Business

Feb 62012

UNESCO Highlights ICFJ's Media Sustainability Work in Liberia

Knight International Journalism Fellow Luisa Handem Piette, working with UNESCO, her partner in Liberia, held a workshop to help media managers turn their news organizations into thriving, sustainable businesses.

Program: 
Liberia: Create Commercially Viable Radio Stations Using New Marketing Strategies
Dec 62011

$1 Million Fund Seeds New Media Innovations in Africa

by Justin Arenstein

I’ve crisscrossed the African continent over the past five months, clocking more than 27,000 miles as I’ve helped newsrooms come to grips with the new digital era. And wherever I go, I meet two to three journalists per day who think they have a solution to the malaise that paralyzes much of the continent’s traditional media.

Nov 222011

Reporters Win Awards for Raising Financial Literacy in Minority Communities

by Irene Moskowitz, Communications Officer

Three journalists have won awards for in-depth stories that have improved the financial literacy of minorities across the United States. The award winners were among 42 reporters who participated in a 12-week program administered by ICFJ and funded by The McGraw-Hill Companies on personal finance reporting.

Heather Scofield, staff writer at The Durango Herald, won first place for her front-page articles on immigrants slipping through cracks in the country’s health system.

Program: 
McGraw-Hill Personal Finance Reporting Online Courses

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A still from Yezmin Thomas's multimedia story on migrant workers in Fort Worth, Texas.

Oct 52011

Bring It On: Tackling The Challenge of Sustainable Development Journalism in Africa

by Joseph Warungu

As Knight International Journalism Fellow Joseph Warungu launches a new network of journalists to report on development in Africa, the graveyard of those who’ve fought the same battle before him offers both warnings and lessons to be learned.

Sub-Saharan Africa: Develop New Business Models

In Partnership With: 
African Media Initiative

Knight International Journalism Fellow Meredith Beal is a media entrepreneur who is working with members of the African Media Initiative (AMI) to develop effective business models, improve management structures, and create new revenue streams to support quality news coverage. AMI is a pan-African organization of media owners and operators.

Beal is mentoring a half dozen African media organizations, helping them to monetize mobile and online news services and creating models that can be replicated by other organizations.

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Knight Fellow Meredith Beal is working with the African Media Initiative, the only group of media owners on the continent, to find new revenue streams.

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Trainer Xavier Serbia sits down with Jorge Gestoso to discuss the significance of personal finance knowledge within the Hispanic and ethnic communities. Serbia expresses not only how imperative it is for these communities to become educated on the subject, but also expresses how the need for training journalists to report these stories is even more important. He states how beneficial and innovative personal finance courses (in English and Spanish) conducted by the International Center for Journalists, in conjunction with McGraw-Hill, have been to these communities.

Serbian Media Managers Professional Development Program

In Partnership With: 
U.S. Department of State

ICFJ conducted a U.S.-based professional development program for six media managers from Serbia, sponsored by the U.S. Department of State through Support for East European Democracy (SEED) assistance to Serbia

The program is designed to explain the principles and practices of U.S. media industry that help the press retain its freedom and economic viability through observing how U.S.

Unilever Journalism Exchange Program for Journalists from Ghana

In Partnership With: 
Unilever USA

Samuel Kwaku Agyemang of Metropolitan Television (Metro TV) in Accra participated in the 2011 Unilever Journalism Exchange Program for journalists from Ghana. Agyemang was named the Best Journalist of the Year in Ghana in 2009.