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Tinker tailor soldier spy, where does my future lie?

We are pursuing a great story: More than a hundred teen girls are having fainting spells in a school outside Maputo. The community says ancestors are upset and rituals need to be performed. The Ministry of Health says it is collective hysteria.

A young journalist that I coach is covering this story.  After a press conference at the Ministry of Health, we go for coffee to discuss story angles, ways of asking questions and of taking notes (he takes notes verbatim and slowly, and admires my arrows, bullets and shortcuts, capturing best quotes as they are spoken).

Endless Possibilities of the New Media

Editors Note: Ghana's Sylvia Vollenhoven attends Knight Foundations/MIT COnference on the Future of News and Civic Media 2010.

My career started on the media timeline with yellow copy paper in triplicate and an Olivetti typewriter. In my son’s book this era followed shortly after the Gutenberg Bible. I am now at a place where the possibilities stretch into infinity and I’m not sure my head can hold it all or that we’re still talking linear progress here.

Journalists working at the Panama provinces will receive an uncommon training opportunity

Freelance journalists working in the Panama provinces are usually the last ones to receive training and support.

Enabling India's Most Isolated Regions to Produce and Deliver News

As a Knight International Journalism fellow, I am working on a project that uses mobile technology to enable citizens in India’s most isolated regions to produce and deliver news.

I am sending along a video from a Citizen Journalism Training Workshop we organized in February 2010 in Kunkuri Chhattisgarh. We trained 33 tribal citizens on basics of journalism and on how to report using mobile phones.

In Chhattisgarh there are no tribal journalists or journalists who understand the tribal languages in the state.

Sound + vision

For the third consecutive week, we had a high attendance rate, except for a few colleagues who were unable to come for health reasons. Those who couldn't attend have already sent emails asking to be updated on the content and pitching the stories that were asked in class.

Journalists, non profits, citizens working together in Panama

A big coalition of journalists, citizens and civil society organizations is being formed in Panama to track and reduce crime and corruption and prompt better governmental policies. 

It's been just a few weeks since our Website Mi Panama Transparente was launched to help journalists track crime and corruption using advanced online tools.

Para periodistas independientes, 14 ideas para generar ingresos

En un curso que dicto sobre "Nuevos modelos de financiamiento del periodismo", presento una serie de innovaciones en el negocio del periodismo o nuevas applicaciones de estrategias probadas.

Por la frecuencia con que se pregunta sobre esto, les comparto algunos. Si ustedes se enteran de más ejemplos, por favor ¡compártanlos!

Lo nuevo y lo probado

-- La venta de servicios relacionados a la comunicación, como el hospedaje de sitios Web, la administración de sitios web, asesoría en comunicación digital, etc.

Second class, crowded room

For the second week in a row we had a packed room.

A group of 20 students from peripheral areas of São Paulo filled a room with only 14 computers on a gloriously sunny Sunday, and in the middle of the World Cup - worth noting that Brazil wasn't playing, though.

We touched on quite a few topics on this second lesson.

Proyecto Tascón: Practicopedia, con guías útiles, logra rentabilidad

El ex-editor del medio español destacado prisa.com ha fundado tres medios digitales que atraen mucha atención por sus inovaciones.

Periodistas mexicanos aprenden acerca de cobertura segura

Unos 24 periodistas asistieron a un curso presencial del Centro de Periodismo Digital sobre cómo protegerse mientras producen reportes sobre el narcotráfico y la corrupción.

Durante el curso de dos días, ellos mismos crearon las pautas de autoprotección y los estándares profesionales y éticos para seguir. Le Embajada de Estados Unidos patrocinó el curso, y los maestros fueron los periodistas destacados Jorge Luis Sierra y Darío Dávila.