Basic Journalism

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Among those working on strategy, which includes focusing first on monitoring waste management concerns in the capital city, is Rayza Reyes Marciales, who is building a journalism website.

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A look at the digital map in progress.

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Colombia’s first Hacks/Hackers group met August 11 in Bogota.

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Elkin Garavito (left) is manager of the Hacks/Hackers project, whose participants include journalists, cartographers, designers, developers, Web entrepreneurs and environmentalists. (Photo by Ronnie Lovler)

Aug 162012

Bogota Hacks/Hackers to Launch Crowdsourced Map on Environmental Problems

“Mi Bogotá Verde,” or My Green Bogota, a new, crowdsourced digital map that will track solid waste disposal – the first of many urban environmental concerns – is just weeks away from going online in Bogota.

The map was developed during the first hackathon of the Bogota chapter of Hacks/Hackers, created just four months ago.

Aug 152012

Vote Now for ICFJ Experts on Media Innovation to Speak at SXSW

If selected for the 2013 South by Southwest® (SXSW®) Conference in Austin, our panel will highlight the tremendous potential for news innovation in the developing world.

Aug 102012

Ghana Journalist Trained by Knight Fellows Wins Top CNN Award

A reporter for the ground-breaking “Hotline” radio show, launched in Ghana with the help of two Knight Fellows, has won the top prize for radio journalism in Africa.

Aug 102012

Investigative Journalists, Data Sleuths and Web Designers Explore Free Graphic Tools in Argentina

Fifty journalists, computer programmers and web designers came together for a workshop on Google Fusion Tables on Friday, July 20, at Google Argentina’s headquarters in Buenos Aires.

The gathering of professionals from different disciplines was not accidental. Bringing these two groups together is the key to maximizing the use of digital tools and applications to uncover important stories in the public interest.

Aug 92012

Multimedia “Boot Camp” Empowers Arab Journalists to Serve Their Societies

Twenty-three years of authoritarian government and no freedom of expression left Tunisian citizen journalist, Safaa Daouas, worried and concerned about participating in ICFJ’s multimedia “boot camp” in Jordan.

“I was afraid and not sure what to expect from that training, because such training was out of reach for my people before the revolution,” she said.

As part of the boot camp, Daouas proposed to investigate the issue of electoral corruption in post-revolution Tunisia.

Aug 92012

ICFJ Trainee Releases Lebanese Detainees From the Prison of Silence

A Lebanese participant's multimedia website that documents torture of detainees won the top prize in a competition among ICFJ participants. The site began with a course on ICFJ Anywhere.