ICFJ Programs in Political

  • Chile: Expand Poderopedia, a Site Linking Business and Politics, Across the Region

    In Partnership With: 
    Poderomedia
    In Partnership With: 
    Hacks/Hackers Chile

    Knight International Journalism Fellow Miguel Paz will speed the development and use of the Knight News Challenge-winning platform Poderopedia, which reveals links among business and political leaders. He will bring Poderopedia to Venezuela and to other nations, creating a cross-border community that uses the platform. He will introduce customized versions of Poderopedia in newsrooms and civic media projects.

  • Beyond the Capitals: Exposing Regional U.K. Journalists to Politics Outside of Washington

    The International Center for Journalists (ICFJ) has partnered with the U.S. Embassy London Public Affairs Office (PAO) to bring seven journalists from regional outlets in the United Kingdom to the United States to cover politics with an emphasis on the presidential inauguration, set for Monday, January 21. The program will offer the journalists a rare opportunity to travel to various U.S. states and learn about the impact of presidential politics on ordinary Americans “beyond the Beltway.”

  • Beyond the Border: Covering the Immigration Phenomenon through Digital Media

    In Partnership With: 
    Scripps Howard Foundation

    The Scripps Howard Immigration reporting training program brings together journalists from the U.S. Spanish and English-language media for a week-long training on how to cover immigration issues using multimedia tools.

    ICFJ is currently seeking applicants for the 2012 Scripps immigration reporting program. The program is scheduled to take place Sunday July 15, 2012 through Sunday July 22, 2012 in Washington, D.C.

    The application deadline is Monday May 28, 2012.

    The 2012 program will have a special focus on the U.S. 2012 presidential election and immigration.

  • The Henry Luce Foundation Program to Promote Excellence in Global Coverage of Religion

    Continuing its efforts to improve coverage of religion around the world, ICFJ has launched a two-year program for American and international journalists who cover religious issues. By improving professional skills and increasing the dialogue around religion, ICFJ hopes to encourage journalists to engage the subject more openly and free of bias, and simultaneously more respectfully and critically.

    The program is designed to:

    • Improve U.S.

  • Liberia: Create Commercially Viable Radio Stations Using New Marketing Strategies

    In Partnership With: 
    UNESCO

    Luisa Handem Piette is a Knight International Journalism Fellow who is coaching management at four independent newspapers and three radio stations in Liberia to become profitable. She started the Media and Business Sustainability Exchange (MBS), a monthly meeting that brings together Liberian media managers and other members of the business community, including the Liberia Chamber of Commerce. The goal: to help the news media attract clients and educate businesses on the value of buying ads in a country where most advertising still comes from the government and NGOs.

  • Colombia: Use Crowd Sourcing Technology to Track Crime and Corruption

    In Partnership With: 
    El Tiempo
    In Partnership With: 
    Consejo de Redaccion

    Knight International Journalism Fellow Ronnie Lovler is helping El Tiempo, Colombia’s largest newspaper, develop a website that uses citizen reports to map crime in the capital city of Bogota. Modeled after a similar Fellowship project in Panama, citizens and citizen journalists will post information on the map. Lovler will train El Tiempo journalists to use the map to identify trends and produce investigative stories about crime and violence. El Tiempo plans to expand the project nationally.

  • Peru: Create the First Broadcast Training Center

    In Partnership With: 
    Red TV

    Hena Cuevas trained broadcast news reporters and producers in Peru to improve the quality of news reports and increase local news in national coverage. Her partner, the National Association of Local Television Channels (Red TV), is Peru’s largest network of local TV stations, an alliance of 40 independent channels that reaches more than a third of Peru’s TV viewers. She has created a two-person training team that is working with Red TV’s affiliates to improve everything from reporting standards to camera work.

  • Reporting Across Cultures: Freedom of Expression in the Digital Age

    Journalists from across the Arab world, North America, Europe, Pakistan and Indonesia participated in an online training course entitled “Freedom of Expression in the Digital Age.” Select participants were chosen to participate in a conference in Alexandria, Egypt in February 2010 that focused on freedom of expression and reporting on Muslim-West relations.

  • India: Make Government Data More Accessible to Journalists

    In Partnership With: 
    AOL India

    Kannaiah Venkatesh's new association, Journalists for eGovernance and Transparency, helps reporters and freedom-of-information activists use the 2005 Right to Information (RTI) Act to produce investigative stories. The association protects the identity of journalists and activists seeking information by submitting RTI requests on their behalf, critically important in the region.

  • The Election 2008 Visiting Journalists Program

    Readers and listeners all over the world enjoyed special insight into the U.S. presidential election as a result of the Elections 2008 Visiting Journalists Program, which brought 48 journalists from 46 countries to cover the historic campaign and vote.

  • Ghana: Promoting Free and Fair Election Coverage

    In Partnership With: 
    The Mail and Guardian

    Knight International enabled journalists in Ghana to generate balanced reports on their country's 2008 presidential election. Knight Fellow Alison Bethel produced a first-of-its-kind election handbook that journalists used to focus on important issues and avoid stories that fuel partisan strife. The handbook was widely distributed to journalists throughout the capital.

  • Liberia: Bolstering Coverage of the Courts in Post-Conflict Era

    In Partnership With: 
    AllAfrica

    Marquita Smith is a Knight International Journalism Fellow who helped launch the Judicial Reporters Network in Liberia. Smith formed this association and trained its members to cover the country’s fledgling legal system. Inspired by Smith, Ora Garway, a journalist in the association, launched a newspaper called The Punch that focuses on legal reporting. Garway was the country’s first woman managing editor. Smith returned to Liberia in June 2010 to help Garway develop a business plan for the new newspaper and create a website featuring coverage of the justice system.

  • Guinea: Helping Journalists Hold Officials Accountable

    In Partnership With: 
    The Guinean Observatory of Media Professional Ethics (OGUIDEM)

    In a country where a stable government is slowly starting to emerge after years of conflict, Knight International worked with radio journalists to monitor political leaders. Knight Fellow Vianney Missumbi also helped improve election coverage, despite repeated postponements of the vote. He revived a journalism association and enabled reporters to break stories that are prompting local officials to address important issues.