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Top IJNet Articles of 2021

As the year comes to an end, we asked our global team of editors and translators to recommend their favorite IJNet articles for 2021. Here you’ll find their selection of pieces written by journalists based in Brazil, Costa Rica, Egypt, France, Hong Kong, Italy, Lebanon, Lithuania, Malawi, Mozambique, Turkey, Uruguay and the U.S.

Hunting for Job Opportunities? Here are Some Tips.

Finding job opportunities can be a daunting task for media professionals, especially recent graduates and freelancers who may not know where to look. 

However, career openings for journalists “are everywhere, ubiquitous, and cosmopolitan,” said Paul Adepoju, the ICFJ Global Health Crisis Reporting Forum community manager.

Learning how to spot job opportunities and hunting them down is what catapulted Adepoju to be the journalist he is today, with bylines in news outlets like Business Insider, Nature, The Lancet, New Scientist, BMJ, Quartz and CNN. 

Newsrooms Team Up to Cover the Impact of the Pandemic on Latin America’s Middle Class

A new collaborative editorial project explores how the COVID-19 crisis in Latin America has affected the middle class, a group that has dwindled in number as millions struggle from economic and health setbacks. Six independent newsrooms, along with ICFJ partner Connectas, teamed up on the coverage, reporting on everything from mental health, jobs, access to healthcare, and the impact of the crisis on women in particular.

How Paraguay's El Surti Became a Regional Model of Visual Journalism

Before joining the Velocidad media business accelerator program, El Surti had a staff of five people. “We were a small team that worked horizontally. Our whole team could work together at one table,” remembers El Surti Director Alejandro Valdez Sanabria. All team members would meet in the newsroom, around a long table where they discussed their news agenda and the possibilities for creating certain stories. They also edited the content and design of their articles together. In that small, common space, in a pre-pandemic world, communication flowed naturally.

Journalists from Kenya, India, Nigeria Take Top Prizes for Reporting on Malnutrition

Leon Lidigu, a Kenyan journalist who revealed the struggles of a vulnerable community faced with malnutrition in school children, has been selected as the first-place winner of the 2021 Global Nutrition and Food Security Reporting Contest.

Tips for Reporting on Vaccines, Hesitancy and Misinformation

The distribution of COVID-19 vaccines in many parts of the world has given people hope that we may finally be nearing the pandemic’s end. There have been, however, mixed reactions to the immunizations, influenced by an abundance of misinformation.

Journalists Create Media Resources with a Latin American Perspective

When the COVID-19 pandemic hit in 2020, the ICFJ Digital Path to Entrepreneurship and Innovation for Latin America (ECA) program pivoted to an online model. Latin American journalists selected for the program participated in a virtual orientation and embedded with U.S. newsrooms remotely. As a new offering for this pandemic format of the program, participants also received seed funding and mentorship for their proposed projects. 

New Hub Offers Support for Journalists Facing Online Violence

For the majority of women working in the news industry today, weathering online attacks has become an ugly reality of the job. Nearly three-quarters of the 714 women journalists who responded to a global ICFJ-UNESCO survey said they had experienced online violence in their professional capacity. And it is an escalating problem.

These 7 Media Projects Shine in the 2020-21 IJNet Arabic Mentoring Center

From the Maghreb to the Levant and in between, our 2020-21 mentees innovated to improve the sustainability of their projects, helping contribute to a more vibrant media climate in the region.

এশিয়ার সাংবাদিক ও মানবাধিকার কর্মীদের জন্য অনলাইন নিরাপত্তা বিষয়ক জরিপের জন্য আপনার বিশেষজ্ঞ জ্ঞান আমাদের প্রয়োজন।

ইন্টারন্যাশনাল সেন্টার ফর জার্নালিজম (আইসিএফজে) এশিয়া মহাদেশের সাংবাদিক ও মানবাধিকার কর্মীদের অনলাইন নিরাপত্তা বিষয়ে একটি মূল্যবান সমীক্ষা জরিপ পরিচালনা করছে। সংবাদমাধ্যমের পেশাজীবী ও মানবাধিকার কর্মীরা তাদের অনলাইন নিরাপত্তার জন্য ঝুঁকিপূর্ণ পরিবেশে কীভাবে কাজ করে চলেছেন, এই জরিপ–গবেষণায় তা প্রতিফলিত হবে, যা অত্যন্ত প্রয়োজন।