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Broadcast News on the Net: Latin America's "Pulsar" celebrates its
second anniversary

Quito, Ecuador, Ciberspace - The pace was set on March 4th 1996, when
the Agencia Informativa Pulsar began sending daily news roundups to
about forty Latin American radio stations. Now, precisely two years
later, the number of subscribers has risen to over a thousand, located
in 47 countries on five continents.

Like other news agencies, Pulsar has a team of international
correspondents and sends its news to various communication media. But,
similarities end there. P³lsar is distinct in both its content and
mission.

First, Pulsar's news services are specifically designed for use by
radio, the most widely available and accessible medium in Latin
America. News items are written in clear, radiophonic language;
accessible to a wide range of listeners. Pulsar also offers a
"soundbyte", making the voices of news makers and commentators
available to radio news producers throughout Latin America and the
world.

Although the majority of Pulsar's 1,000 subscribers are radio
stations, the agency also serves the written media, universities,
NGOs, business and personal users.

Another feature of the Pulsar agency is its perspective on the events
that make the news. News is observed and presented from the
perspective of civil society and from a disctinctly Latin American
perspective. In addition to "En Linea", the agency's daily news
service, it also offers Ciberbrujas, a weekly bulletin about Latin
American women, and Nuqanchik, which offers three daily micro programs
in the region's most important indigenous language, Quecha. Nuqanchik
is a coproduction with CEPES, a Peruvian radio production centre.

Finally, P³lsar makes its information available via the Internet. To
receive these services, radio stations only need a computer, a
telephone line and access to the Internet.

Pulsar news items are sent out by email as they become available
throughout the day. The soundbytes and Nuqanchik's microprograms are
also sent to subscribers by email. Arriving as email attachments, they
can be received on any multimedia computer, and then used for radio
broadcast.

In celebration of its second birthday, the Agencia Informativa P³lsar
invites radio stations, the media and the general public to visit its
Web page: http://comunica.org/pulsar. If you would like a free
subscription to these services, you can subscribe from the page or
send a message to <contacto@pulsar.org.ec>. (Note: With the exception
of the Quechua language Nuqanchik, all services are in Spanish only).

The Agencia Informativa Pulsar would like to recognise the support of
the World Association of Community Radios (AMARC), and other
institutions such as the Centro de Educacion Popular (CEDEP), The
Friederich Ebert Stiftung, UNESCO, SIDA of Sweden, and CAF of the
Netherlands.

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Bruce Girard Boa         Agencia Informativa Pulsar
bgirard@pulsar.org.ec    http://comunica.org/pulsar
Fono/Fax: +593-2-501180 Fax en Canada: +1-514-221-2009
Av. Atahualpa 333, Casilla 17-08-8489, Quito, Ecuador