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Georgian Journalists Incorporate Game-Based Learning Amid Press Freedom Interference

Tato Gurgenidze and Tea Adeishvili, two Georgian journalists from the news outlet Mtavari Channel, spoke with IJNet ahead of their U.S. tour about their reporting, Georgia’s media landscape, the jailing of their colleague Nika Gvaramia, how the war in Ukraine has affected their work and more.

The Success Stories of IJNet Arabic’s 2022-23 Mentoring Center for Media Startups

With support from the National Endowment for Democracy, the IJNet Arabic Mentoring Center for Media Startups in the Middle East and North Africa has worked with more than 70 media entrepreneurs since launching in 2014, helping them develop their media platforms and improve their financial sustainability.  

Here’s more on the six media entrepreneurs who took part in the 2022-23 Mentoring Center, and their promising initiatives.

Journalists Across 15 African Countries Expand Digital Skills

Godlive is one of 390 journalists from fifteen countries who took part in ICFJ’s African Regional Journalism Workshops, offered in three languages. The online trainings covered ethical newsgathering, investigative reporting, media sustainability and entrepreneurship, mobile journalism and elections journalism. Two dozen journalists from each language cohort were then selected to attend in-person workshops on disinformation and fact-checking. 
 

Helping News Outlets Overcome Their Biggest Business Challenges

Great journalism alone isn’t enough. Independent news coverage cannot reach the communities that need it most if media businesses are not equipped to thrive.

Reportando sobre los nicas migrantes en medio de la inestabilidad política

Regidor propuso a su medio de comunicación nicaragüense, CONFIDENCIAL, una sección dedicada a cubrir la vida de los migrantes. Regidor quería contar las innumerables historias de personas que han abandonado su país. Reconoció que este tema era mucho más importante que un titular. Merecía su propia cobertura y plataforma.

Covering the Lives of Nicaraguan Migrants Amid Political Instability

Regidor pitched her Nicaraguan news outlet, Confidencial, on a section devoted to covering the lives of migrants. Regidor wanted to tell the countless stories of people who have left their country. She recognized that this issue was much bigger than a headline. It deserved its own coverage and platform.

Latin American Journalists Expand Resources to Inform Across the Region

As COVID-19 swept across the world in early 2020, many activities that involved travel were put on hold. International exchanges that aim to train journalists, like ICFJ’s Digital Path to Entrepreneurship and Innovation for Latin America, had to pivot. 

Faced with the new, challenging situation, the program went online. Selected journalists from Latin America received seed funding and virtual mentorship for their proposed projects, in addition to their remote internships with newsrooms in the U.S. 

Embrace Your Inner Nerd to Improve Your Journalism

There is no shortage of digital tools and techniques that you can use to enhance your reporting ــــــ from identifying what stories to tell, and collecting and analyzing data, to more effectively sharing your reporting with a target audience. 

There’s a nerd inside us all we can embrace to accomplish these goals. Here’s how. 

Working with Data? Here's How to Verify Your Sources and Numbers.

The year 2020 wasn’t just dominated by the pandemic. It was also a year of open data. 

Many health-related organizations published daily and real-time updates about the spread of the virus around the world, circulating an unprecedented amount of numbers and figures. The challenge for journalists has been to analyze this information accurately, and communicate their findings to the public effectively.

Journalism Startups Are Going “Beyond Journalism,” Univ. of Amsterdam Professor Tells GBJ Students

Once a year, a Copenhagen journalism startup takes all its best stories and turns them into a theatre show. They travel around the country to perform in front of sold out crowds. On the stage, you can find fun, joy and energy. Journalists reenact stories by interviewing people and inviting artists to join the show. This is one way today’s journalists are going “beyond journalism” in a bid to survive in a rapidly changing world.