AT&T-Funded Course To Empower Brazilian Journalists

By: Patrick Butler | 10/31/2011

The International Center for Journalists (ICFJ) is now receiving applications for a new AT&T-funded online course on public service journalism. The course will teach 40 Brazilian journalists how to use digital tools to produce multimedia projects on critical public interest issues affecting impoverished communities.

The five-week online course called “Digital Tools for Effective Public Service Journalism” is scheduled to start February 27, 2012. Forty journalists will learn how to apply digital technologies to their day-to-day work and to deliver quality, ethical information to their audiences using the latest tools and trends.

The deadline to apply is January 30.

This is the fourth ICFJ program that AT&T has supported for Latin American journalists. Journalists in past projects have produced multimedia stories on community issues such as basic city services, federal money distribution and river pollution. AT&T funded a similar course run by ICFJ for Spanish-speaking journalists at the Digital Journalism Center at the University of Guadalajara in Mexico.

For more information about the course visit International Center for Journalists.

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