Human Wrongs Watch
By Ramesh Jaura – IDN-InDepthNews*, Berlin – When he took to the road to correct imbalance in the flow of information, which was very much to the detriment of newly independent and developing countries, there was an air of optimism and trust, recalls Roberto Savio, a global citizen par excellence who embodies culture of peace and is a relentless champion of pluralism in the media.
“The economy was growing, the genie of uncontrollable finance was not yet out of the bottle in which it had been shut away by political power, and we young people knew that we had a future,” writes Savio in the book titled The Journalists Who Turned the World Upside Down – Voices of another Information, telling the story of Inter Press Service (IPS) in a lucid and engaging style.
While this book is expected to be published by Amazon in May 2012, its Italian edition I giornalisti che ribaltarono il mondo by Nuovi Mondi has been on the shelves since November 2011. A Spanish edition is under preparation.
Savio – an eminent Italian/Argentine journalist – perceives the book as “a joint history”, “a large quilt made of the stories and faces of people from different continents, with different lives, but united by the same commitment: to renew the world of information, making it more plural and more just.”
