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The International Center for Journalists (ICFJ) has a long history as a leader in journalism training in Latin America. In 2007, we look forward to expanding our training to Hispanic journalists in the U.S. with two major initiatives. We will also continue our work in the region. See below for details and application information for our programs and training seminars.
ICFJ News
Peruvian Journalist Launches Spanish Personal Finance Web Site
As a Peruvian journalist living in the United States, Jose Melendrez knows what it feels like to make hard financial decisions without a lot of resources. A former business editor for the newspaper Hoy , Melendrez launched an innovative Web site August 1 focused on personal finance, specifically for Latinos. Read more...
Current Latin American Programs
The Hispanic Personal Finance Reporting Program
Program Dates:
First workshop, New York City, May 24-25. Second workshop, Washington, D.C., June 28-29. Deadline June 22
Sponsored by the McGraw-Hill Companies
These workshops will provide hands-on training to journalists with the aim of to improving personal finance literacy in Hispanic communities in the United States. The program is aimed specifically at Latino journalists at Spanish-and English-language Hispanic news organizations in New York City and the Washington, D.C., metro areas. Between 15 and 20 journalists from print, radio, television and on-line news outlets will participate in a two-day workshop. The training will address the full spectrum of critical personal finance topics, including investing, consumer debt, financial planning, mortgages, and retirement planning.
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 The 2007 Sustainable Development and Conservation in the Gulf of California Workshop
Deadline: February 13
Program Dates: March 8-11
Sponsored by the David and Lucile Packard Foundation and the International Community Foundation
Partner: Center of Journalism and Public Ethics (CEPET) and Michigan State University’s Knight Center for Environmental Journalism
This project aims to build the capacity of the news media to cover the Gulf of California ’s development issues in depth. Growth issues range from the construction of a coastal highway, real estate development, tourism policies, agriculture, aquaculture, and climate change. Our workshop will help local and national media improve its sustainable development coverage.
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Información en español>
Immigration Coverage Seminar
Deadline: March 19
Program Dates: April 16-24
A journalism training program sponsored by the McCormick Tribune Foundation and the Scripps Howard Foundation
This training program on coverage of immigration brings 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 will take place in Washington, D.C., April 16-24. Read more>
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Información en español>
Ongoing Programs in Latin America
Knight International Journalism Fellowships
One of ICFJ's most comprehensive efforts in Latin America is the Knight International Journalism Fellowship Program.
Through the Knight program, ICFJ has dispatched more than 40 U.S. journalists and media managers to 22 countries
in Latin America and the Caribbean. Fellows come from a variety of U.S. news media such as The Wall Street
Journal, National Public Radio, The Salt Lake Tribune, the Associated Press and Time magazine.
Fellows spend up to nine months in developing countries providing journalism training and management consulting.
Scripps Howard Latin American Media Ethics Seminar
This annual program brings 10 Latin American journalists to Washington for a two-week seminar on media ethics.
Participants are encouraged to reflect on and evaluate professional practices, discuss journalism independence
and country-specific principles of conduct, contemplate personal codes of ethics and, when they return home,
to continue the discussion in their newsrooms. (Funded by the Scripps Howard Foundation)
Environmental & Science Programs
ICFJ conducts many of its environmental and science programs in Latin America. These programs address medical
health reporting and environmental topics such as conservation and deforestation.
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