IJNet chatted with Knight International Journalism Fellow and World Media Academy Dean Siddhartha Dubey to find out about the latest projects and what the school has in store for the next semester.
Journalists from developing countries, Russia and the U.S. can apply for a fellowship to cover the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Doha, Qatar.
The Felix Varela Award for Excellence in American Journalism will give four US$10,000 prizes to the best Spanish or English-language articles published in U.S. media.
Arab journalism students from Lebanon, Jordan, Morocco, the Palestinian Territories, Algeria, Egypt, Iraq, Syria and Tunisia can apply to attend a human rights seminar in Beirut.
Ten citizen journalists will receive a Looxcie hands-free video camera, wide angle lens and live streaming services as part of a six-month reporting program.
When state-controlled media can no longer regulate the flow of information due to social media, a tidal shift is in the making. That's one of the takeaways from a recent conference which gathered 200 journalism professionals at The Tsinghua University School of Journalism and Communication in Beijing, China.
While Google Search is the first tool most reporters use when researching a story, there is a wealth of information in the so-called "deep web," which is not indexed by search engines like Google and Bing. Knight International Journalism Fellow Sandra Crucianelli explains how reporters can unearth this information to break stories no one else has.
In Africa, where mobile news and digital innovation are growing but startup capital is too often scarce, innovators have a new opportunity to help reinvent media: the African News Innovation Challenge. IJNet talked with Knight International Journalism Fellow Justin Arenstein about why the contest is needed now.
In Africa, where mobile news and digital innovation are growing but startup capital is too often scarce, innovators have a new opportunity to help reinvent media: the African News Innovation Challenge. IJNet talked with Knight International Journalism Fellow Justin Arenstein about why the contest is needed now.
Namrata Acharya is a business journalist from India. Through IJNet, she earned a World Press Institute Fellowship and discovered a Reuters course on writing financial news.
The idea is quite enterprising as far as cost saving opportunity of an organization is concerned. But, it would be hard to verify the authenticity of the information and its source. More than that, it can also be said that it may pave the path for vested interests to come into picture and spread their own agenda.
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The idea is quite enterprising as far as cost saving opportunity of an organization is concerned. But, it would be hard to verify the authenticity of the information and its source. More than that, it can also be said that it may pave the path for vested interests to come into picture and spread their own agenda.