|
|
Election coverage and Murphy’s Law |
|
|
By ICFJ /East Timor Staff on
10/9/2009
|
|
|
|
The best laid plans can unravel so quickly.
ICFJ had been planning the coverage of the local Timorese elections, to be held today, October 9th, for the past two months or so. Journalists had been trained and then dispatched throughout the country. The media houses, with their high-speed internet connections, were staging areas for the stories to be filed from the districts back to Dili.
|
 |
|
Comments (0)
|
More...
|
|
|
|
Baucau Media Center Officially Opens! |
|
|
By ICFJ /East Timor Staff on
8/21/2009
|
|
|
|
Hours before the official opening of the Baucau Media House on Wednesday, August 19, two reporters were huddled in front of Mac editing a story. ICFJ’s Marcelino Pereira was assisting student Alexandrina de Sa with her story about local produce.
|
|
|
|
Comments (0)
|
More...
|
|
|
48 Hours in Oecussi |
|
|
By ICFJ /East Timor Staff on
8/8/2009
|
|
|
|
Oecussi is an enclave isolated from the rest of Timor-Leste by Indonesia and the sea. There are three ways to get there: overland, the ferry or fly. I chose option three. It’s a 50 minute flight from Dili – compared to an eight to ten hour ferry ride or a six or seven hour car trip.
|
|
|
|
Comments (0)
|
More...
|
|
|
ICFJ Staffer and Trainer Go Beyond the Call of Duty to Conduct a Journalism Training |
|
|
By ICFJ /East Timor Staff on
6/8/2009
|
|
|
|
ICFJ staffer Paulo Amaral and TOT Basilio “JoJo” da Costa traveled to Atauro Island in May to train high school students how to create wall newspapers. Ferry service is temporarily suspended, so Paulo and JoJo had to find another way to get there. The ferry ride normally takes about two hours, their trip in a small motorized fishing boat took about three hours. The boat is about three meters long and one meter wide.
Amazingly, neither of them got seasick, but both were extremely pleased when the boat docked at Atauro.
Below is Paulo’s account of their adventure.
|
|
|
|
Comments (0)
|
More...
|
|
|
|
|
|