ICFJ Programs in Multimedia

  • The Philippines: Tracking Government Efforts to Reduce Poverty

    In Partnership With: 
    The Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism

    In the Philippines, Knight International helped journalists investigate the effectiveness of government programs designed to reduce poverty. With officials up for reelection in 2010, Knight Fellow Alex Tizon worked with The Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism (PCIJ) to determine whether the government delivered on promises to improve conditions. Tizon introduced new digital techniques that will enable major media outlets to gather better information from the poorest provinces.

  • Central America: A Model of Interactive News

    In Partnership With: 
    ElFaro.net

    In El Salvador, Knight International helped the premier news Web site elfaro.net enhance its interactive coverage and generate new revenue streams.

  • South Africa: Give Health News a Higher Profile

    In Partnership With: 
    Mail & Guardian
    In Partnership With: 
    Soweto TV

    Mia Malan launched the first weekly health program at Soweto TV, the largest community TV station in Africa, with more than 1 million viewers. She trained a team to produce high-quality feature reports for the show with a special focus on HIV/AIDS. The half-hour show features topics such as the use and abuse of antiretroviral drugs, male circumcision, attention-deficit disorder and organ transplants.

    In addition to the new half-hour weekly show, health stories on Soweto TV’s daily news reports have increased threefold as a result of Malan’s efforts.

  • Investigative Journalism and Citizen Journalism For Russia

    The International Center for Journalists (ICFJ) will present a training program for working professional journalists as well as “citizen journalists” or bloggers in Russia. Working in three cities in diverse regions of Russia – Moscow, Yekaterinburg and Vladivostok – ICFJ will undertake this work in cooperation with its Russian partner, the Glasnost Defense Foundation (GDF) of Moscow.

  • Bolivia: Use the Web to Strengthen Community Radio

    In Partnership With: 
    Radio Fides Santa Cruz

    Knight International created an Internet platform for community radio stations in Bolivia to share programming with one another--and ultimately with major news outlets in the capital.

  • Faith in Media: Improving Coverage of Islam and Other Religions

    Participants Jamila Trindle and Andreas Harsono along with Jakartan cameraman Lexy Rambadetta, interview an Ahmadiyah farmer who now lives in a refugee camp because his house was burned to the ground during a Feb. 4, 2006 attack.
    (Credit: Basyiruddin Aziz)

    The International Center for Journalists (ICFJ) organized an exciting program that paired U.S. and Muslim-World journalists for joint reporting projects on issues of importance to audiences in both places.

  • Electronic Journalism and International Editing Standards

    In Partnership With: 
    Prince Ahmed bin Salman Media Institute

    Photo by Hoda Osman

    Participants also learned how to write and adapt stories for news Web sites examined and compared news Web sites from Arabic-speaking countries and from countries around the world. Photo by Hoda Osman

    In cooperation with the Prince Ahmed bin Salman Applied Media Institute, ICFJ conducted its first training courses in Saudi Arabia entitled Electronic Journalism and International Editing Standards.

  • Mexico: Defend Free Expression

    In Partnership With: 
    Fundación para la Libertad de Expresión

    Knight International helped launch a foundation to protect journalists and promote freedom of the press in a country where reporters are increasingly in danger. Knight Fellow Benjamín Fernández educated journalists on how to take advantage of freedom of information laws and counseled them on their own legal rights. Fernandez also created a group of media lawyers willing to defend journalists under threat.

  • Latin America: Regional Digital Journalism Center Takes Root in Mexico

    In Partnership With: 
    University of Guadalajara

    Since James Breiner launched the Digital Journalism Center at the University of Guadalajara in 2008, the center has grown into a robust institution. It is helping to increase the digital know-how of journalists and media managers across Latin America.

    Breiner has crafted a Spanish-language curriculum for courses he has taught on the challenges and opportunities of digital journalism, entrepreneurial journalism, public-service journalism, journalism safety, covering sustainable development and writing for the web.

  • Investigative Journalism: A Training Program for Egyptian Journalists

    In Partnership With: 
    Arab Reporters for Investigative Journalism

    The Investigative Journalism project trained 40 Egyptian journalists in investigative reporting skills through a unique hands-on/online mentoring program that pairs Egypt’s top journalists with younger Egyptian journalists. The focus was to train journalists how to produce and disseminate investigative reports through computer- assisted reporting, and by linking to one another through a “virtual newsroom” online platform.

  • Kenya: Promote Better Health Coverage, Better Policies

    In Partnership With: 
    The Nation Media Group

    The Kenya Alliance of Health and Science Reporters (KAHSR), a journalism association Rachel Jones launched in November, now offers regular training workshops and resources on topics such as new vaccines, children’s health and agricultural research. The association is supported by a grant from the London-based Wellcome Trust. At Alliance workshops, journalists can interact with the country’s leading medical researchers and scientists.

  • Arabic: Building News Web Sites

    ICFJ’s first online course covered the development and strategy behind creating quality news Web sites for Arabic-speaking journalists.

  • Online Video for Citizen Journalists in Malaysia

    The Online Video for Citizen Journalists in Malaysia program is a three month-intensive training for citizen journalists. Throughout the course, journalists produced and disseminated online news videos about Malaysia’s several religious and ethnic communities through the prism of human rights, religious and ethnic tolerance issues.

  • Liberia: Bolstering Coverage of the Courts in Post-Conflict Era

    In Partnership With: 
    AllAfrica

    Marquita Smith is a Knight International Journalism Fellow who helped launch the Judicial Reporters Network in Liberia. Smith formed this association and trained its members to cover the country’s fledgling legal system. Inspired by Smith, Ora Garway, a journalist in the association, launched a newspaper called The Punch that focuses on legal reporting. Garway was the country’s first woman managing editor. Smith returned to Liberia in June 2010 to help Garway develop a business plan for the new newspaper and create a website featuring coverage of the justice system.

  • Azerbaijan: Cultivating Multimedia Journalists in Provinces

    In Partnership With: 
    Zerkalo
    In Partnership With: 
    Moi Rayon
    In Partnership With: 
    Day.az

    In Azerbaijan, Knight International developed a corps of multimedia journalists in the provinces who now provide news stories to independent media in the capital. Knight Fellow Eric Schwartz improved the digital skills of these journalists and helped them expand coverage of local issues in leading news outlets.

  • East Timor: Delivering Radio and Television News to Isolated Communities

    In Partnership With: 
    Timor-Leste Media Development Institute

    In East Timor, Knight International helped radio journalists provide for the first time an independent, national weekly newscast to listeners in all 13 districts of the country. Knight Fellow Maria-Gabriela Carrascalão Heard, East Timor’s first woman journalist, trained news teams in each district to produce weekly segments. She created the first university-level journalism program in the capital as well as the first student radio station.

  • Guatemala: Pioneering a Digital Radio Network

    In Partnership With: 
    Noticias de mi Gente

    Knight International helped radio stations serving indigenous rural communities in Guatemala to build NoticiasdemiGente.com, a Web site for sharing content. Led by Knight Fellow Maria Martin, rural radio reporters now can upload stories and disseminate them across the country.

    HIGHLIGHTS

    • Raised the quality of local news reports produced by rural journalists.
    • Linked the radio stations via a digital platform, expanding the menu of programs reaching rural communities.

  • Syria: New Online Network for Young Journalists

    In Partnership With: 
    United Nations Development Programme

    In the Middle East, bloggers and digital journalists are covering stories and sparking debates on topics avoided by mainstream media. Knight International created an online networking site in Syria that enables young reporters to share resources, experiences. Called Tawasul – Arabic for "connecting" – the network features multimedia stories, including photography, cartoons and animation, on social issues. Their stories focus on social issues such as maternal and child health, gender equality and religious tolerance.

  • Covering Immigration: Establishing Links Between U.S. and Latin American Media

    This training program on coverage of immigration brought together journalists from U.S. community-based Spanish- and English-language media and Latin American media for a hands-on training workshop on covering immigration issues, followed by several days of reporting on the issue under the guidance of experienced trainers. It took place in Washington, D.C., April 16-24.

  • Egypt: Journalism Training (2007)

    In Partnership With: 
    American University in Cairo

    Knight International Journalism Fellow Craig Duff completed nine months in Egypt in 2007, partnering with the Adham Center for Electronic Journalism.

  • Nigeria: Giving Citizens in the Niger Delta a Voice on Health Issues

    In Partnership With: 
    U.S. Embassy in Nigeria
    In Partnership With: 
    Daily Trust

    Babatunde Akpeji is a Knight International Journalism Fellow who is building a network of citizen journalists to cover health in Nigeria’s Delta region, an area rich in resources but wracked by severe poverty.

  • Social Justice Reporting for a Global America: International Reporting Fellowship Program for U.S.-based Journalists

    About the Program

    Plagued by the twin challenges of a slow economy and digital disruption, many U.S. news organizations are cutting back on foreign coverage and are shrinking their editorial staffs.

    But journalists can play an essential role in raising awareness around international social justice issues, including women’s rights, corruption, human trafficking, poverty, religious tolerance, environmental issues, migration and education.

    It is with this in mind that ICFJ announces the Social Justice Reporting for a Global America Program, sponsored by the Ford Foundation.

  • Training the Next Generation of Tunisian Media Professionals

    In Partnership With: 
    The Institute of Press and Information Sciences (IPSI)

    In partnership with The Institute of Press and Information Sciences (IPSI) at the University of Manouba in Manouba, Tunisia, ICFJ organized an internship program for a group of eight Tunisian master’s degree journalism students. The internship program’s goal was to educate Tunisian journalism students on U.S. journalistic practices and ethics. ICFJ placed students in newsrooms for a 17 day internship in September 2012. Students observed U.S. newsrooms at work and learned new skills to enhance their journalism careers.

  • 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.