The Daily IIJ

The old saying that good news does not sell and bad news sells has led journalists to justify why they mainly cover conflicts without offering any remedy to conflicting sides. Does a photo journalist have the duty to rescue a burning man when covering riots? Is it the role of the media to help conflicting [...]

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‘Gender issues? Oh, you mean women’s issues right?’ This was the reaction from most of my male colleagues when we were discussing gender issues in the media yesterday. And their expressions bore a mixture of boredom and tolerance, as if they were readying themselves for a male-bashing exercise by a band of feminist journalists.

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It seems that bloggers always looking for bloggers. It happened for me when I heard about Stefen Niggemeier, a famous media journalist and blogger. I was very interested to meet a successful German blogger. His blog is called BILDblog, it observes and takes the role of a watchdog in regard to the largest newspaper in [...]

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One of the many challenges in journalism is to get the correct and reliable details of the story one is covering. Journalists are sometimes scared to cover certain topics which according to them are complicated. But to Susanne Koelbl, getting to do a story you were always afraid of might at the end of the [...]

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The world celebrated the 90th birthday of the iconic former South African leader Nelson Mandela, and Germany is expecting to receive the American presidential candidate Barack Obama who is expected to give a speech on German soil. Our visit to the Bundespressekonferenz could not have come at a better time when the eyes of the [...]

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Sometimes, we hate choices. Its not just about the decision-making process but whether or not we make the right one. It was a similar situation ten days back when we had three two-day workshops to choose from.

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“German forces in Afghanistan are not directly involved in fighting against militants,” said Christian Thiels, a young journalist in ARD office during our visit to the organisation. “Germans do not want to take part in any war, and that was the reason that we did not support the war against Iraq, which was a very good [...]

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A journalist must be neutral, that is one of the first things a student willing to become a professional journalist must know. And this assertion seems to be universally shared by all professional journalists. But more and more, the concept of neutrality tends to be relativized and its definition differs from one journalist to another.

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Imagine two tall stone towers and five rings of the Olympic symbol strung together in front of a giant stadium bowl. This is the grand Olympic Stadium in Berlin. Walking around it is like revisiting old demons and creating new memories in German history.

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After receiving so much tutorial notes, exercises and practical tips of covering or unearthing ’complex’ stories the participants of this year’s Summer Academy have a week in Berlin, visiting different media organizations to learn and ask questions on how they operate. Reporters Without Borders (RSF) was our first stop. RSF is a media rights organization [...]

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