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Baucau media house is up and running |
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By ICFJ /East Timor Staff on
2/28/2008
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By Dave Bloss
This week's highlight was a road trip to Baucau on Feb. 21-23, where country director Bloss, special projects team coordinator Francez Suni, IT specialist Oscar Lusio Selly and Logistics Assistant Julio Mantalvao de Jesus checked out the new Baucau Media House.
The internet-equipped newsroom was established by ICFJ, the journalism associations of Timor Leste and Development Alternatives Inc. (DAI) so journalists from the country's eastern three districts can report and transmit news to ...
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Shooting means Timorese journalists, ICFJ staff weather a tough week |
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By ICFJ /East Timor Staff on
2/17/2008
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The news that President Jose Ramos Horta had been shot was staggeringly unexpected, the kind of shock that makes your legs feel like rubber. It came early Monday morning, and most of ICFJ's employees in Timor-Leste were still drinking coffee and thinking about getting ready for work.
The expatriate staff heard about it on CNN, while the Timorese staff heard it in a variety of ways, including face-to-face conversations with friends and relatives, telephone calls, and SMS messages. We didn't think about it at the time, but that's a telling assessment of the state of media in Timor-Leste--the grapevine still works faster than established media.
Instantly, all our training plans ...
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