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Knight International Scholarship for Sierra Leon Students at International Center For Journalists USA

Posted by on July 25, 2011 Comments Off

Sierra Leone: Launching the First Public Broadcasting Service,

Stephen Douglas launched the country’s first media training center at the new Sierra Leone Broadcasting Corporation (SLBC), and has served as its interim director. He coordinates all journalism and media management training funded by groups such as Deutsche Welle, Journalists for Human Rights, BBC World Service Trust and the United Nations. Courses range from media law and basic radio reporting to journalism ethics and TV camera operation. Douglas is compiling a training “bible” that will include all of the guidelines he has developed during the fellowship, including a guide to help members of SLBC’s board of directors better understand and follow the principles of public broadcasting. As part of that effort, he has developed hiring guidelines for all positions at SLBC. He also is helping to design the new public broadcaster’s first website.

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http://knight.icfj.org/OurWork/FellowshipsOverview/SierraLeoneNewPublicbrBroadcaster/tabid/1696/Default.aspx

Knight International Journalism Fellowship at International Center for Journalists USA

Posted by on July 25, 2011 Comments Off

Zambia: Ramping up Health Coverage to Saves Lives,

Zarina Geloo launched the country’s first weekly health page in the Times of Zambia, the country’s largest daily newspaper. She trained a team of a dozen reporters to cover issues such as AIDS prevention, malaria, measles and cancer. A front-page story on a measles epidemic led to a government vaccination campaign targeting 1.6 million people. A series on typhoid cases from contaminated drinking water in the capital triggered a government investigation and a new water treatment program. Geloo also created a health journalists’ association, the Forum for Health Writers, which provides briefings with health experts. One journalist who regularly attends the Forum briefings created a twice-weekly, health call-in show on Radio Phoenix, a private station in the capital. The show features experts from the Forum briefings. The Forum also produces a monthly newsletter that is distributed to more than 650 journalists in southern Africa, including about 250 in Zambia. In April, ICFJ received a grant from the Washington, D.C.-based Campaign for Tobacco Free Kids to conduct a media workshop on the impact of smoking and on tobacco-control measures in Zambia. Geloo organized the curriculum and served as the lead trainer.

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http://knight.icfj.org/OurWork/FellowshipsOverview/ZambiaRampingUpbrHealthCoverage/tabid/1552/Default.aspx