Multimedia

India: World Media Academy

Students at the World Media Academy learn both the basic skills of journalism and the technical multimedia skills they will need to do their jobs in the future.

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How does one television network with limited resources cover election issues in a country like Peru, spanning 500,000 square miles? With the help of Knight Fellow Hena Cuevas.

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

In Partnership With: 
Greycells Education

Chris Conte helped develop the curriculum and sustainability plan for an innovative multimedia academy in India. Launched by ICFJ and Greycells Education, the World Media Academy Delhi equips students with practical, digital skills and international standards needed to succeed in today's emerging, multimedia news environment.

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Knight Fellow Ayman Salah is connecting journalists in the Middle East with tech experts. Together they will find ways to deliver quality news using the latest digital know-how in a freer media environment.

Sep 222011

New Multimedia School Brings Global Perspective to India’s Dynamic News Environment

by Knight Staff

The World Media Academy – Delhi has launched its inaugural class with 18 students from around the world, each of them enrolled in a 10-month graduate journalism program in television, print and digital media. It is a joint venture between the International Center for Journalists and Greycells Ltd., a Mumbai-based education company.

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Radio is the most popular source of news in post-conflict Liberia, but stations are struggling. Knight Fellow Luisa Handem Piette is developing business models that will lead to profitability.

Middle East: Launch a Network to Connect Journalists with IT Experts

In Partnership With: 
Arab Reporters for Investigative Journalism
In Partnership With: 
Jordan Open Source Association

Knight International Journalism Fellow Ayman Salah is connecting journalists with IT experts across the Middle East by starting Hacks/Hackers chapters. Salah has launched the technology journalism group in three countries: Egypt, Jordan and Tunisia. Participants are working to find technological solutions to information bottlenecks.

In Amman, journalists and programmers developed the first mobile citizen journalism reporting app for major Jordanian news outlets.

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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.

Colombia: Use Crowd Sourcing Technology to Track Crime and Corruption

In Partnership With: 
El Tiempo
In Partnership With: 
Consejo de Redaccion

Knight International Journalism Fellow Ronnie Lovler is helping El Tiempo, Colombia’s largest newspaper, develop a website that uses citizen reports to map crime in the capital city of Bogota. Modeled after a similar Fellowship project in Panama, citizens and citizen journalists will post information on the map. Lovler will train El Tiempo journalists to use the map to identify trends and produce investigative stories about crime and violence. El Tiempo plans to expand the project nationally.

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Knight Fellow Ronnie Lovler helped journalists in Colombia to use crowd sourcing technology to cover 2011 elections and the issues that mattered most to citizens.