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Community radio class graduates, staff takes a sea voyage
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Location: Blogs Staff Blog for the Timor-Leste Media Program |
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| Posted by: ICFJ /East Timor Staff |
10/23/2008 |
Community radio managers from across Timor-Leste complete their first round of training, and plan for a second to start in November
For months, journalists from stations in all corners of Timor-Leste had been traveling by microlet to get to weekly training at ICFJ's Dili office. On Friday, Oct. 17, it all paid off as they were presented with certificates at a festive tea organized by the ICFJ operations staff.
That Friday marked the end of a particularly busy week for the Dili office, as more than 25 journalists crowded into four days of training provided by the NGO La'o Hamutuk on how to report on the annual budget. (The large number of visitors gave us the chance to inaugurate a monster new coffee pot, so we can now make masses of fresh Timorese coffee...)
So everybody was ready for a combined business-pleasure trip on Saturday, Oct. 18, when a dozen staffers boarded the ferry Nakroma for a two-hour ride out to the island of Atauro, which lies in the Andaman Sea directly north of Dili. As guests of Brazilian journalist Joana Saraiva, who lives on the island part-time and produces a small community newspaper, they visited the island's tiny short-wave radio station and launched a plan to upgrade it.
A smaller group attended a dinner hosted by the Center for Investigative Journalism in Timor-Leste, which has moved to larger quarters at the anti-corruption NGO LABEH. CJITL head Gil da Silva conducted a training for members based on materials he collected at the Global Investigative Journalism Conference in Lillehammer, Norway.
As the month drew to a close, Dave, Jody, Gabriela and Paula took turns instructing a group of media lawyers on libel law and the many ways things can go wrong at news outlets. Marcellino of Special Projects hosted an interesting Meet the Press session featuring the Minister of Health.
Emanuel, who is working part-time so he can meet deadlines on his doctoral thesis in Australia, began planning for his new sideline as professor at UNTL's new one-year journalism program, an outgrowth of the three-month pilot program that concluded last month.
Finally, the staff sends best wishes to Hans Staiger and Vjollca Shtylla on their wedding in Washington, and also to Oscar Lusio, who is in Australia for a month getting technical training on the new V-Sat systems. Everybody misses Oscar! |
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