R -- JOURNALISTS FOR ENGLISH AND FOREIGN LANGUAGE NEWS BROADCASTING

Notice Date

October 17, 2001

Contracting Office

Broadcasting Board of Governors, International Broadcasting Bureau, Office of Contracts (CON), 330 C Street, SW, Room 2500, Washington, DC 20237

ZIP Code

20237

Solicitation Number

n/a

Point of Contact

Geraldine P. Scott, telephone: (202) 401-7025

E-Mail Address

Click here to contact the Program Coordinator via (gpscott@VOANews.COM)

Description

The International Bureau of Broadcasting (IBB), and Voice of America (VOA) is seeking qualified individuals for free-lance journalist assignments in overseas areas not serviced by the VOA staff correspondents. The VOA broadcasts in English and 52 other languages. These languages are as follows: Afan Oromo, Albanian, Amharic, Arabic, Armenian, Azerbaijani, Bangla, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Burmese, Cantonese, Creole, Croatian, Czech, Dari, Estonian, Farsi, French, Georgian, Greek, Hausa, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Khmer, Kirundi, Kinyarwanda, Korean, Kurdish, Lao, Latvian, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Mandarin, Pashto, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovene, Spanish, Swahili, Thai, Tibetan, Tigrigna, Turkish, Ukrainian, Urdu, Uzbek, and Vietnamese. News reports submitted by free-lance journalists will be used in broadcasting to an international audience. General information follows: 1) Free-lance assignments are performed on contract basis; 2) Sources may be required to undergo a background security investigation and successfully pass the security clearance process in order to receive work assignments; 3) Contractor candidates must be willing to work on an "as-required" basis, depending on when VOA requires the filing of news stories; 4) Free-lance assignments are only requested as needed. VOA makes no guarantees on the amount of work contractors can expect to receive; 5) The Government is obligated to inspect all contractor performed work to insure that it fully satisfies the Government's requirements. The Government is further obligated to reject all work that fails to meet Government-specified requirements. The following criteria will be used to evaluate prospective contractors: 1) Newspaper, wire service,Internet news writer, radio or television experience; 2) Experience in writing news for broadcast; 3) Extensive knowledge of target broadcast language; 4) Ability to produce work which demonstrates a keen knowledge of national and international issues; 5) Ability to explain complex issues in clear, logical terms that can be understood by worldwide audience. 6) Ability to research, select and prepare material to provide background and highlight key elements of VOA web news reports, prepare and encode multimedia enhancements and, request and coordinate the preparation and encoding of additional streamed media. Ensure compliance with copy right restrictions. 7) Knowledge or principle and practices of journalistic writing and Internet publishing. Individuals having the ability to furnish the above-stated services should write and request additional information from: International Broadcasting Bureau (IBB),Voice of America, ATTENTION: Project Coordinator, Geraldine P. Scott, VOA/A, Room 1728, 330 Independence Avenue, SW, Washington, D.C. 20237.

Record

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