International aid agencies often claim to give the poor and disenfranchised a voice by helping them tell their stories to others located far away. But how do aid workers conceptualize and operationalize a politics of voice within media production processes? How do ideas about giving voice to others shape aid agencies’ engagement with mainstream news organizations? This article explores two contrasting news production case studies which took place in South Sudan and Mali, involving Save the Children, Christian Aid and their local partners. It finds that different approaches to giving voice exist in aid work, creating tensions within and between agencies. In addition commercialized notions of value for money, the influence of mediated donor reporting, and aid workers’ weak understandings of linguistic and intercultural interpretation combined to make aid agencies’ values-in-action far less empowering than they assumed.

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“帮助我们的受益人讲述他们自己的故事？” 国际援助机构和新闻制作中的声音政治

国际援助机构经常声称通过帮助穷人和被剥夺权利的人向远方的其他人讲述他们的故事，让他们有发言权。但是，援助工作者如何在媒体制作过程中概念化和实施声音政治？为他人发声的想法如何影响援助机构与主流新闻机构的互动？本文探讨了发生在南苏丹和马里的两个对比鲜明的新闻制作案例研究，涉及救助儿童会、基督教援助会及其当地合作伙伴。它发现在援助工作中存在不同的表达意见的方法，造成机构内部和机构之间的紧张局势。此外，物有所值的商业化概念、中介捐助者报告的影响、