April 5, 2010
Brazilian journalist and professor Carlos Castilho knows that in today’s Information Age, journalism instructors often feel pressured from students born in a digital era, and from academic structures that many times are pre-digital. As such, Castilho is teaching the Knight Center for Journalism in the America’s new online course, “Journalism 2.0 for Instructors,” which he […]
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Journalists need to learn to consider the computer as their best friend, and the Introduction to Computer Assisted Reporting course from the Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas is designed to do just that. The computer is the “fundamental tool to obtain information, analyze it, store it in a way to be able to […]
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One hundred journalists from 17 countries recently completed the latest version of the Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas online course, “Digital Tools for Journalists.” For the first time the course, which ended Feb. 21, 2010, was based on the new book, "Digital Tools for Journalists," written by Argentine journalist Sandra Crucianelli. Already the […]
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A record 450 journalists applied for the new online course from the Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas, “Digital Media Project Development,” which got underway Monday, Feb. 22. “It is a sign that people in the most traditional fields of journalism are starting to embrace the changes that our field is going through based […]
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Colombian journalist Álvaro Sierra believes the media today are not doing an adequate job covering the illegal drug trade. Reporters often treat it as a local police problem, rather than the complex global, social and economic phenomenon it is, he said. “The media’s narrative about drugs is heavily influenced by the official narrative, which is […]
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The Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas will offer 'Electoral Coverage and Democracy,' from Feb. 1–March 7, 2010. Spanish-speaking journalists from Latin America and the Caribbean can apply online until Jan. 17. The Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas at the University of Texas at Austin will offer as part of its spring […]
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The Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas at the University of Texas at Austin offered a new Spanish-language online course "Digital Tools for Journalists" by Sandra Crucianelli. Journalists from Latin America and the Caribbean could apply until Dec. 22, and the selected group attended the course from Jan. 11 to Feb. 21, 2010. Crucianelli, […]
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The Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas has concluded its latest online course for Latin American journalists, Electoral Coverage and Democracy. The instructor, María Teresa Ronderos, is an internationally recognized Colombian journalist with a specialty in political science. The six-week course began June 27 and ended Aug. 7, 2006. The class was free of charge […]
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