Tsunami relief contacts

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Sources of general information

 

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The tsunami has taken so many lives and touched so many more that

nearly every media outlet in the world will be covering some aspect of

this story for a long time. Here are some excellent resources for

journalists, from finding sources to backgrounding charities.

 

AlertNet.org

 

This comprehensive site (AlertNet.org) gives you a good overview of

the latest aid efforts. Created by the Reuters Foundation, the site

gathers information from a network of more than 300 humanitarian

organizations. Here is a direct link to descriptions of what each aid

group is currently doing in Asia related to the tsunami. (See 2003 Web

Tips column on this site).

 

SAJA.org

 

The South Asian Journalists Association has compiled an excellent,

continuously updated listing of experts and journalists in South Asia,

news and opinion links, and ways you can help. It's

at:http://www.saja.org/tsunami.html. Another fantastic resource SAJA

offers is its Freelance Forum, which lists more than 367 available

journalists in 35 cities in South Asia. If your organization is in

need of a freelancer in South Asia to help cover the tsunami

aftermath, look here first.

 

Tsunamihelp.blogspot.com

 

Professional journalists aren't the only ones gathering great

resources about the tsunami. A group of more than dozen bloggers in

Asia have created a weblog offering one of the best compilations of

resources, aid, donations, and volunteer efforts, updated more

frequently than most news organizationsupdate their websites. This is

a great site to use for staying on top of the latest developments,

find useful links and discover story ideas:

http://tsunamihelp.blogspot.com/

 

Here's another blog with a great set of resources:

http://wetware.blogspot.com/2004/12/tsunami-relief-efforts.html

 

Press releases and Experts:

PRNewswire has created a special page (registration required) where

journalists can easily monitor all the latest press releases related

to the disaster.

 

PRNewswire has also put together a useful list of experts worth

interviewing for related stories here. (Regular readers of this column

will recognize the first name on the list! You must be signed in to

PRNewswire to see this.)

 

GuideStar.org

 

Hundreds of organizations are collecting money for tsunami aid, but

how do you know if they're trustworthy, or how much of the money

they're collecting they'll spend on aid versus administration? I

highly recommend researching nonprofit companies before listing them

in your publication. Readers may assume any charities listed are

trustworthy, so it's up to us to check them out first. The site offers

this quick link to information about more than 100 of the agencies

collecting aid.

 

Missing persons sites

 

Another group of bloggers has created a good site,

http://tsunamimissing.blogspot.com, aimed at helping people find

missing friends or family. The site has even set up a page on a photo

sharing site, flikr, where people can post photos of missing people. A

number of other sites are making similar efforts:

 

http://tsunamiforum.org/

 

http://edition.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/asiapcf/12/28/email.appeals/

 

http://newsbbc.co.uk/1/hi/talking_point/4129995.stm

 

http://www.icrcorg/home.nsf/home/webfamilylinks

 

http://thorntree.lonelyplanet.com/categories.cfm?catid=68

 

http://asian-quake-tsunamis.onthe-internet.com/

 

Satellite photos

 

DigitalGlobe is making a number of high-resolution satellite images

available to media for free. The images show the areas hit by the

tsunami before, during, and after. Amazing stuff.

http://www.digitalglobe.com/tsunami_gallery.html