Mainstream Media Collaborations

Video Volunteers’ vision of empowering the poor to bring about meaningful change in their lives is not only proving to be scalable, it also creates engaging content the world has never seen. Video Volunteers has partnered with big names in the media industry like CNN, Current TV, and MTV Networks to bring interesting and unique content, produced by the marginalised, to an audience that is hungry for new perspectives, ideas and solutions.

If you are a media house curious to know how community-produced content could enhance your programming, please contact us to discuss how we can work together.  Our community network produces high quality work tailored to your needs, specifications and style. Some of our current and former partners include:

Youth Ki Awaaz
	Mouthpiece of the Nation’s Youth speaks out through the voices of our correspondents
Halabol
	Popular Youth and Social Change portal features some of our most powerful videos
Tehelka
	IndiaUnheard Videos are featured on the website of India’s #1 Independent news Weekly.
CNN – IBN
	Videos produced by Video Volunteers’ Community Coespondents regularly feature on the leading news channel CNN-IBN as part of the award winning and acclaimed CJ Show.
One Day on Earth
	IndiaUnheard correspondents participated in 10.10.10 – a global effort to help document the world’s story. With thousands of submissions from across the globe, our correspondents documented life in some of the most remote parts of India ensuring their communities were included in this seminal event.
Life in a Day
	Our correspondents submitted footage to be part of the 80,000 submissions that were uploaded to create a crowd-sourced documentary by the director Kevin MacDonald documenting one day on earth._____________________________________________________
News X
	NewsX is one of India’s leading 24 hour news channels. NewsX is currently airing Speak Out India that has video reports by Video Volunteers’ nationwide network of  community correspondents. Speak Out India is India’s first community news program on television. The Show plays on Saturday and on Sunday.____________________________________________________
MSN India
	MSN India’s latest online channel Leadcap features videos produced by Video Volunteers’ IndiaUnheard community correspondents from across India. The videos are the first news stories told by communities that were previously unheard and invisible to the media.
CNN-IBN
	The Indian CNN affiliate, CNN-IBN, a leader in participatory journalism, features a program where the “common person” can tell his or her story. For this initiative Video Volunteers shot impact pieces where our producers developed stories including one on sexual harassment that led to the city of Mumbai creating a helpline for women who are being harassed and another on trash collection which led to trash bins being introduced to the slums of Bombay.
MTV Iggy
	Video Volunteers, in partnership with MTV Iggy, brought uncensored access to Kashmiri voices from the refugee camps of Jammu and Kashmir. Kashmiri youth spoke directly of their shocking experiences: Sunil walks us through daily life in the Jammu refugee camps, Mohan explains how religious tensions led to the slaughter of his entire family, and Deepika tells us about her childhood in a refugee camp. We were pleased to partner with MTV Iggy to help raise awareness in Kashmir by including a key group in the discussion – the unheard voices of the displaced poor. As a result of this partnership, media produced by some of the world’s most disadvantaged communities was delivered to a global audience. These videos received the most views of the entire campaign, really resonating with the youth audience.
Nickelodeon
	Nickelodeon collaborated with Video Volunteers on their news special, The Untouchable Kids of India. Here Nick News shared with American kids, “What’s it like to be a Dalit kid?” and offered a first-hand look into the world of the Dalits, highlighting how many are now refusing to be victims.  Neeru, a Video Volunteers community video producer, discussed her efforts to educate both Dalits and non-Dalits through her films, many of which are designated “controversial” and banned, though it hasn’t stopped her from continuing to make films. As quoted in the Nick News piece, Neeru says, “When I see the work which is being done, I am proud about it. Even I can do something. I am worth something.”
Pangea Day
	Video Volunteers’ Community Producers shot cell phone videos that were broadcast all over the world via the internet, television, digital cinemas, and mobile phones as part of Pangea Day, a four hour global television broadcast, for peace and inspiration, airing from Cairo, Kigali, London, Mumbai, and Rio de Janeiro. Pangea Day donated 40 Nokia cell phones to Video Volunteers, with which the producers made videos on different universal themes such as love, friendship and hope.
Goodness TV
	GoodnessTV is an video sharing website dedicated to people who make a positive difference in this world. Video Volunteers’ community videos are regularly featured here.
Alternative Channel
	Alternativechannel.tv is an independent television-over-internet news channel webcasting high quality documentaries and videos. Alternative has featured several videos by Video Volunteers in its ‘Sustainable Development’ and ‘Green Living’ sections.
Current TV
	The video  Movies Moving Mountains aired on Current TV, the American cable station that was set up by former U.S. Vice-President, Al Gore.  The Channel features ‘viewer created content’ from across the globe.  Current TV is also expanding to other countries, such as its addition to the United Kingdom.
The Weekend Leader.Com

	The Weekend Leader.com (TWL) is a pioneer in positive journalism – a one of its kind media venture managed by experienced journalists with a self-imposed mandate to focus exclusively on positive news and features. TWL was launched in September 2010 by former Tehelka reporter P C Vinoj Kumar.