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The hunt for vanishing news

When Martin is on safari the only news he gets is delivered in paw prints, dung droppings and from vultures buzzing overhead that tell him what animals passed through the night before, what animals may still be lurking, and which lost battles with their predators.

“That is my newspaper when I am in the bush,” he told us. He had been sharing that news with us for the last two days in South Luangwa Park where he was our guide. Over lunch he also gave us his take on politics, corruption and economy in Zambia , which newspaper is the most entertaining, which is the most credible.

En la escuela de El País, se enfatiza lo fundamental del periodismo

Las clases de redacción y reporterismo cristalizan el proceso editorial de una buena redacción. Más periódicos y universidades deben usar esta práctica.

Camilo Valdecantos Pascual corrige el trabajo de los estudiantes desplegado en la pantalla.

La Escuela de Periodismo de El País sigue usando una antigua pero eficaz técnica para capacitar a periodistas: clases de corrección y redacción cada semana.

El proceso es exactamente el mismo que experimenta un reportero en cualquier buena redacción.

México tiene banda ancha lenta y cara; se necesita más competencia

Un estudio de servicio de Internet en 30 países puso México en el último lugar en términos de velocidad y entre los más costosos.

Acceso a Internet inalámbrico es gratuito en este parque en Colima, México.

La Organización para la Cooperación y el Desarrollo Económico señalo recientemente que México necesita más competencia en la telefonía para reducir el costo del servicio.

De acuerdo con el estudio, el costo promedio de Internet de banda ancha en México es de $US 55 mensuales, comparado a US$ 24 en Estados Unidos.

Francia provee subvenciones para que los periódicos no fallen

De manera muy francesa, el gobierno de Sarkozy intenta proteger 100,000 empleos por invertir 600 millones de euros más en tres años.

Luis Miguel González, editor de Público en México,  escribe en CNNExpansión del plan de Sarkozy y se pregunta si algo similar le servirá a México.

Su pregunta principal en la columna es, “¿Estamos ante un plan visionario que, eventualmente, se extenderá a otros países o es una ocurrencia que da cuenta de la excentricidad francesa?” Los miles de periódistas norte

South Africa's 4th AIDS conference: The politics of HIV in South Africa.

On a dark Durban night in June 2000, two of South Africa’s leading HIV/AIDS researchers were unexpectedly called to a meeting in a plush room at the city’s Hilton Hotel. “The minister wants to see you! Now!” a government official had simply barked at Professors Salim Abdool Karim and Jerry Coovadia, who were both in the process of releasing groundbreaking studies at the International AIDS Conference.

Both men had previously been critical of their government’s response to the epidemic which was at the time killing thousands of their compatriots.

Local journalism: the challenge in Bolivia

In a recent workshop about journalism, organized by a consortium of universities in Santa Cruz, the brasilian Osman Patzzi, member of the ONADEM -the National Media Observatory-, concluded that local journalism that involves the community, and that talks about its problems, is the future solution for the current crisis that the sector is living due to the impact of digital tools and the world financial difficulties.

Although I had already visited some of them, this last weekend I held my first workshop after several weeks preparing suitable material to answer real journalistic problems, not

LA CORRUPCION VISTA DESDE AMBOS LADOS DEL MOSTRADOR

La lucha contra la corrupcion merece ser mirada de manera mas amplia y abarcante de los sectores publicos y privados.

Foreign Exchange Brings Impressions of Home

I would have looked up Ndubi Mvula, the Zambia Daily Mail's Livingstone bureau chief, in any case. His health reporting had been mentioned to me several times and Livingstone has the highest rate of HIV in the country. The stories there are important, and I looked forward to working with him to tell them in depth. And it's nice to know someone in a nice place. Adding to the fun, though, was that he had just come from my place -- all over the place, covering the most critical American presidential election in either of our memories.

Use UHCA to learn - through experience

Editors Note: Fellow Chris Conte work towards sustainable impact with UHCAIn late 2007, when I learned that I would be coming to Uganda to train and support health journalists here, I sought advice from Bobby Pestronk, the longest serving and one of the most highly respected local public health officials in the U.S. “The first thing you need to realize,” he told me, “is that nothing you do is going to make a difference.”

He was talking mainly about health, where lasting improvements only come with time. But his bleak comment applies to journalism too.

Periodistas deben contar historias de nueva manera, con herramientas digitales

Entre el 15 y el 19 de marzo, 20 periodistas becados de México, República Dominicana, Argentina, Perú, Chile, Brasil, Bolivia, Colombia, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Estados Unidos, El Salvador y Guatemala coincidieron en el Curso Herramientas Digitales para un Efectivo Periodismo de Servicio Público organizado por la Universidad de Guadalajara, México, y el International Center for Journalists.