The Daily IIJ

Just a couple of weeks back I wrote an article that afterwards made me feel sick to the stomach. It was a round up of a grisly attack on the procession of the slain Pakistani politician, Benazir Bhutto, who was targeted in a bomb blast upon arrival in Karachi a year ago.
More than 150 innocent people [...]

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A power sharing deal to resolve Zimbabwe’s crisis faces stillbirth as the major poliical parties failed to reach a compromise on Monday.
Read more on Conrad Dube’s blog: http://mwanawashe.wordpress.com
 

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Google, Microsoft and Yahoo and a group of human rights and public interest organizations plan to introduce Wednesday a global code of conduct that they say will better protect online free speech and privacy against government intrusion, the New York Times reports.
A wide range of organizations have participated in the effort but it is doubtful [...]

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By Kieran Cooke
A journalist usually has very little time to put together a story. Deadlines draw ever closer, editors become anxious and in the midst of the rush you’re trying to make sense of what might be complex issues – and endeavouring to explain them in as clear and simple a way as possible. Journalists [...]

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The mood in the country right now is clear, Nigerians including me are very happy with the Federal Government of Nigeria’s decision to withdraw from next year’s FIFA U-17 World Cup. The only people that are sad right now are members of the Local Organising Committee (LOC) whom many feel should be held responsible for [...]

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Press freedom in Zimbabwe is a very serious situation, Reporters Without Borders concluded in their 2007 country report. The government of Robert Mugabe has shut down independent newspapers. Radio signals from outside the country have been jammed. Internet is slow and not reliable. Inflation is skyrocketing.
Conrad Dube, a Zimbabwean journalist, a participant at the just [...]

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THE power sharing agreement on the 15 of September between Zimbabwe’s main political parties was one of the historic moments in the history of this devastated nation. While many people became consumed in the euphoria, there wasn’t time to meditate upon the contents of the deal to see if there were “deadlocks” that reveal a [...]

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Participants of the IIJ advanced course in multimedia and online journalism created this videoclip streaming live to the internet from the Web2.0 Expo in Berlin using a Nokia N73 with a bluetooth microphone and GPRS data connection. They interviewed Måns Adler, founder Jonas Vig of the live-broadcasting service Bambuser, a competitor of Qik.com. The reporter [...]

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Magnificent Herta BSC! It was two minutes before the end of the game, and the replacement Gojko Kacar scored the winning goal on Saturday match against Stuttgart. It was a victory that led the capital team to the fourth place in the Bundesliga table.
Hertha Berlin won 2 for1 against the southern team of Stuttgart, and [...]

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There can be no better term to describe Thomas Knüwer, business journalist from the Handelsblatt daily.
I am here in Berlin for the advanced training programme in Multimedia and Online Journalism, a first of its kind classroom at the IIJ and Mr.Knüwer was our guest lecturer in the first week of the 3-week training.

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