 200 seconds in length and require QuickTime. From a design perspective, the site is not particularly attractive and somewhat spartan, but the materials held are often fascinating, with emphasis on serious political issues such as desegregation in schools, AIDS and affordable housing.
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