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From on the ground to on the air: Why NGOs need to think more like journalists

Written by jessica. Posted on July 13, 2008. Filed under Uncategorized. Tagged , , , , , . No comments.
In our digital environment, everyone is a producer of content. Including journalists. This means that typically bottom-rung newspaper and television reporters begin to function less like fact gatherers and more like editors, culling and packaging content rather than writing up facts. As UK journalism professor Paul Bradshaw writes in his multipart post about the 21st [...]

June 24: An Instructive Seminar For CRS’ Staff

Written by jessica. Posted on June 26, 2008. Filed under Uncategorized. Tagged , , , , , , , , , . No comments.
Our second training seminar took place on 24 June at the offices of Catholic Relief Services in Sodeco, Beirut. The tutorial was attended by a dozen or so members of the CRS staff and covered a selection of topics on Web 2.0. We launched the workshop by familiarizing the audience with the concept of Web [...]