Online Course: February 27, 2012

ICFJ presents a five-week online course called “Digital Tools for Effective Public Service Journalism” to strengthen journalists’ understanding of public interest issues while providing new multimedia reporting skills. Brazilian journalists from print, TV and online are welcome to participate in the course.

The five-week online course is scheduled to start February 27, 2012. Forty journalists will learn how to apply digital technologies to their day-to-day work and to deliver quality, ethical information to their audiences using the latest tools and trends.

The deadline to apply is January 30, 2012.

Click here to submit an application.

Questions regarding the application should be e-mailed to ferramentas@icfj.org

The participants will be introduced to such tools and techniques as refined online search, map mashups to track such things as pollution sources, preparing photos and videos for upload to websites and blogs, and how to create a blog and a wiki.

This is the fourth ICFJ program that AT&T has supported for Latin American journalists. Journalists in past projects have produced multimedia stories on community issues such as basic city services, federal money distribution and river pollution. AT&T funded a similar course run by ICFJ for Spanish-speaking journalists at the Digital Journalism Center at the University of Guadalajara in Mexico.