<h3>Two new members</h3>

Two new contributing members have joined the network this week. Nino Kopaleishvili, executive editor of The Messenger, an independent English-language newspaper in Georgia, former USSR. She is also a political reporter for The Messenger. And Tess Bedico. Tess works as a political reporter for a news daily, People’s Journal that is based in the Philippines. She has been with the paper since 1990 but started her journalism career working for various newspapers since 1987.

"Fact that is fact every day is not news; it's truth. We report news, not truth": Linda Ellerbee

"To see what is in front of one's nose needs a constant struggle." -- George Orwell
My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way. --Ernest Hemingway
Punctuation is the sound of your voice on paper. --Joseph Collignan
Internet publishing can be more powerful than print journalism, given its immediacy and lack of corporate or governmental filters. --Dave Winer

The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read. --Oscar Wilde