Each morning at 10, the voices start. “Ah, aiy, eee, ohh, ooo,” they say, the chant punctuated by an occasional giggle. Over and over, the aspiring radio reporters struggle to perfect their vowels.

When a bomb exploded on February 15 near Mexico City's Security Ministry, just a few blocks away from the Televisa news headquarters, the first word of the explosion – which killed one person – came not from the wires, but from a colleague. Jill Begovich, an intern at Televisa online, heard about the blast just as soon as it happened, when news of the explosion was broadcast by radio reporters who happened to be on the scene. "My first impulse was to call in," Begovich said.

Leaders of the world’s top media training and development groups gathered in Sweden June 1-4, 2008, for a conference that created the first global network of independent journalism training organizations.

On March 17, 2008, Tribun Pekanbaru, a local newspaper that is part of the Persda newspaper group in Indonesia, published a photo showing used syringes floating in the drain of Ibu dan Anak (Mother and Child) Zaenab Hospital. A private hospital in Pekanbaru, capital of Riau Province in Sumatra, Ibu dan Anak Zaenab treats mothers and children. Like all but three hospitals in the province, it does not have a waste water treatment facility, nor does it have an incinerator to burn medical and hospital waste.