The Press Institute for Women in the Developing World “trains women in developing countries to serve as reporters and writers in their own communities.” This is where the rubber meets the road for citizen journalism — where people who have something important to say finally get a platform, a channel, in which to publish and [...]
The One Laptop Per Child program has my full support. But my support, unfortunately, is just a warm feeling in my heart. Jeff Jarvis has suggested that the project subsidize the distribution of laptops to children in developing countries by selling us wealthier folks the same laptops at an inflated price. Now the BBC reports [...]
Riverbend (of Baghdad Burning) reacts to the hanging of Saddam. She has this to say about the CNN coverage: Shame on you CNN journalists — you’re getting lazy. The least you can do is get the last words correct when you write a story about an execution. Your articles are read the world over and [...]
Arab and American journalists can learn more about one another via Interchange, hosted by the International Journalists’ Network (IJNet). Topics include misperceptions, stereotypes, religion, ethics and professional standards. Interchange is the outcome of a conference organized by the International Center for Journalists (ICFJ) in late 2005. The “Bridging the Gap” conference brought together 22 Arab [...]
I like to catch Frontline/World on PBS, and with a little help from TiVo, I was lucky enough to see three attention-gripping documentary shorts earlier this week. Now I just found a news item that says all three shorts were made by recent graduates of the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California [...]
Via the International Journalists’ Network: Latin American journalists interested in improving their understanding of Internet technology in reporting are eligible to attend a seminar in San Juan, Puerto Rico. The event is scheduled for July 21 and 22.The Latin American journalism center CELAP is organizing the seminar. Among the themes are editing stories for the [...]
I love how the Internet helps me broaden my world. Today, for example, as I was catching up on my blog feeds, I found an essay by an Egyptian journalist, Fatemah Farag, at the PBS Frontline/World site. Fatemah Farag is a senior journalist at Al-Ahram Weekly in Cairo. She has written extensively about police repression, [...]