Peruvian daily La Prensa features Knight Fellow Jorge Luis Sierra's crime-mapping project, Mi Panama Transparente, which enables citizens to report local crimes that trained journalists - including those at La Prensa - investigate and upload to the digital mapping system.

La Estrella highlights Knight Fellow Jorge Luis Sierra's digital crime-mapping project, Mi Panama Transparente. Citizen journalists report issues and trained journalists investigate these claims before uploading them to the digital map, tracking corruption across the nation.

Indian weekly Tehelka features Knight Fellow Shubhranshu Choudhary's mobile news service, CGNet Swara, which offers a platform for tribal Indians to report on local issues. The article explains the project's mission and its successes - a liquor store near a school was closed because of citizens' reports after the government was trying to relocate the school instead.

By Bassam Sebti

Cairo Today, a program that airs on Orbit satellite channel, has recently featured the citizen journalism program that ICFJ has been running in Cairo in a special TV report.

The report discussed the program’s goals and objectives, in which citizen and professional journalists have been receiving quality journalism training by ICFJ’s trainers.

“We are all journalists,” Hanazada Fikry, the country program director in Egypt, was quoted saying.