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Faith in Media: Improving Coverage of Islam and Other Religions
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Participants Jamila Trindle and Andreas Harsono along with a Jakarta cameraman Lexy Rambadetta, interview an Ahmadiyah farmer who now lives in a refugee camp because his house was burned to the ground during a Feb. 4, 2006 attack. (Credit: Basyiruddin Aziz)
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The International Center for Journalists (ICFJ) organized an exciting program in December 2008 that paired U.S. and Muslim-World journalists for joint reporting projects on issues of importance to audiences in both places.
With support from Carnegie Corporation of New York, ICFJ held a conference in Istanbul, Turkey, called “Faith in Media: Improving Coverage of Islam and Other Religions.” Four pairs of journalists then embarked on joint reporting projects in Muslim countries and in the United States.
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.png) Jamila Trindle along with her partner Andreas Harsono covered religious persecution in Indonesia.Watch her talk about her experience of reporting overseas.
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 On the five year anniversary of a controversial new family law code, Berber activists say that they have fewer rights and freedoms than they did before Moroccan independence, calling the 2004 code a step backward not forward.
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ICFJ program participant Jamila Trindle reports from Indonesia, where fundamentalists are posing new challenges to the democratically-elected government and to members of minority religious groups.
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 American journalist Kelly McEvers (pictured, left) and Saudi journalist Asma Alsharif (pictured, right) teamed up to report on how Saudi-funded schools in both countries are adjusting curricula accused of inciting violence during and after 9-11. They worked on an ICFJ program aimed at building journalistic bridges between the United States and predominantly Muslim countries. Three other teams are also working on joint-reporting projects, all funded by Carnegie Corporation of New York.
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 The International Center for Journalists (ICFJ) is offering an online course entitled, "International Coverage of Religion". The course trains journalists how to cover religion and is taught in English by award-winning journalist, David Briggs.
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(2).JPG) “I'm having a blast,” said American journalist Christopher Quinn. “What a great opportunity to have interaction with fellow reporters from around the world. To be able to hear, almost instantaneously, from others about perceptions and shared problems in reporting about religion has 24 karat value.” |
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