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Trinidad and Tobago journalists invited to workshop on covering elections
Posted on: 01/03/2010 Politics and Elections Deadline: 06/03/2010 Country: Caribbean CountriesThe Association of Caribbean MediaWorkers (ACM) invites journalists from Trinidad and Tobago to a one-day training on the coverage of elections. The workshop will take place at the United Nations Information Centre for the Caribbean Area on March 6.
The workshop will be led by ACM President Wesley Gibbings and veteran journalists Lennox Grant and Raoul Pantin. Gibbings and Grant are editors of the ACM Election Handbook for Caribbean Journalists published in 2009.
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- 03/09/2010
Asia and the Pacific, Eastern Europe-Central Eurasia, Latin America, Middle East and North Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa, Worldwide - Journalists are invited to attend a digital publishing event in Nairobi, Kenya. The workshop is on September 21, and participants must register by September 3. The workshop, sponsored by the Information for Change Initiative, will examine digital publishing models in East Africa.
- ICFJ offers Arabic online course on business reporting
- 03/09/2010
- Journalists from the Gulf Arab countries are invited to apply for an online course in business journalism that will be held September 17 to October 29.
- Multimedia reporting workshop to be held in Tehran
- 04/09/2010
- Dourbin.net, a photojournalism agency in Iran, is offering a multimedia reporting workshop in Tehran on September 5. Deadline: September 4. The workshop includes training on photo editing, audio editing and producing multimedia for the web. For more information in Persian click here.
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- Who should be called a journalist?
- 02/09/2010
- First and foremost he should be following principles of journalism.Anyone writing without these principles should ordinarily be outside the purview of journalism.The values of journalism are coming down as a result of new comers who have undergone a journalism course but do not believe in journalistic principles.Rather they bring a bad name to it. The situation of people who write or contribute something to media(or new media) is not something different than this.They cannot be called journalists.Some television channels call them citizen journalists or someone who can just click something and the TV channels can air it.The content can also have something of journalistic value but the individual rarely believes in it consistently.I think the bar should higher than this.Otherwise journalism is doomed. Prashant Pathrabe
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- كيف ينبغي على الصحفيين استخدام المعلومات التي يجدونها على الشبكات الاجتماعية؟
- 02/09/2010
- المصادر الموثوقة صعبة الحصول عليها سواء كانت افتراضية ام على ارض الواقع ومهنة الصحافة تحتاج الى السرعة ويجب الاعتماد على معرفة الصحفي واطلاعه على جميع المصادر ومقارنتها ببعض لخدمة موضوعه
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- Who should be called a journalist?
- 02/09/2010
- Anybody writing anywhere without a liabilty cannot be called a journalist. The newspapers had long decided it. Anybody writing occasionally but without a formal association with a newspaper has been treated as a writer and not journalist. One can argue that then newspapers also used to act as gatekeepers and did not allow publication by anybody. Yes, the Letters to the Editor column was there but the writers were never considered journalist. There were also, and even now there are, people who send well-written news items. They are accepted or rejected after verification. Now the net has replaced the newspaper in some ways. Anybody can start a blog, a so called news portal, on his own and satisfy his hobby of writing. But how can they be called a journalist? A journalist, that is why has been differentiated by the epithet working journalist as in India and many other countries. For a working journalist writing is not a hobby, nor an occasional flip. It is a regular serious business-profession to create a dialogue in the soiciety. It should not be trivialised by calling anybody or everybody as journalist. We should not accept the epithet Citizen Journalist. A citizen can be a journalist if he adhers to the ethics and undertakes the responsbility that is attached to the profession. Sorry, once a while giving an information to the TV channel or net, one may feel he has become journalist much to the daangers attached to it. The citizen at best is a source. Can a journalist or a news organisation accept any information sent by a citizen without verification? It is not possible. So once again our request is not to call anybody a journalist. He is only a source and could be given acknowldgement as such. Calling a source, a journalist would be an insult to the Working Journalist - Shivaji Sarkar, President, Indian Media Centre, Delhi Chapter and Course Director, Journalism, Indian Institute of Mass Communication (Janmashtami,Sept 2, 2010)
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- Kenyan journalist discusses science and environmental journalism
- 02/09/2010
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