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 For decades, the International Center for Journalists’ International Journalism Exchange has brought experienced newspaper, broadcast or online editors from the developing world to the U.S. to observe how media are managed here.
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ICFJ offered an online course on immigration coverage for journalists from Latin Ameria and the US Hispanic media. The program helped journalists understand the legal, social, economic, and political impact of the immigration debate while providing new skills on how to cover this complex issue. The program date: June 1-19.
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 ICFJ conducted a four-day regional health journalism conference for 35 journalists from 12 Latin America countries. Topical training focused on coverage of cancer, smocking cessation, and prevention of cardiovascular diseases.
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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.
The program, which ran from Oct. 22 to Nov. 6, was designed to let the journalists see American democracy at work. To achieve that goal, it placed them at the center of the electoral storm. The program was sponsored by the U.S. State Department's Foreign Press Center.
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The International Center for Journalists (ICFJ) held a workshop on covering community forestry and forest conservation for Mexican journalists. The workshop was held in Oaxaca, Mexico from April 3-6.
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 Latin American journalists received training on how to report about health issues (en español).
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 Stories of disasters, natural and manmade, are a staple of journalism in the United States and Latin America, indeed everywhere. Mexico, Central America and the Andean nations are eternally plagued with earthquakes, many with great loss life. ICFJ equipped 14 U.S. Hispanic and Latin American journalists with essential tools to better respond on and report on disasters with its May program “Emergency Preparedness: Reporting on Disasters." The program took place in Washington, DC and New Orleans. The program concluded with reporting projects that participants were able to take back to their home media.
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 The Scripps Howard Latin American Media Ethics Seminar assisted news media and journalists in Latin America to identify common threads of professional behavior, stimulate a dialogue about journalism independence, discuss country-specific principles of conduct, and encourage participants to reflect on their own personal code of ethics and to continue the discussion about ethics in their own newsrooms.
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 Knight International has helped radio stations serving indigenous rural communities in Guatemala to build NoticiasdemiGente.com, a Web site for sharing content. Led by Knight Fellow Maria Martin rural radio reporters now can upload stories and disseminate them across the country.
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 ICFJ's April 2007 seminar on immigration coverage brought Latin American journalists together with U.S. journalists from English- and Spanish-language media. The group has since created a virtual newsroom through their active listserv, sharing reporting techniques, editing tips and even sources. This program was sponsored by the McCormick Tribune Foundation.
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