Malta - Daniel Rondeau - Writer and French ambassador to Malta

"Thalassa l'Expédition : escale à Malte" - Thalassa- France3

Malta - "L'Europe du Sud : Malte, Gozo et Filfola" - France 3

Malta - "Small island nation" - Geo Quiz - PRI's The World

Cyprus - "UN deminer killed in Cyprus" - Europe World

Cyprus - "Cyta reveals subsea expansion" - CommsDay

Malta - "Gambling Revenue"

Cyprus - "Cyprus' tourism revenue down 16.1% in first nine months" - Xinhua

Malta - "Malta as a potential ‘Bahrain in the Mediterranean’" - Independent

Sicily - "In Sicily, Renovating a Cave" - NYTimes.com

"Tackling climate change" - TImesofMalta.com

Region - "Odyssey of Boat Carryiling 200 Migrants Continues" - ANSAmed

Cyprus - "20 years after Berlin Wall fell, Nicosia remains divided" - AFP

Region - "Mediterranean Union is stalled indefinitely" - TimesofMalta.com

Sardinia - "Does the Sardinian Diet Hold the Secret to Longevity?" - ABC News

Corsica - "Prudhomme Inspects Corsica For 2013 Tour Start" - Cyclingnews.com

Sardinia - "The Sardinian Diet: Wine, Bread and Cheese" - Slashfood

Malta - "Mediterranean island at luxury end of the market" - Investment International

Cyprus - "Climate change threatens Cyprus with drought" - PRI's The World

Cyprus - "Italy-Cyprus: Kyprianou, we want a European Turkey" - ANSAmed

Italian islands - "Demography: Population Growth on Small Italian Islands" - ANSAmed

Corsica - "Ageing French hunters target young blood" - AFP

Menorca and Majorca - "Sun Break: Direct Flights to Majorca and Menorca Planned" - IsleofMan.com

Frioul - "Procès des navettes du Frioul : "Non, les Pipolo ne sont pas des voyous !"" - La Provence

Patmos - "'Opa!' is as flat as its Greek island setting is beautiful" -- latimes.com

Mallorca - "Boy band singer Gately dies on vacation" - The Olympian - Olympia, Washington

Lampedusa - "We can do better than Italy's warehousing on Lampedusa"

Cyprus - "The Cypriot Stumbling Block" - PoliGazette

Sicily - "Italian delights: Six things you must do in Sicily" - Mail Online

Corsica - "Golfe de Porto : six miraculés après un amerrissage forcé" - corsematin.com

This is a good example of an important and miraculous story covered by one of the island media, in this case Corse Matin. It's the story (in French) of the rescue of 6 people whose small plane crashed into the Mediterranean off Corsica.

Corsica - "Carte Club Privilège" at Corse-Matin

Corse Matin offers a fidelity card to its readers called the Carte Club Privilege.

"Espresso News" from the Times of Malta

This is linked from the home page and is promoted as "our top stories while your drink your espresso".

"Difficile consensus européen sur la baisse des émissions du CO² dans le maritime" - Econostrum.info

Purpose of this blog

The media on the islands of the Mediterranean Sea do not generally talk with one another, and so this blog is intended to create and promote that connection for the benefit of those media and the people and organizations that they serve.