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The International Center for Journalists (ICFJ) is organizing a seminar in October entitled Covering Freedom of Expression: Resources for Journalists. It will take place in the Chancellor Hotel in Port of Spain, Trinidad. Journalists, publishers and international and local speakers are invited to participate. This seminar is being organized with the help of the Association of Caribbean Media Workers and will be held from October 16-18, 2005. It is designed exclusively for active journalists in Trinidad.

The goal of the workshop is to teach journalists how to improve coverage of violations of freedom of expression and how to expand their sources, using investigative reporting techniques. The sessions will be interactive, and will feature presentations by specialists from Latin America and the United States, debates with mediators and analysis of study cases.

The invited speakers are:

The distinguished journalist Eduardo Ulibarri, who until recently directed the Costa Rican newspaper La Nacion and has worked as a journalism professor at the Universidad Autónoma de Centroamérica as well as the International University of Florida. He is the author of numerous international publications and several books on journalism.

Bob Ortega, an independent journalist who was a Knight International Press Fellow in Paraguay in 1999. From 2000 to 2002, he was the Director of the Journalism School in Tblisi, Georgia, a program administered by ICFJ in Georgia. Ortega worked as a consultant for IREX in Belarus from 2003 to 2005. Previously, he was a correspondent for the Wall Street Journal and wrote several histories of Guatemala and Mexico.

Pedro Enrique Armendares is the former Executive Director of Investigative Reporters and Editors-Mexico. IRE-Mexico is an independent organization affiliated with Investigative Reporters and Editors of the United States, and works with journalists from Mexico and the rest of Latin America. Previously, Armendares worked as an investigative reporter at La Jornada and other newspapers in Mexico City.

Other invited instructors will include representatives from various non-profit organizations and journalism associations. The goal of this practical training is to help journalists identify and develop ideas and to develop a good system of compiling information.. Interested journalists can apply to the workshop by filling out an application form and sending it to the organizers: Lucia Migliónico at lmiglionico@icfj.org and Wesley Gibbings at wgibbings@tstt.net.tt.

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This is part of a three-year initiative to increase awareness of freedom of expression issues throughout Latin America; ICFJ is conducting a series of workshops in the capital cities of 22 Latin American countries. The project is funded by the McCormick Tribune Foundation.