In commemoration of the 20th
anniversary of the Srebrenica
Massacre, Al Jazeera Balkans
has launched a collection of
documentaries, picture galleries,
interactives, maps, videos,
award-winning short stories and
news reports all on one
interactive platform.
Srebrenica WEB Genocide
Museum is an interactive
website which allows content
users access to archived
information together with a 360
degree video tour of the places
where the atrocities took place.
By collating the human stories
surrounding the Srebrenica
massacre, alongside interactive
maps and timelines, the site will
allow users to gain an in-depth
understanding of the genocide
AJ Balkans launches
Srebrenica web museum
and its aftermath.
Tarik Dodic, MD of Al Jazeera
Balkans said the project will
allow people to learn the lessons
of the genocide. The database
lets users see the panoramic
view of the location, watch full
documentaries, photo galleries
and additional Al Jazeera
content. It also provides drone
footage of the Srebrenica
Memorial Center Potocari and is
available in three languages:
Bosnian, English and Turkish.
The platform is adjusted for all
PC, Mac, laptop, tablet and
smartphone users.
The killing of 8,000 Bosnian
Muslim men and boys by Bosnian
Serb troops at Srebrenica was
the worst massacre in Europe
since World War Two.
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IN BRIEF
WHAT KIDS
WANT
PwC’s report ‘What kids
want’ summarises key
findings from a 511
respondent survey that
explores what media content
appeal to kids and teens (8-
18) and what influence their
parents have. on average
across age groups, kids/
teens say they spend 15.5
hours per week engaging
with content. Interestingly,
traditional TVs and laptops/
computers are the most
widely used for watching.
The most popular media
content is streamed TV from
subscription/cable channels.
Download at
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NHK WORLD
HIGHLIGHTS
Japan’s international
broadcaster NHK WoRLD TV
explored in its August
programme schedule
aspects of post-war Japan
with long-form documentaries
such as the
Quest for
Prosperity
, the
Centenary of
the Atomic Bomb Dome
,
A-
bomb Survivors and Their
Children
, and
Hatred and
Forgiveness
. The channel
reaches over 200m house-
holds in 150 countries.
Earlier this year it partnered
with Lakeshore Public Media
to bring Japanese and Asian
news and lifestyle program-
ming to over 3.5m homes in
the Chicago and Northwest
Indiana areas.
MONETISINGDAB+
Commercial radio stations
in the metropolitan capitals
of Australia say they intend
to focus on sales for DAB+
only stations, as the ‘GfK
DAB+ Digital Radio Report’
released listener numbers
for the first time. The total
DAB+ audience is now at a
high of nearly 3.2m people
(24.1% of the population)
across the five state metro-
politan cities. Commercial
radio will join the ABC, SBS
and community radio on the
Digital Radio Planning
Committee for the rollout of
DAB+ to regional Australia.
RNW Media heads toNepal
RNW Media (formerly Radio
Netherlands Worldwide) has
supplied mobile radio stations to
two earthquake-ravaged regions
in Nepal. The “radios in a box”
were sent to restore communication
in two agricultural areas, around
100km from Kathmandu. The
first RIAB went to Krishi Radio,
the “First and only Agricultural
Radio of Nepal”, with a reach of
around 25,000 people in a valley
east of the capital. The second
portable station was shipped
northwards, to Radio Melamchi
Community in the mountainous
village of Sindhulpalchok, one of
the regions hit worst by the April
earthquake. The RIAB is a small
mobile radio station specially
designed for use in war zones or
disaster areas where radio
transmitters have been
destroyed. With both stations
situated on top of mountains, the
transmitter range is at least
15km.
RNW Media provided a crash
course in operating the RIAB for
staff at both stations. Less than
a cubic metre in size, the
portable RIAB is equipped with
an FM transmitter, a mixing
console, microphones, head-
phones, two recorder sets and a
laptop computer for editing.
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Alhurra
interactive
Alhurra TV encourages young
Arab audiences to join the
discussion on-air with two new
dynamic and interactive shows,
DardechTAG
and
You and Nablia
.
The shows bring together
Alhurra’s digital and broadcast
properties for an enlightening
and engaging discussion, using
Facebook, Twitter, phone and
skype for interaction with the
shows’s hosts and guests.
DardeshTAG
and You and Nabila
represent a new type of
programme on Alhurra, says
Brian Conniff, President of MBN
which manages and oversees
Alhurra: “The youth in the Middle
East needs an opportunity, using
new media and traditional
platforms, to have conversations
about topics that will shape their
future”.
