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 The International Center for Journalists (ICFJ) will offer two online courses for community radio journalists this summer. The courses are free and will take place in July and August. The deadline to apply is June 15 for the July course. The courses will be conducted in Spanish and are intended for community radio journalists from the US and from Latin America who are interested in learning new digital tools.
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.JPG) The International Center for Journalists (ICFJ) is currently offering two online courses for U.S. journalists on using multimedia tools. The courses are for Hispanic and minority journalists in the U.S., and will be conducted in English and Spanish. They will focus on a variety of multimedia offerings – from audio slideshows to Google mash-ups to data visualization tools. The four week courses will have a special focus on using multimedia and digital tools to cover personal finance issues, and will start on June 28 and last until July 21. Deadline to apply: June 24.
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 Deadline: May 28, 2010
As part of the Escucha! Taking Community Radio Digital in the Americas program, ICFJ will offer two online courses to train community, each for 25 Hispanic journalists . The courses will incorporate the materials covered during the conference, which will extend the benefits of that training to a multitude of journalists who did not attend.
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 Deadline: May 15
The Scripps Immigration training program will bring together 10 journalists from the U.S. Spanish and English-language media for a week-long training on how to cover immigration issues using new digital platforms. Last year's conference and training workshop included immigration reporting; panelists included key immigration policy makers, researchers, and representatives of pro and anti-immigration groups as well as leading editors and reporters from the U.S. and Latin America.
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 The International Center for Journalists (ICFJ) is now offering two online courses in English and Spanish on covering personal finance for Hispanic journalists and US journalists covering finance issues for minority and immigrant communities. The courses are scheduled to start on April 16 and end on July 28.
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Deadlines: April 30, 2010
ICFJ brings two journalism students per year to participate in the Scripps Howard Semester in Washington internship program.
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.JPG) In a six-day regional, training conference, eighteen radio journalists, nine from Latin America and nine from the U.S. Spanish-language media, will learn new trends in digital radio news production and current issues, such as health, education, trade, and the environment, that affect the immigrant communities in the United States as well as people in the immigrants’ homelands.
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 Knight International is working with the University of Guadalajara, one of the country's largest educational institutions, to produce a new generation of digitally savvy journalists throughout Latin America. Knight Fellow James Breiner has created the Digital Journalism Center, the first of its kind in the region. The Center provides online and in-person courses on the latest trends and tools in online media.
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 Knight International will expand coverage of the plight of the country's poorest citizens using cell phone technology and other multi-media tools. Fellow Bruno Garcez will work with professional and citizen journalists to produce stories on land reform, hunger and other key issues. He will then work with major news organizations in different cities to carry these reports. The goal: To inspire better policies that alleviate poverty. The project begins in Fall 2009.
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The four-week fellowship program will begin with a four-day orientation and professional program for the participant in Washington, D.C. The journalist then will depart for a two-to-three-week assignment in the newsroom of a Spanish-language media organization in the United States. At the conclusion of the professional newsroom attachments, the fellow will attend a wrap-up and evaluation program which will include trainer-training techniques.
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