BBG Media Highlights – January 16, 2014

Citations of BBG Networks

— NPR quotes Voice of America reporting on foreign tourists being attacked and raped in New Delhi.

— Yonhap cites Radio Free Asia report on U.S. private relief agency providing clean water and nutritional assistance to North Korea.

— The Blaze cites RFE/RL report on a reward in Chechnya for naming your baby Mohammed.

— National Review and Washington Post recall a 2011 Jim Moran interview with Alhurra.

— Asian Human Rights Commission quotes VOA Khmer report on survey indicating that 34% of Cambodians consider themselves “suffering.”

— Sunrise Senior Living quotes VOA interview with cancer researcher on yearly tobacco profits and deaths from smoking.

— Tibetan Review cites RFA reporting on detention of Tibetan environmental activists.

In the foreign-language press:

— Maeil Economy (South Korean news agency) cites RFA Korean Service interview with Fujimoto Genji, a cook exclusively having worked for Kim Jong Il until 2001, who said that there is high probability of rising rebellion after Jang Song Thaek’s execution.

Of Interest

— South Korean activists float U.S. dollars, Wikipedia-filled flash drives over to North Korea.

— New and unusual uses for radio technology.

— “The established news media no longer monopolises – and may not for long dominate – the means of production and distribution of the news.” – James Harding, BBC Director of News and Current Affairs, on journalism today.

— Daniel Ellsberg’s Reddit AMA.

— Controversial tweet deleted from Rohani’s account.

— Five facts about Fox News.