Evan Osnos, staff writer for The New Yorker and the magazine’s China correspondent, spoke recently to students in the Global Business Journalism program at Tsinghua University in Beijing.

Many voters across Peru were able for the first time to see local coverage of the hotly-contested June 5, 2011, presidential runoff by watching reports online and on the air, thanks to a year-long project by Knight International Journalism Fellow Hena Cuevas.

In five provincial areas of Peru, TV stations that belong to the Red TV network produced Election Day stories and uploaded them to YouTube.

In August 2010, Knight International Journalism Fellow Hena Cuevas began working to launch Peru’s first broadcast journalism training network for Enlace Nacional, a news program on Red TV that features reports from stations around the country. Presidential elections were then less than a year away. When the general election was held in April 2011, the results of the training were obvious.

The program has had tremendous impact. “Frankly, a lot of the stories are better than what I’m seeing in personal finance publications, because these journalists are tackling real world, hard-hitting, current issues,” says University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill business journalism professor, the English-language trainer in the program.