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Power Outages Cripple Businesses Including Public Agenda, Newspaper Reports on the Issue

Since the beginning of the year, several communities in Accra have been experiencing major power outages as well as water shortages. What it means is that the power will go out for hours, crippling some businesses, like Public Agenda. When the power's out we sit around and talk politics and journalism; some people use it as a time to take a walk or go get the standard lunch -- rice and some sort of meat or fish in a sauce made with plenty of palm oil or, if it's Wednesday, fufu with meat or fish (it's heavier food and it keeps the reporters full on production nights).

Partner Organization Wins Ghana National Honorary Award for "The Best In Print Media"

Early into our partnership with Public Agenda, which bills itself as "Ghana's only advocacy and development newspaper," the publication received an award from the Ghana National Honorary Awards Hall of Fame for being "the best print media" in the promotion of peace during and after the 2008 presidential elections.  CACG said the newspaper won because of its "independent news presentation and analysis, effective monitoring and supervision of electoral activities before, during and after the 2008 elections towards ensuring free, fair, and transparent elections."

Stepping into the middle of a long story

LUSAKA, ZAMBIA — Who is leading the fight against AIDS in Zambia?

That was the question that brought about 100 people together at the Intercontinental Hotel here today. And the answer was -- not nearly enough of the people who should be. That was the question that brought about 100 people together at the Intercontinental Hotel here today. And the answer was -- not nearly enough of the people who should be.

Father Michael Kelly, an Irish-born Jesuit priest and now a Zambian and AIDS expert was there.

Nuevas ideas para financiar el periodismo en la Web

Incluso hay un debate sobre el valor de poner AdSense en su blog Nuevas ideas para financiar periodismo en Internet

La situación financiera de New York Times ha despertado mucha habla (y blah blah blah) sobre cómo financiar un periodismo de calidad.

Realmente no hay muchos ejemplos de buenos modelos, sino sí hay analistas que entienden bien la situación actual.

Más bancarotas en los periódicos de Estados Unidos

Los medios en América Latina tienen tiempo para cambiarse y evitar el mismo destino. El desastre a cámara lenta sigue con la declaracion de quiebra de periódicos en Philadelphia.

Los periódicos en línea deben adoptar estrategias de Google, señala Jeff Jarvis

El famoso bloguero y profesor de periodismo en la CUNY argumenta que los medios deben ser gratuitos (o casi) y vincularse con sus competidores. Para sobrevivir, los medios tradicionales como periódicos deben ceder control a los usuarios, derribar las murallas alrededor de sus contenidos y vincularse con el resto del mundo mediático.

En otras palabras, deben hacerse más como Google.

Learning patience is easier here, but still hard

LUSAKA, ZAMBIA — I had already spent a jet-lagged weekend here, strolling the dirt footpaths to the center of town and to the local shopping strip before I met the editor of the paper where I will be stationed the next year.

That may be why when I asked him if he thought journalists here would be receptive to the support I hope to offer, I found his answer as credible as I did.

"Yes, they will.

On My Way to Zambia

When I started writing about the public health in Palm Beach County, Florida, five years ago, I didn’t imagine that what I learned would lead me to AIDS conferences in Australia and Mexico, to prisons and brothels in the Caribbean, and now, to Zambia where I will spend the next year working with health journalists.

First weeks in Santa Cruz, Bolivia

It has been already three weeks!! I arrived to Bolivia with my family the 16th of january to work with the ICFJ implementing a digital platform that will entitle the journalists from rural areas to share their contents and stories. My partner in Santa Cruz will be Radio Fides, a networks of stations owned by the jesuitic company and considered to be one of the most serious and balanced in a country torn by a fierce political struggle between the capital, La Paz, and the capital of the eastern part, Santa Cruz.

Explosion rocks newspaper office -- and a journalist's instinct kicks in

Editors Note: Fire in downtown Nairobi causes scare.The first time the lights went out during this morning’s news meeting, it was just a minor annoyance. Ditto the second time. After all, at Nation Media Group headquarters in the heart of downtown Nairobi, you can expect a powerful generator to kick in quickly whenever there’s a power outage. It’s already happened several times during my six-month tenure as a Knight Health Journalism Fellow based at the Nation Centre.