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ICFJ Knight Roundup: Low-cost News Apps Give Smaller Organizations a "Push"

As part of the Knight International Media Innovators blog, the ICFJ Knight team will round up stories focused on how their fellows are making an impact in the field. Find out more about the fellows' projects by clicking here.

New ICFJ Knight Fellows Foster Collaboration Between Journalists and Technologists

Technological innovations have created many opportunities for journalists to report and tell stories in new ways. As ICFJ Knight International Journalism Fellows, Adi Eyal and David Lemayian will help to spark collaborations between journalists and developers on health and development reporting projects across Africa.

ICFJ Knight Roundup: South African Drone Camp Takes Journalism to New Heights

As part of the Knight International Media Innovators blog, the ICFJ Knight team will round up stories focused on how their fellows are making an impact in the field. Find out more about the fellows' projects by clicking here.

Secure Messaging Apps: The Pros and Cons of Each Platform

Communicating with a sensitive source has always been difficult for journalists. Sources who reach out to the media are potentially putting themselves into dangerous situations, breaking contracts, breaking laws, breaking promises and breaking trust.

ICFJ Knight Roundup: Fellows Host "Steal My Tool" Event at IRE

As part of the Knight International Media Innovators blog, the ICFJ Knight team will round up stories focused on how their fellows are making an impact in the field. Find out more about the fellows' projects by clicking here.

Code for South Africa Brings Innovative Skills to Local Journalists With Data Academy

Former ICFJ Knight Fellow Raymond Joseph led the first cohort of the Code for South Africa Data-Driven Journalism Academy, instructing eight experienced local journalists on how to bolster their reporting with data.

impactAFRICA Offers Must-Know Tips for Covering Water, Sanitation

How can reporters make water and sanitation stories more interesting? How can they find the most useful data to explain these issues?

Univision Broadens Its Focus to Reach Spanish Speakers Around the Globe

Univision has been the most important Spanish-language media company in the U.S. Now its digital news arm is taking aim at the 500 million Spanish speakers around the world.

Borja Echevarria, its digital editor-in-chief, says his team is at the beginning of an initiative aimed at Spanish speakers in Latin America and globally.

"We are covering topics that might occur in Bolivia but that could be related to something that occurs in Colombia or in Peru," he said. "We are not trying to attack highly local topics, at least not in this first stage.

Journalists, Technologists Demo Open Source News Tools at IRE Conference

At the Investigative Reporters & Editors (IRE) conference this past weekend, journalists, news developers and technologists gathered in New Orleans for four days of sessions on investigative journalism in all its forms.

Amid this atmosphere of shared learning, exchange of ideas and collaboration, the ICFJ Knight International Journalism Fellowships program hosted another Steal My Tool event and luncheon during the conference.

Ahead of the event, IJNet and ICFJ Knight compiled 10 free, open source investiga

How Pakistan's Express Tribune Experimented with 360° Video

This month, we made the leap into 360° video, shooting the first such news video in Pakistan. As an ICFJ Knight Fellow, I worked in collaboration with The Express Tribune in Karachi to produce this groundbreaking video.

Much has already been said about virtual reality and 360° video in the news industry.