Raju Narisetti, managing editor of The Wall Street Journal Digital Network, has joined the International Center for Journalists' Board of Directors. A leader in media innovation, Narisetti brings global expertise in digital journalism's power to report news and engage audiences. Narisetti is also the Deputy Managing Editor of The Wall Street Journal.

An ICFJ exchange program for Pakistani and U.S. journalists is having one key impact: Stereotypes are going by the wayside fast. After working in U.S. newsrooms around the country, Pakistani reporters said that personal interactions with Americans helped to dispel many myths. They discovered that Americans do care deeply about family and that Muslims have a voice in U.S. society. "I had so many stereotypes when I came here," said one participant. "Would you believe that all the stereotypes have gone?

With its focus on global environmental issues, NationalGeographic.com is highlighting a digital map launched by Knight International Journalism Fellow Gustavo Faleiros, including the use of layered filters that can help data journalists track the effects of forest fires, deforestation and extractive industries like mining.

During a new regional training initiative, South Asian journalists from six countries created iPod Touch videos of farmers in southern Sri Lanka, where rising sea levels have increased salinity in fields and changes in rainfall patterns have disrupted the rice-planting season.

Climate changes have contributed to the farmer’s loss of income – but so have the drainage channels they dug initially to drain the fields, which now bring in seawater.