Investigative

Knight Fellows Taking pictures of White House at orientation

"The Fellas" outside the white Houe taking snaps for the blogs.

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Hena and Edem

Hena and Edem Djiokoto "framing"

Hena and Edem taking a picture

Hena and Edem Djiokoto "framing".

Fellows taking picture of white house at orientation

"The Fellas" outside the white Houe taking snaps for the blogs.

Jun 142010

Tears and Laughs at the Knight Fellows Orientation

Kathie Klarreich shed tears during a session on Journalistic Ethics during the Knight Fellowship orientation in the American capital Washington.

She remembered how some video journalists handled the victims of Haiti’s Earthquake transmitting their suffering live on TV while they could’ve helped evacuating those under debris.

I asked Kathie who’s heading to Haiti later this year to help revive the country’s devastated media why she cried: "Life and Humanity always come first" she said:

But the orientation was not all about tears.

Jun 132010

Capital-ism

The difference in Port-au-Prince and Washington DC is just a microcosm of what can, and needs, to be done in Haiti's post earthquake reconstruction. There is no comparison, really, between navigating Haiti's capital, Port-au-Prince, and the orderly, manicured streets of DC.

Jun 102010

Mi Panamá Transparente has a new partner in the Panamanian television

In early June 2010, the national television network TVN Channel 2 signed a memorandum of understanding with the International Center for Journalists (ICFJ) and the Journalists' Forum for Freedoms of Expression and Information of Panama to produce investigative journalism and promote the use of Mi Panamá Transparente's Web site among the people of this country.

Jun 32010

A new Internet tool to track crime and corruption is now available in Panama

Mi Panamá Transparente, an Internet site based on Ushahidi technology to track crime and corruption is now available for Panamanian citizens.

The Web site was developed as part of a Knight International Journalism Fellowships project in collaboration with the Fórum de Periodistas para las Libertades de Expresión e Información. The Fellowships program is administered by the [International Center for Journalists](http://icfj.atendesigngr

Jun 32010

Mi Panamá Transparente ya cobró vida

Mi Panamá Transparente, un sitio en Internet basado en la tecnología de Ushahidi para registrar hechos de criminalidad, violencia y corrupción, está disponible ya para los ciudadanos de Panamá.

El sitio fue creado por el Centro Internacional para Periodistas y por el Fórum de Periodistas para las Libertades de Expresión e Información, como parte de un proyecto para impulsar el periodismo de investigación en Panamá y producir, con ayuda de los ciudadan