For several decades the U.S. Secret Service collects information from around the world. Media reports, reports of expert researchers, official speeches. In Kenya, North Korea, Spain or Argentina. Now the Commerce Department that content sold through the online edition World News Connection. The tracking process begins with news that makes the DNI, through the CIA and the Open Source Center (OSC) throughout the world.
The material, whose first recipient are all U.S. government agencies, is archived in a number of databases. ProQuest and Dialog companies hosting the content on their servers and sell access to the publication through subscriptions. There are a total of 1,750 publications, newspapers, journals, audio-visual broadcasts, websites and blogs-from 130 countries.
The secret services do the translation into English and information is available to government employees. The Department of Commerce, as the Wall Street Journalla unveiled last week, distributes World News Connection. "One of the objectives of this organization is to get citizens the information available to the government," said John Hounsell, project worker.
The process to obtain and the work they do after the secret service is funded with public money and the citizens have to pay a second time. "In a way, this content commercially is a way of responding to critics who argue that because the CIA, which belongs to the OSC, is funded by taxpaying citizens, the public should be entitled to see what produced by the intelligence services, "said Peter Feuilherade, journalist for the International Service and BBC Monitoring and writer specializing in the Middle East.
Hounsell acknowledges that the Government uses significant resources in information around the world, translated and analyzed. "But there are copyright laws that protect the public, so we charge again," he says. The Commerce Department manages the licenses. Hounsell contact with the media and authors of publications and requests permission-and price-to market the content.
"Most do not answer," he says. Have already gained access to more than 500 sources around the world. If the source is denied, the data are removed for the World News Connection subscribers can not access them. Dialog, a company that contributes to support the publication, would not explain at what point the government had contacted them to start this project.
"We have access platform for 10 years, they sought a distribution channel and a search system for their databases," said Libby Trudell, Dialog senior vice president commercial. According to the Wall Street Journal subscribers pay $ 300 a year for access to World News Connection to four dollars for each file accessed.
Hounsell not confirmed to El Pais, arguing that the payment varies depending on the subscriber. "I think the most interesting is to find things that do not speak the media or that are not contaminated by the views of the West," said Hounsell. Not worried about the power of the network or the availability of some data on other media.
"Most of the content is in English. The interest of this service to our sources is that many users do not find any other way." Feuilherade also states that not everything offered by World News Connection is available online or can be easily found. "Its value lies in that experts from each agency made a selection of the best material, the translation is done by experts and articles and speeches are translated literally." Since 1943, U.S.
and UK exchange content via BBC Monitoring, tracking program on British television, and the Foreign Service U.S. Information Relay, which is now called Open Source Center. Feuilherade, who worked for the British, explained that the exchange is free. While the BBC has historically focused on Central Asia, Afghanistan and Russia, the OSC covers Asia and Latin America.
Both share publications exploring Africa, the Middle East and Europe. The collaboration began during World War II to share intercepted messages to Germany and Japan. After the war it expanded to the rest of the world. Translate news and speeches from international leaders and audiovisual reports and local newspapers and magazines.
Since the existence of the Internet, also track pages, blogs and social networks. Now the aim is to warn of changes or trends in countries that normally fall outside traditional sources. "The degree of political and linguistic experience of these experts is not comparable to that in the newsrooms of media across the world, which must also cover the news in a more general" argues Feuilherade.
The British argued that international media, governments and organizations with access to information could detect major policy changes before they emerge as news and in places you can not move easily. Also know what tracks the U.S. government publications and has decided to market or not.
But World News Connection runs the risk of too high a price to the public. So far the customers are mostly from the scientific community, the scope of research and development and large corporations. The new platform is creating Dialog will content to universities and public libraries that subscribe to the service.
"Our goal is that more people have access to this information," says Trudell. Reducing the price will be key to the success of World News Connection, as vice president of Dialog. "The goal is to create a system where users can do a search and pay for the item that interests them. Now only makes sense if there is a continuing need." 
The material, whose first recipient are all U.S. government agencies, is archived in a number of databases. ProQuest and Dialog companies hosting the content on their servers and sell access to the publication through subscriptions. There are a total of 1,750 publications, newspapers, journals, audio-visual broadcasts, websites and blogs-from 130 countries.
The secret services do the translation into English and information is available to government employees. The Department of Commerce, as the Wall Street Journalla unveiled last week, distributes World News Connection. "One of the objectives of this organization is to get citizens the information available to the government," said John Hounsell, project worker.
The process to obtain and the work they do after the secret service is funded with public money and the citizens have to pay a second time. "In a way, this content commercially is a way of responding to critics who argue that because the CIA, which belongs to the OSC, is funded by taxpaying citizens, the public should be entitled to see what produced by the intelligence services, "said Peter Feuilherade, journalist for the International Service and BBC Monitoring and writer specializing in the Middle East.
Hounsell acknowledges that the Government uses significant resources in information around the world, translated and analyzed. "But there are copyright laws that protect the public, so we charge again," he says. The Commerce Department manages the licenses. Hounsell contact with the media and authors of publications and requests permission-and price-to market the content.
"Most do not answer," he says. Have already gained access to more than 500 sources around the world. If the source is denied, the data are removed for the World News Connection subscribers can not access them. Dialog, a company that contributes to support the publication, would not explain at what point the government had contacted them to start this project.
"We have access platform for 10 years, they sought a distribution channel and a search system for their databases," said Libby Trudell, Dialog senior vice president commercial. According to the Wall Street Journal subscribers pay $ 300 a year for access to World News Connection to four dollars for each file accessed.
Hounsell not confirmed to El Pais, arguing that the payment varies depending on the subscriber. "I think the most interesting is to find things that do not speak the media or that are not contaminated by the views of the West," said Hounsell. Not worried about the power of the network or the availability of some data on other media.
"Most of the content is in English. The interest of this service to our sources is that many users do not find any other way." Feuilherade also states that not everything offered by World News Connection is available online or can be easily found. "Its value lies in that experts from each agency made a selection of the best material, the translation is done by experts and articles and speeches are translated literally." Since 1943, U.S.
and UK exchange content via BBC Monitoring, tracking program on British television, and the Foreign Service U.S. Information Relay, which is now called Open Source Center. Feuilherade, who worked for the British, explained that the exchange is free. While the BBC has historically focused on Central Asia, Afghanistan and Russia, the OSC covers Asia and Latin America.
Both share publications exploring Africa, the Middle East and Europe. The collaboration began during World War II to share intercepted messages to Germany and Japan. After the war it expanded to the rest of the world. Translate news and speeches from international leaders and audiovisual reports and local newspapers and magazines.
Since the existence of the Internet, also track pages, blogs and social networks. Now the aim is to warn of changes or trends in countries that normally fall outside traditional sources. "The degree of political and linguistic experience of these experts is not comparable to that in the newsrooms of media across the world, which must also cover the news in a more general" argues Feuilherade.
The British argued that international media, governments and organizations with access to information could detect major policy changes before they emerge as news and in places you can not move easily. Also know what tracks the U.S. government publications and has decided to market or not.
But World News Connection runs the risk of too high a price to the public. So far the customers are mostly from the scientific community, the scope of research and development and large corporations. The new platform is creating Dialog will content to universities and public libraries that subscribe to the service.
"Our goal is that more people have access to this information," says Trudell. Reducing the price will be key to the success of World News Connection, as vice president of Dialog. "The goal is to create a system where users can do a search and pay for the item that interests them. Now only makes sense if there is a continuing need."
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