Peru

Peru-Hena Oct 2011 blog-Juan Guerra with photographers Beto Rojas and Diego Guevara

Juan Guerra talks shop with photographers Beto Rojas and Diego Guevara

Peru-Hena Oct 2011 blog-Photographer Katia Tapia

Photographer Katia Tapia shoots a knife sharpener to collect nat sound for her video project

Peru-Hena Oct 2011 blog-Journalists from Ayacucho, Lima, and Pucallpa

Peruvian journalists from Ayacucho, Lima and Pucallpa edit their video project

Peru-Hena Oct 2011 blog-photographer Juan Guerra in the ER

Los Angeles photographer Juan Guerra at a medical clinic in Lima, Peru

How does one television network with limited resources cover election issues in a country like Peru, spanning 500,000 square miles? With the help of Knight Fellow Hena Cuevas.

A team of trainers, formed and coached by Hena Cuevas in Peru, is helping the country's largest network of TV stations improve its journalism and technical skills.

Jun 152011

Peru's TV Station Takes its Presidential Election Coverage to New Levels

by Hena Cuevas

All the polls leading up to the June 5 runoff election indicated it would be a tight race between Nationalist candidate Ollanta Humala, and Keiko Fujimori, the daughter of former president Alberto Fujimori, who is serving a 25-year prison sentence for human rights abuses. How best to serve voters and viewers?

Jun 102011

Peruvian Network Provides Its First Online Regional News Coverage during Presidential Election

by Knight Staff

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.

Program:

Peru: Create the First Broadcast Training Center

Knight Fellow Hena Cuevas, in a Skype interview from Peru, discusses how provincial TV stations were able to contribute stories to a national news program. It was a new feature that was part of the Knight Fellowship efforts to improve political coverage in the country.

Knight International Journalism Fellow Hena Cuevas discusses Peru's most recent general election in a Skype interview from Lima.