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Journalism Ethics: The Global Debate – Free Download

All over the world, journalists are facing threats to the professional standards of journalism. This manual encourages journalists and media managers to think about ethics in their profession and develop guidelines to meet their circumstances.

Dec 92011

Journalists from Chattanooga and Chicago Honored for International Reporting

by Irene Moskowitz, Communications Officer

Two reporters have won awards, named for Washington Post columnist David Ignatius, for outstanding coverage of global stories with important local angles.

Program: 
Bringing Home the World: International Reporting Fellowship Program for Minority Journalists
Nov 102011

Occupy D.C. Protesters Hold Mock Committee Hearing

by Maha Mussadaq

Mussadaq is currently a guest reporter at the McClatchy Washington Bureau as part of the U.S. - Pakistan Professional Partnership in Journalism. This story appeared on McClatchy's website.

WASHINGTON — Sitting under the open air on a sunny Wednesday afternoon, Occupy D.C. protesters held a mock hearing on how to create a fair economy for most Americans — a contrast, protesters said, to Capitol Hill hearings that they said work to enrich the nation’s top 1 percent of earners.

Program: 
U.S.- Pakistan Professional Partnership in Journalism
Nov 22011

ICFJ now accepting applications for 2012 International Reporting Fellowship Program

For a second year, the International Center for Journalists (ICFJ) will offer the “Bringing Home the World: International Reporting Fellowship Program for Minority Journalists.”

Through this fellowship, journalists of color gain foreign reporting experience and an opportunity to cover important international issues that resonate with their communities.

Applicants must present a project proposal in their application, detailing the reporting project they would be interested in pursuing.

The deadline for submitting applications is Monday January 16, 2012.

Program: 
Bringing Home the World: International Reporting Fellowship Program for Minority Journalists

Personnel and Profits – Free Download

This is a basic guide for creating and operating a successful newspaper business. This booklet is intended to be useful for newspaper entrepreneurs in developing countries, and in countries with newly emergent press freedoms or market economies. Most newspapers begin with an idea, a mission or an inspiration. Few newspapers are started in developing societies primarily as a vehicle to make money for their owners. Because most newspaper entrepreneurs get started for non-business reasons, they need a basic guide to the business of running a newspaper.

Successful Newspaper Advertising – Free Download

No newspaper can survive, even in the strongest market, without a skilled sales staff that understands the business of selling in general, and the ins and outs of selling newspaper space in particular. In an odd way, good newspaper salesmen are like good reporters. As they race from one story to the next, journalists come to know a little bit about a great many things. A newspaper salesman should quickly learn a little bit about the business of every client, from the shoemaker to the Mercedes dealer.

Bringing Home the World: International Reporting Fellowship Program for Minority Journalists

Over the years, journalists of color have had few opportunities to work as foreign correspondents. That’s especially the case in today’s media environment, with sharp cutbacks by many news outlets in their international coverage. At the same time, communities of color rarely receive coverage of global issues that directly affect their lives, from the migration of jobs overseas to wars fought by minorities serving in the U.S. military.

Nigeria: Create New Health Section at Daily Trust newspaper

In Partnership With: 
The Daily Trust
In Partnership With: 
Freedom Radio Kano

As a Knight International Journalism Fellow, Sunday Dare has helped the Daily Trust, the most widely read newspaper in northern Nigeria, launch an eight-page weekly health section. He is working with a team of dedicated health reporters there to improve coverage of health news, and his trainees are producing investigative pieces that have led to better policies.

Four days after the Daily Trust broke news of an outbreak of the deadly lassa fever, the government announced it had distributed treatment vaccines as well as safety gloves and vests.

Pakistan: Upgrading the Quality of Broadcast News (2009)

In Partnership With: 
ARY News

In a country where independent television is proliferating, Knight International worked with broadcast journalists at a leading network to make their reports more timely and compelling. By adding more stories from the field and reducing reliance on single sources, Fellow Adnan Adil Zaidi revitalized the newsroom at ARY OneWorld, now renamed ARY News.

India: Enhance a Cutting-Edge, Multimedia Academy and Help Make it Sustainable

In Partnership With: 
Greycells Education

Siddhartha Dubey is a Knight International Journalism Fellow who is leading an innovative multimedia academy in India. Launched by ICFJ and Greycells Education, the World Media Academy Delhi equips students with the practical, digital skills and international standards they need to succeed in India’s emerging, multimedia news environment. WMA Delhi’s curriculum focuses on video and broadcast.