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.png) Ten Practical Tips for Environmental Reporting is the second in a series of instructional guides on specialized reporting techniques published by ICFJ.
The tips are aimed mainly toward reporters. Those new to the environmental
beat can use the booklet as a guidebook, while veterans may use it to rethink ways of building sources or following up on daily stories. Editors, the “gatekeepers” for what appears in print and broadcast, also can benefit from the tips by learning how to make environmental news clearer and more germane to the public.
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Arabic
English
Portuguese
Vietnamese
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.png) Since crises often render severe mental and emotional stresses, Journalism and Trauma, An Interactive Guide offers suggestions to help journalists work with grieving victims and survivors in an ethical and sensitive manner. This guide also defines traumatic stress and offers tips to media professionals for their own self-care.
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English
Spanish
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 ICFJ launched a timely manual on disaster and crisis coverage as Haitians are recovering from a 7.0 earthquake. The manual also comes with a complimentary interactive guide on covering trauma. This guide provides practical guidelines for delivering news in a professional manner while maintaining personal safety. The manual also provides links to other online resources that are available to journalists on the issue. The guide builds on the success of a 2008 training program on crisis reporting for U.S Hispanic and Latin American journalists sponsored by the McCormick Foundation.
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English
Spanish
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 Covering immigration is not easy. It often requires an understanding of public policy and immigration law, an appreciation of U.S. history and our social dynamics, and an ability to convey in a compelling, even-handed way the everyday stories of immigrants. It is important not to stereotype, sensationalize or oversimplify the issues and the lives of the people you interview. While writing about illegal immigrants, for example, it is important to earn their trust and also make sure they understand your role as a journalist and not as an advocate. This manual will help you cover immigration in a fair and meaningful way.
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English
Spanish
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 This social reporting manual for Iranian journalists discusses issues such as covering the social beat, avoiding stereotypes and using social statistics in stories. The author of the manual is award-winning Iranian journalist and cartoonist Nikahang Kowsar. The manual is used as the key reference work for ICFJ's recent online courses in social reporting. To see this manual in Arabic, Azeri, English or Russian, click here.
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Persian
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 If you are new to media training, perhaps you have some reservations or fears about training journalists or media managers. Or you may think training colleagues is easy because you have been teaching or practicing journalism for years. Still, this manual incorporates a variety of different training methods that are specific to training adult journalists. If you master the points in this manual, you will find it difficult to fail as a media trainer.
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Arabic
English
Kazakh
Kyrgyz
Russian
Tajik
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 Ordinary people --laborers and shopkeepers, nurses and students -- often have only one way to get their names in the papers: Commit a crime or be the victim of one. But their day-to-day lives are the lives of our readers, listeners and viewers, too. This manual helps journalists frame stories around social issues such as health and education, as well as issues concerning women and children.
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Arabic
Azeri
English
Russian
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 The key to any democracy is the ability to have fair elections. It's especially hard for journalists in emerging democracies to cover the election process when they have never experienced it before.
This manual emphasizes "citizen-based" election coverage. It focuses on issues, concerns and explores solutions rather than dictates who is in the lead.
Although this manual is aimed at journalists in emerging democracies, journalists living anywhere can strive to reach these models of coverage.
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English
Russian
Sinhala
Spanish
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 Iran is complex by anyone’s standards. Even journalists who have spent decades reporting on it struggle to understand it fully. Yet many Westerners think they know a lot about Iran because it shows up in the headlines so often.
ICFJ perceived a need to take a closer look at the Iran buzzwords and find new openings for fresh approaches to reporting about Iran. You will find here an opportunity to gain insight from a unique group of experts who have made it their life’s work to understand Iran.
This report is the result of our April 2008 conference “Iran 360: Exploring Politics, Economics and Society in a Global Hot Spot,” supported by the United States Institute of Peace.
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 The problem for many reporters is that they’re not experts in personal finance –even though they probably have had to address personal finance issues such as balancing their checkbook, determining how to save money for retirement or buying a home.
The goal of this online tutorial is to give you a basic overview of personal finance so that you’ll feel more comfortable writing about money.
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English
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 After he began his Knight International Journalism Fellowship with ARY One World, a private, Urdu-language television channel in Pakistan, Adnan Adil Zaidi realized the need for an Urdu TV production training manual. “There was no book or training manual available in Urdu. Even books on media training in the English language are not available,” Zaidi says. The challenge was to develop a document that addressed the basic training needs of television journalists in Pakistan. Zaidi developed the guide using notes he had taken during his 18-year journalism career. The result: a 108-page manual that covers news theory, television reporting and anchoring.
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Urdu
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 Merrill Lynch, in conjunction with Tsinghua University, has published a Glossary of Financial Terms and Acronyms, a valuable new tool for business journalists and students covering the global economy.
English financial terms are often translated into a confusing array of phrases in Chinese. This glossary will enable Chinese and American business executives and reporters to use the same language.
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Chinese
English
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 We all have stories to tell. But the Internet lets us tell our stories to the world.
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Arabic
English
Persian
Portuguese
Spanish
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 This free manual was birthed out of a three-day conference, entitled, "Bina'a A'-Jusour - Bridging the Gap: Misunderstandings and Misinformation in the Arab and U.S. Media." Held at the Wingspread conference facility, and sponsored by the Carnegie Foundation, this meeting invited Arab and American journalists to discuss the wide and dangerous gap that exists between the United States and Arab countries along with addressing the role that journalism has played in maintaining and widening the gap.
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Arabic
English
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 Alison Bethel, the Knight International Journalism Fellow in Ghana, has published “Free & Fair: A Journalist’s Guide to Improved Election Reporting in Ghana.” The guide is designed to give journalists in emerging democracies a deeper understanding of media’s role in elections and the need for impartial coverage.
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English
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Knight Fellow Paul Radu created a new digital handbook designed to help investigative journalists track corruption across borders. The handbook provides an array of new tools for investigative journalists that will help them give the public a better understanding of regional and global criminal networks. The manual includes new techniques in cross-border investigative journalism and lists of Web sites and databases with information about commercial enterprises worldwide.
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English
Russian
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