The Daily IIJ

On August 18, 2010, I gave a presentation at the IIJ’s Summer Academy (actually, the earliest After Dinner Lecture ever, at 2 p.m. ). It took a while to get the slides ready for publication, but here they are. The topic of the presentation is how social media can be used in conflict situations. Are [...]

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A fellow journalist and trainer (and very good friend of mine) thought of the IIJ alumni – although he doesn’t teach at the IIJ; now isn’t that nice? He pointed me to the fact that Investigative journalists from Russia (and the former U.S.S.R), Eastern Europe, The Balkans, Caucasus, Middle East, Asia, Africa and Latin America [...]

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IIJ journalists paid a visit to Hamburger Abendblatt today. Check out the Qik videos of the session, done by Bilal from Pakistan.

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Mobile reporting can be a frustrating experience. The worst part is lack of connectivity. G3 is just not fast enough to make uploading video files and even audio files a worthwhile experience, and when travelling the signal is too unstable to do anything other than checking email (with a client, no web mail) and Twittering.

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Meet the project developer of Focus Online’s newest project, nachrichten.de (not yet online). (Will exchange this video for Flash version as soon as it’s available and I’m online again.) Click To Play

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While being guests at the offices of focus.de in Munich, executive editor Jochen Wegner gave us a tour of their video studio. Team member Elvis streamed it to Qik for us. Have a look. And don’t forget to check out our live Twitter coverage of the visits. This morning’s Twitter correspondent was Abhi from India. [...]

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Participants of the IIJ’s Online and Multimedia course II 2009 visit a farm in Bavaria and take the pitchfork into their own hands to feed those cows… It was a fantastic visit. We learned a lot about cheese making, milk production, farm subsidies, 16-hour workdays during harvest season and that this farm has been passed [...]

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Today was takeoff: 15 journalists from 11 countries, myself (Matthias) and assistant Carola departed from Berlin at 12.58 hrs. on ICE 109 to Munich. It’s the start to our eight day study tour of Germany. We’ll pay visits to eight of Germany’s most interesting online news outlets: focus.de, Chip.de, jetzt.de, Deutsche Welle, KStA  Online, DerWesten, [...]

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On October 19, U.S.-based Nigerian blogger and journalist Jonathan Elendu of Elendu Reportswas arrested by the Nigerian State Security Services (SSS) upon his arrival at Abuja airport. It was some days before the SSS announced that Elendu had been charged, first with money laundering and then sedition. read on

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