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Costa Rican Journalist Receives
Tom Brokaw Scholarship
Yumay Rincón Cuéllar of Capitales.com gets grant for Digital Journalism Program at University of Guadalajara
Yumay Rincón Cuéllar, editor of the Costa Rican-based business Web site capitales.com, is the recipient of a scholarship given by the International Center for Journalists in honor of NBC News broadcaster Tom Brokaw. The Brokaw Scholarship provides Rincón with tuition for a training program at the Digital Journalism Center in Guadalajara, Mexico.
ICFJ announced the scholarship at the 2007 ICFJ annual Awards Dinner when Tom Brokaw received ICFJ's Founders Award for Excellence in Journalism. View Brokaw's acceptance speech here. The scholarship covers costs for a course on digital media management that combines six weeks of online training with a week of in-person sessions at the Center. The Center is a joint project of the University of Guadalajara and ICFJ.
Rincón supervises a team of five journalists at capitales.com who cover business in Costa Rica and the rest of Central America. The site has 10,000 registered subscribers. Rincón has a bachelor´s degree in marketing communication from the Universidad Latina de Costa Rica, where she now teaches a course in digital journalism.
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Program Dates:
October 12- December 2008
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 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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