Middle East

Arabic: Building News Web Sites

ICFJ’s first online course covered the development and strategy behind creating quality news Web sites for Arabic-speaking journalists.

Investigative Journalism is Back in the Arab World

Training at MA’AN News agency studios in Bethlehem.

Knight Fellows Taking pictures of White House at orientation

"The Fellas" outside the white Houe taking snaps for the blogs.

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"Hena Cuevas and Justin Arenstein talk to Amr El-Kahky's Blog"

Hena and Edem

Hena and Edem Djiokoto "framing"

Hena and Edem taking a picture

Hena and Edem Djiokoto "framing".

Fellows taking picture of white house at orientation

"The Fellas" outside the white Houe taking snaps for the blogs.

Jun 142010

Tears and Laughs at the Knight Fellows Orientation

Kathie Klarreich shed tears during a session on Journalistic Ethics during the Knight Fellowship orientation in the American capital Washington.

She remembered how some video journalists handled the victims of Haiti’s Earthquake transmitting their suffering live on TV while they could’ve helped evacuating those under debris.

I asked Kathie who’s heading to Haiti later this year to help revive the country’s devastated media why she cried: "Life and Humanity always come first" she said:

But the orientation was not all about tears.

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"Ethics in Journalism, a tearful story"