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Building Better Media in Timor-Leste

ICFJ trainer Paula Rodrigues, right, helps student Melina Soares present the first live broadcast of Radio Akademika, TL's first university-run station.

The International Center for Journalists’ project in Dili, Timor-Leste, is working to develop a strong, professional and sustainable media sector. Goals include improving the ability of Timorese journalists to produce and disseminate high quality news and information to all citizens of Timor-Leste.

ICFJ is training current and future journalists as well as helping them to draft a comprehensive media law that will protect freedom of speech and freedom of information for print, broadcast and online journalists.

Since Timor-Leste became a nation in 2002, its fledgling news media has suffered crippling setbacks, including the violence that gripped the nation after Prime Minister Mari Alkatiri was forced to resign in June 2006 and a near-fatal attack on President Jose Ramos-Horta in February 2008.

During the 2006 violence RTTL, the national broadcaster, came under attack and the Timor Post ceased publication for several days when staff members fled the capital for safety in the nearby mountains.

Program News

ICFJ Launches Online Video News Service With Coverage Across Timor-Leste

The audience at the March 13 launch included Australian Ambassador Peter Heyward and US Charge D'Affaires Henry Rector

Dili, Timor-Leste – Nearly one hundred people attended ICFJ’s March 13 launch of the first-ever online video news service for Timor-Leste.

The service provides a 30-minute package of timely news that is updated once a week. Accessed at the Web site: www.timortoday.com, the service offers stories that touch the daily lives of the people of Timor-Leste. The program was created by the International Center for Journalists (ICFJ) with grants from USAID and AusAID. Read More...

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Country Director Charles Rice Delivers Address to the CJITL Congress

ICFJ's Country Director in Timor-Leste, Charles Rice, was recently invited to address the first-ever Congress of the Center for Timor-Leste Investigative Journalists. With an audience of about 30 journalists, Rice covered the role that journalists, particularly investigative journalists, play in society. He also urged reporters to make their voices heard when the draft for the new Media Law comes up for discussion in Parliament in late March. Read More...

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UN Mission in East Timor Covers ICFJ Training in Baucau

Feb 23 – ICFJ’s newly launched media house in Baucau, East Timor was prominently featured this week in the United Nations Integrated Mission in Timor-Leste weekly newsletter. ICFJ trainer Paulo Amaral told the newsletter that such training is crucial to achieving high quality journalism in the region. Read More...

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ICFJ Trainees Learn About TV Production - And Barking Dogs

Olga Guterres reads the script as Josefina da Costa holds the microphone and Alexandrina holds the camera. It was quiet in the ICFJ vehicle.

by Charles S. Rice

Olga Guterres found a solution to the barking dogs and crowing roosters that kept spoiling her narration of a television story—a sound-proof booth.

In her case, it was a relatively low-tech booth: one of the International Center for Journalists' sports-utility vehicles. Climbing into the car’s relative quiet, Guterres and Alexandrina de Sa recorded the narration without distracting animal noises.

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