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Maputo flooded after heavy rains

Editors Note: Six hours of non-stop rain bring city to standstill in Mozambique.

It started with a tap-tap-tap on the window around 3 AM. Half asleep, I thanked the rain as a blessing, a respite from the scorching heat we’ve been having in Maputo, up to 38 Celsius.

The tap-tap-tap became a steady, non-stop, six-hour-long downpour. By 8 am, chunks of the city were cut off. People could not go to work.  In the Baixa, the financial centre downtown, by the bay, people were swimming with water at chest level. Muddy water flooded into banks and shops. Traffic stopped. Schools closed.

El posible desastre que les espera a los medios latinoamericanos

El Grupo Prisa, la empresa matriz del diario El País de España, está en aprietos por su agobiante deuda y debe vender algunos afiliados.

Francia subvenciona periódicos con 600 millones de euros para salvarlos.

Periodismo digital en latinoamérica: maestrías, diplomados y especializaciones

Para ver todo en forma de hoja de cálculo (spreadsheet), pulse aquí.

Empresarios emergentes apoyan periodismo independiente en Etiqueta Negra

La revista peruana Etiqueta Negra ha logrado una posición envidiable: tiene reputación mundial por sus crónicas y ensayos así como independencia editorial por su forma de financiarse.

Varios han escrito acerca del modelo periodístico del medio, pero no del modelo de negocios que lo hace posible.

La versión de la revista en la Web atrae a una audiencia de 90.000 usuarios al mes pero no genera ingresos. En cambio la circulación impresa de solamente 3.000 ejemplares mensuales atrae publicidad sustantiva.

8 modelos de financiamiento que puedes seguir para lanzar tu propio medio digita

¿Conoces otros modelos interesantes? Por favor, envíame la información para que la agregue a este blog y la ponga a disposición de todos los periodistas que quieran crear sus propios medios.

1. Etiqueta Negra de Perú: Los hermanos Jara tenían una imprenta y crearon esta revista de cultura y periodismo narrativo para atraer a un nuevo grupo de clientes comerciales.

A Shining Example

An award from the Minister of Health is just one prize for Daily Mail's malaria reporting, as journalists see rates of the disease drop.

Plane talk about apricot-sized hearts

Editors Note: Repairing tiny faulty hearts in Maputo - what's Tina Turner got to do with it?In our busy interconnected lives, the only spaces where we are off-line and off-cellphone may be the shower and the airplane. Showers one mostly takes alone. Planes are a collective space but we, mass travel sufferers and on-line junkies, act as if they weren’t.

We shut down and hunker into our individual bubble without even a hello to the next passenger. We use flight time to read, work, doze, or just be, as Greta Garbo would say: Ah-lone.

It is understandable.

The Chandler Bing Complex

Those who've watched the TV show "Friends" might recall that the characters never knew exactly what was the job of one of their best mates, Chandler Bing.

Well, for well over a month I knew how it was to be in Chandler Bing's shoes, although, on my behalf, I must add that what I am doing is far more exciting than working in a data processing job, like Chandler.

First of all, there isn`t a title, as I had in the past: correspondent, producer, reporter, none of those fit the mould.

I had, and still have, to come up with a tagline, which went something along these lines:

" I`m recruit

Earthquakes & Media Freedoms

Editors Note: Media freedoms in Ghana compromise credibility of news.

This morning thousands of people all over Ghana arrived late for work and they were exhausted from being up all night… all for the same reason. No, it had nothing to do with a sports match in a different time zone. Ghanaians everywhere did not sleep because they feared an earthquake.

Digital journalism course opens with participants from 10 Latin American countries

This is the second time the course has been offered, and there are updated course materials as well as a new platform.

This weekend the Center for Digital Journalism will start offering a five-week online course called "The Challenge and Opportunities of Digital Journalism" for 48 participants. 

There are two sections of the class, one of practicing journalism professionals and one of professors at the University of Guadalajara, where the Center is based.