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September 19, 2005

Perceptions of the U.S.: Three useful sites

By Francis Pisani

We are not the only ones paying attention to how the US are perceived in the world. Among notable efforts in this direction we want to point to a few notable sites.

  • Watching America has been launched with private money from British entrepreneur Robin Koerner and the experience of Will Kern, an American former copy editor for the International Herald Tribune. It has some advertising and no paid staff according to The Christian Science Monitor. It uses stories published by a wide selection of foreign media with a machine translation when needed and the original story for those who want to compare.

  • Although not exclusively focused on “perceptions of the U.S.” the Atlantic Review pays a lot of attention to this issue in Germany. It is a collective blog that presents itself as “A press digest on transatlantic affairs edited by three German Fulbright Alumni.” It is sponsored by the German Fulbright Alumni Association.

  • Global Voices Online is a non-profit global citizens’ media project, sponsored by and launched from the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at the Harvard Law School. It brings very useful information on stories run in other countries, including some that relate to the U.S.
    There are more. Don’t hesitate to indicate which one you think are the most relevant independently of their ideological or political slant.

    Posted September 19, 2005 10:55 PM

    Comments

    Thank you for recommending the Atlantic Review.

    A great blog on perceptions of the US in the world is the Public Diplomacy Weblog "Eccentric Star," which is edited by a former Foreign Service officer of the US Information Agency:
    http://eccentricstar.typepad.com/

    And congratulations to your own blog!

    Posted by: Jorg [TypeKey Profile Page] at September 20, 2005 09:53 AM

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