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ICFJ Knight Roundup: impactAFRICA Launches Contest for Water, Sanitation Reporting

As part of the Knight International Media Innovators blog, the ICFJ Knight team will round up stories focused on how their fellows are making an impact in the field. Find out more about the fellows' projects by clicking here.

Push App Helps Azerbaijan's Meydan TV Go Mobile

Azerbaijan is a pretty terrible country to be a journalist in these days. The Committee to Protect Journalists named it last year as one of the 10 countries iin the world where the media face the most restrictions.

Meydan TV, the last independent news outlet in the country, is trying to do something about that. According to their internal statistics, Meydan TV reached one-sixth of the country's population last month. One-third of every person in Azerbaijan on Facebook has "liked" them.

Washington Post's Emilio Garcia-Ruiz Shares Tips for a Successful News Business Model

The vision of Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos is that a news organization has to make its work available free, everywhere. Bezos is urging the publication's journalists to adopt the principles of retail sales that he has learned over the years in running Amazon, America's largest online retailer of practically everything.

Training the Next Generation of Tunisian Media Professionals

Building on the success of the 2014 program, ICFJ will continue hosting a one-year program that allows Tunisian students seeking their master’s degree in journalism the opportunity to train and report in the United States. The participants will learn practical skills to enhance their reporting, meet with experts working in their field of interest and immerse themselves in U.S. culture.

Iraqi-U.S. Journalist Exchange Program

The Iraqi-U.S. Journalism Exchange program took place over a 12-day period. Part of the “Iraqi-U.S. Journalist Exchange” program, five Iraqi commentators embarked on a study tour that featured meetings with experts and visits to newsrooms and innovation centers in Washington D.C., and New York City. The program aimed to help these leading Iraqi commentators gain a better understanding of U.S. foreign policy towards Iraq, U.S.-Iraqi bilateral relations and the role of think tanks.

ICFJ Announces Breakthrough Program for Cuban and U.S. Journalists

WASHINGTON, D.C. — As relations between the United States and Cuba normalize, the International Center for Journalists (ICFJ) is launching a groundbreaking program that will bring independent Cuban journalists to work with their counterparts in Miami-based newsrooms to create a peer-to-peer learning network. Supported by $110,000 from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, a private United States-based foundation, the fellowship program will help Cuban journalists and bloggers foster engagement with U.S. journalists to strengthen their journalism.

How an ICFJ Program Will Bridge the Information Gap With Cuba

Last August, I made my first trip to Cuba as part of a group touring farms and gardens. I’ve traveled to dozens of countries as a journalist and manager of media training programs, but this island nation just south of Florida held such fascination that I latched onto a chance to see it as a tourist, on an officially approved people-to-people cultural trip. Secretary of State John Kerry preceded me by a week, opening the U.S.

ICFJ Knight Roundup: Knight Fellow's Media Party to Return to Miami for Two-day Event

As part of the Knight International Media Innovators blog, the ICFJ Knight team will round up stories focused on how their fellows are making an impact in the field. Find out more about the fellows' projects by clicking here.

ICFJ Knight Fellows Showcase Open Source Newsroom Tools for NICAR 2016 Conference

During their fellowships, the ICFJ Knight Fellows help spur a culture of media innovation and experimentation.

New Website Helps Families Hit by Zika Virus

In December, when Brazil was only beginning to grasp the threat posed by the Zika virus, an intrepid reporter on an ICFJ health journalism program wrote about the severity of the problem.