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Entries from February 2009

‘Asia must go shopping’

February 27th, 2009 · No Comments

If economic recovery must come soon, the world will get a relieve and cut short the current global recession if the Asians go shopping. A former economic news editor of the London-based Financial Times, now trainer of journalists in economic and financial reporting, Graham Watts has observed. The freelance journalist with over 20 years experience [...]

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Tags: Economic Reporting · Sneak In

Monrovia: US Embassy Guards Protest Low Salary

February 27th, 2009 · No Comments

    A group of at least 50 security guards of the American-run security service, Inter-con, on Wednesday abandoned their posts to protest ‘low salary and lack of benefits’.   The aggrieved security guards involved in the protest action are assigned at the premises of United Nations Mission in Liberia UNMIL).   The placards carrying security [...]

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Eisbären boys steal the show on the ice

February 27th, 2009 · No Comments

EISBAREN Vs ADLER- the YouTube video by Heru, a visiting journalist from Indonesia. On Wednesday evening the 15  foreign journalists attending the Multimedia and Online Journalism Course at the International Institute for Journalism were treated to a show of a lifetime. They witnessed live, a battle on the ice…an experience that drew sweet memories from [...]

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Abhisit Threw Rohingyas to Asean

February 25th, 2009 · No Comments

By saying Myanmar minority ethnic of Rohingyas is not Thai problem but regional matter, Prime Minister Thailand Abhisit Vejjajiva asked all Asean countries to join and handle the problem. For past two years, Rohingyas has been flowing to other South East Asia countries as refugees including to  Thailand and Indonesia. This year, Rohingyas in Thai [...]

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Tags: Reporting on Asean

Day Two: Mail and Guardian

February 25th, 2009 · No Comments

Today I had a discussion with print journalists and some online guys notably, Carlos Henriques the Online General Manager. I wanted to find out how all the guys are taking the issue of convergence, which was proposed and is being discussed at higher levels to take off here at the M&G.

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Tags: Online Journalism

Political Will Holds Monetary Union’s Success

February 25th, 2009 · No Comments

There must be a strong political will from the Economic Community of West African States for the monetary union (MU) to succeed, central bank advisor, Rebily David Asante said Tuesday in Accra, Ghana.

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Tags: Political reporting

Hammering The Cause For ‘Aid Effectiveness’

February 24th, 2009 · No Comments

Recently, Her Excellency President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf was in the Ghanaian Capital, Accra, to participate in a forum that brought together Development Cooperation Ministers from five donor countries including Norway, Sweden, The Netherlands, Japan and the United States to discuss aid effectiveness in post-conflict and fragile state context. The Liberia Reconstruction and Development Committee was [...]

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Faceless Gangsterism In Broad Day Light

February 24th, 2009 · No Comments

History has a way of spotlighting even the most irrelevant and insignificant proponents in human history. Surely, such story about mankind must be told, but no matter how elements of evil and good come into play, we are bound to live with this reality. When tyranny seized our national center stage; flagrantly ran a criminal [...]

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Political deal offers Zimbabwe media another chance

February 24th, 2009 · No Comments

The formation of an inclusive government by Zimbabwe’s three main political parties gives another chance for the country to build a formidable media if the powers that be can allow a new constitution that guarantees press freedom.

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Tags: Media Ethics · Media Landscapes

Day One: Mail and Guardian

February 24th, 2009 · No Comments

I am here (South Africa) on attachment  with the Mail and Guardian. I am working with their online team in a two week intensive programme that will see me “stealing” ideas as to how their workflow is structured, their CMS, the mobile technology and the general management system.

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Tags: Online Journalism