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The Challenge and Opportunities of Digital Journalism
Oct. - Dec., 2008
The first online course offering of the ICFJ-sponsored Digital Journalism Center for Latin America began Oct. 12 with 50 students enrolled from 10 countries.
The five-week online course, entirely in Spanish, will be followed by three days of in-person training in December in Guadalajara.
The Digital Journalism Center is a joint project of the International Center for Journalists and the University of Guadalajara. Knight Fellow James Breiner is director of the center and prepared the first course, which is aimed at editors, “The Challenge and Opportunities of Digital Journalism.”
Countries represented are: Brazil, Bolivia, Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Honduras, Mexico (nine states), Peru and the U.S. There is a waiting list of 70.
The three days of in-person training in December will consist of training in hands-on technical skills by three experts in the field: Hiram Enriquez, director of programming, Yahoo Hispanic Americas; Hilda Garcia, multimedia journalism expert and former editor of CNNExpansión.com; and Pedro Armendares, executive director for the Center for Investigative Journalists in Mexico.
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Apply Now!
Program Dates:
October 12- December 2008
For more information contact:
James Breiner
Knight International Journalism Fellow
Email: jbreiner@knight.icfj.org
Phone: 202-737-7300
Address: 1616 H St. NW 3rd Fl.
Washington, DC 20006
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Program Staff:
 James Breiner was a business journalist for 19 of his 32 years in the news business, first as editor of a weekly in Columbus, Ohio, and then 11 years as president and publisher of the weekly Baltimore Business Journal, with a 30-person staff and readership of 65,000 in Baltimore, Md. Read more...
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