Carlos de Jesus and Rita Almeida, trainers for the International Center for Journalists (ICFJ), were among nine Timorese journalists honored at the first Timor-Leste Media Awards dinner in Dili on July 26.

When students at the Universidade de Paz wanted to publish a student newspaper, they turned to ICFJ Saul Salvador H. J. Amaral for help.

ICFJ's Country Director in Timor-Leste, Charles Rice, was recently invited to address the first-ever Congress of the Center for Timor-Leste Investigative Journalists. By emphasizing the role that journalists, particularly investigative journalists, play in society, Rice also urged reporters to make their voices heard when the draft for the new Media Law comes up for discussion in Parliament in late March

Journalists in a second, rural district were linked up with the rest of the country March 20 when ICFJ opened a multimedia journalism facility in the Ermera District town of Gleno.