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Training Resources at ICFJ
The International Center for Journalists is pleased to offer training materials for professional journalists on a variety of topics in 14 languages.
To place an order, please contact Dawn Arteaga, Communications Director at darteaga@icfj.org or call 202.737.3700.
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Online Materials
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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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 This interactive training module is a basic introduction to the new online world of Web logs or "blogs."
We all have news and stories to tell. But the Internet lets us tell our stories to the world. If you want to tell something important to others, this guide will help you. It's a basic outline that will help you build the machinery that runs your blog: your words and images. Other guides are technological. This guide tells you how to gather information and how to tell it –and tell it accurately.
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ICFJ’s first online course covered the development and strategy behind creating quality news Web sites for Arabic-speaking journalists. The course gave journalists practical skills on how to think and write for the Web, tell a story online, use audio, photos and video on a Web site, effectively use and create blogs and design practical, credible and attractive Web sites.
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ICFJ is working with Knight International Journalism Fellow James Breiner and the University of Guadalajara to launch Latin America’s first digital journalism center for media professionals and citizen journalists across the hemisphere.
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ICFJ administered a five-week online course that explored crisis reporting in its broadest sense. The course took place from April 15 to May 20 and explored various topics including natural disasters, humanitarian crisis and health crises.
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This self-directed module is the first of four courses in Persian on business and economic reporting. A self-study course, participants engage in interactive learning activities at their own convenience
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Printed Materials
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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.
This manual is published in English and Arabic and you can dowload a PDF copy by clicking on the links below. To obtain a hard copy please contact our Publications office at: darteaga@icfj.org.
(Please note: The manual is free but we ask that you pay for shipping. Costs will vary depending on location)
English PDF - download here.
Arabic PDF - download here.
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Training Manuals:
 Business and Economic Reporting: Covering Companies, Financial Markets and the Broader Economy
This handbook covers the basics of reporting the business and economic story, the importance of understanding global economics, and resources available on the Internet for doing this. A detailed glossary of common financial terms is also included. (2005, 56 pgs)
English – Item No. 1095- $10.00
Arabic – Item No. 1595- $10.00
Russian – Item No. 1596 - $10.00
The Business of News: Running Successful Newspapers in Emerging Free Markets
This three-volume set is a comprehensive tutorial on running profitable and professional newspapers in emerging democracies. Newspaper executives will benefit fr om the expertise of three veteran U.S. journalists with substantial experience in the developing world. (2002, three-volume set)
Successful Newspaper Advertising: Building Financial Independence Through Ad Revenue
In this 28-page manual, Chris Braithwaite describes the pivotal role commercial advertising plays in underwriting a free press. Braithwaite, publisher of a U.S. community weekly for 25 years, demonstrates how advertising can provide true independence -- financial independence -- from economic and political forces that often vie to control the media.
 Personnel and Profits: A Guide to Successful Newspaper Management
A 48-page primer for newspaper entrepreneurs in developing countries on how to run the business side of a newspaper, from accounting to distribution and circulation, to managing the newsroom and editorial staff. Lewis Wolman, publisher of the Samoa News for 17 years, walks readers through the complex process of publishing a newspaper on tight deadlines and in a cost-effective manner. It is designed to help newspaper executives strike a balance between developing a compelling editorial product and mastering the details of producing and distributing a newspaper—in short running a sound business that produces a high quality product.
 Know Your Audience: Increasing Readership and Advertising Through Market Research
This 32-page manual offers a roadmap for staying on top of the market by staying on top of the needs and desires of newspaper readers and advertisers. Former newspaper publisher Carrol Dadisman walks through the steps a media manager should take to gather quantitative and qualitative data—data that gives media managers an edge in a rapidly changing market. The manual includes sample questionnaires, tips for conducting focus groups and cost-saving alternatives to hiring market research consultants.
Three Volume Set:
English – Item No. 1060- $25.00
Russian – Item No. 6060- $25.00
Purchase Individually:
Advertising
English – Item No. 1061- $10.00
Russian – Item No. 6061- $10.00
Personnel and Profits
English – Item No. 1062- $10.00
Russian – Item No. 6062 - $10.00
Know Your Audience
English – Item No. 1063- $10.00
Russian – Item No. 6063 - $10.00
 Dig Deep & Aim High: A Training Model for Teaching Investigative Reporting
A step-by-step guide for trainers teaching investigative reporting in developing democracies. Included are: course curriculum, case studies, class exercises for document research and interviewing techniques, and hand-outs. A manual that seeks to inspire while providing practical guidelines.
English – Item No. 1030 - $10.00
Free & Fair: A Journalist's Guide to Improved Election Reporting in Emerging Democracies.
In Free & Fair, ICFJ offers journalists guidelines for serving the public, by providing accurate, balanced and thorough election coverage. Free & Fair points out common abuses of the election process; offers a sample checklist of elements that make up a free and fair election, covering issues related to the candidates, the voters, and the actual voting process; provides suggestions for establishing and protecting credibility, for individual journalists and news organizations as a whole; encourages election coverage that focuses on issues, facts and citizens’ priorities and concerns instead of campaign strategies and who’s leading the race; offers suggestions for increasing cooperation among competing news organizations, a glossary of voting terminology, and list of additional election reporting resources. (2001, 20 pages)
English – Item No. 1020 - $10.00
Arabic – Item No. 1520 - $10.00
Spanish – Item No. 2020 - $10.00
French – Item No. 7020 - $10.00
 Journalism Ethics: The Global Debate
This manual offers journalists a framework for making difficult ethical decisions, especially on deadline. It includes 21 real-life case studies faced by journalists from throughout Latin America, Africa, Eastern Europe and Asia. The case studies discuss such dilemmas as conflicts of interest, using hidden cameras, anonymous sources, invasion of privacy, etc. It also includes practical tips, a sample code of ethics and suggestions for additional resources. (2003, 56 pgs)
English – Item No. 1025 - $10.00
 Journalism Tip Sheets in English and Arabic
This handbook contains 19 tip sheets with useful information on topics ranging from lead writing to covering speeches to interviewing skills. It was developed as part of the West Bank Project at the University of Colorado School of Journalism and Mass Communication. (2005, 33 pages)
English and Arabic ** out of stock. Only available via PDF document.
 Making News Personal: Covering Human Rights, Education, Health and Other Social Issues
People are the focus of and audience for social-issues reporting, the topic of this tip-filled training manual. Author David Tuller advises an approach that ensures social-issues reporters get as close to their subject as possible. The manual comes partially from two programs designed for Azeri and Georgian journalists' reporting about a social issue that ravages women and children around the world: trafficking. It is also designed to show how the skills needed to report on trafficking can be applied to other social issues -- from diversity to religion, education to the elderly, human rights to health care. (2004, 52 pags)
English – Item No. 1080 - $10.00
Azeri – Item No. 2280 - $10.00
Georgian – Item No. 2380 - $10.00
Ten Steps to Investigative Reporting
 A companion to the trainers’ manual Dig Deep & Aim High. Ten Steps to Investigative Reporting is a handbook for aspiring investigative reporters. With valuable guidelines for building sources, identifying story ideas, interviewing for in-depth reports and the necessity of confirmation and verification. (2000, 20 pages)
English – Item No. 1031 - $10.00
Arabic – ** out of stock **
French – Item No. 2031 - $10.00
Spanish – Item No. 7031 - $10.00
Russian – Item No. 6031 - $10.00
 Media Training: A Manual for Conducting Journalism And Media Management Training Programs Around the World
A simple, step-by-step guide for media trainers by former ICFJ president and co-founder George Krimsky with contributions from other professional media trainers. (30 pages)
English – Item No. 1092 - $10.00
Arabic – Item No. 1592 - $10.00
 Ten Practical Tips for Business and Economic Reporting in Developing Economies
A handbook on covering the financial world for working journalists. The book draws on actual examples from business reporting in the developing world. Includes tips for clearer writing, more interesting coverage, improving accuracy and gathering information. Includes a glossary of common technical terms in business reporting. (1996, 70 pages)
English – **out of stock**
Arabic – Item No. 1590 - $10.00
French – Item No. 2090 - $10.00
Portuguese – Item No. 4090 - $10.00
Russian – Item No. 6090 - $10.00
Spanish – Item No. 7090 - $10.00
Serbian – Item No. 9090 - $10.00
Ten Practical Tips for Environmental Reporting
 A handbook on covering environmental issues for working journalists. Uses examples of environmental reporting in the developing world and is intended to be a guide for reporters new to the environmental beat and a refresher for veterans. Includes tips on reporting science, presenting information clearly and concisely, making stories relevant to readers and viewers, developing and maintaining sources, and looking for hidden interests. (1995, 52 pages)
English – Item No. 1091 - $10.00
Arabic – Item No. 1591 - $10.00
Nepalese – Item No. 2091 - $10.00
Polish – Item No. 2591 - $10.00
Portuguese – Item No. 4091 - $10.00
Hungarian – Item No. 5091 - $10.00
Spanish – Item No. 7091 - $10.00
DVDs
Journalism Ethics: The New Debate
 This hour-long video and accompanying handbook explore ethical decision making in the media, using case studies drawn from news organizations and journalists throughout Latin America.
The handbook contains background material on the case studies examined in the video; additional case studies and exercises; key resources essential to in-depth discussion of ethical dilemmas; and a bibliography of printed and online resources on this topic.
DVD English – Item No. 1040 - $20.00
DVD Spanish – Item No. 7040 - $20.00
DVD Portuguese – Item No. 4040 - $20.00
Ethics Video Handbook (if purchased separately)
English – Item No. 1041 - $10.00
Spanish – Item No. 7041 - $10.00
Portuguese – Item No. 4041 - $10.00
Getting the Story: The Basics of Professional Journalism, Reporting, Writing, and Editing
* This DVD for this item is currently on backorder.
 A training film designed to provide an overview of the basic tools of the newspaper journalist. The 40-minute film demonstrates “how it’s done” from assignment through the actual editing of a news story that will appear in a newspaper. The video makes generous use of graphics and hands-on exercises. An accompanying workbook and facilitator’s guide reinforce the visual lessons of the film. (1990, 39:30 minutes)
DVD English – Item No. 1073 - $25.00
Facilitator's Guide-Getting the Story: The Basics of Professional Journalism, Reporting, Writing, and Editing. (1990, 34 pages) If purchased separately:
English – Item No. 1073 - $10.00
French – Item No. 2073 - $10.00
Workbook-Getting the Story: The Basics of Professional Journalism, Reporting, Writing, and Editing. (1990, 54 pages) If purchased separately:
English – Item No. 1074 - $10.00
French – Item No. 2074 - $10.00
Payment
All orders must be prepaid in U.S. dollars only. ICFJ accepts wire transfers, checks, money orders, and Visa, MasterCard, and American Express. The prices above do not include shipping and handling.
There is a $15.00 minimum for credit card purchases and a $100.00 minimum for wire transfers
To place an order, or for more information, contact Dawn Arteaga at darteaga (at) icfj (dot) org or call 1.202.737.3700
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