Radio Netherlands Worldwide wants to expand and intensify its collaborations with foreign media partners in the next few years.
Cooperation and the exchange of content, in the form of text, audio and video, fits into the stations multimedia policy. Visual content, particularly web video, will assume an increasingly prominent role. More intensive cooperation with international media offers a larger international audience and the opportunity to share its journalists specialist knowledge with third parties, as it did yesterday at the Afghanistan summit in The Hague.
Jan Hoek, General Director of RNW, says: The collaborations with stations like al-Jazeera and Indonesias Metro TV during the Afghanistan summit was highly successful. We will looking to see whether we can give this kind of cooperation a structural basis.
The collaboration with METRO TV, on eof the biggest television stations in Indonesia, meant that millions of Indonesians were well informed about the Afghanistan conference. Apart from METRO TV en al-Jazeera, Radio Sonora Jakarta, which has ten stations in Indonesia, also took its news and reports from RNWs specialists.
Jan Hoek: The potential is enormous. In the United States and Latin America, for instance, we reach millions of people through our partner stations media networks.