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Entries Tagged as 'Newsroom Diary'

Work Starts On Hilton Freetown Cape Sierra Hotel

September 21st, 2011 · No Comments

Work would now start in earnest as President Ernest Koroma turned the sod for the construction of the Hilton Freetown Cape Sierra Hotel on Friday at a ceremony on the grounds of the Cape Sierra Hotel, Aberdeen.

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Tags: Economic Reporting · Newsroom Diary · Poverty

Cool Multimedia approach: See how cheating was done in 2007 Philippine polls

September 6th, 2011 · No Comments

InterAksyon.com, the Philippines newest and fastest-rising news website recently launched a special interactive microsite on the poll cheating in the  2007 Midterm elections.

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Tags: Election reporting · Newsroom Diary · Online Journalism

Fear of losing traditional occupation haunts Indian fishermen

April 14th, 2011 · No Comments

Santosh Chhetri APRIL 14, CHENNAI (INDIA) Six years after the December 2004 tsunami hit the capital of the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu, fishermen fear of losing their traditional occupation and the only source of livelihood of majority of them. More than 30,000 fishermen families were relocated after the tsunami in Chennai, which is [...]

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Renforcement des capacités des journalistes de l’Afrique de l’Ouest: La formation IIJ-GIZ de Dakar amorce sa dernière phase

March 9th, 2011 · No Comments

Démarré le lundi 28 février dernier, la formation initiée par l’Institut international de journalisme (IIJ-GIZ) se poursuit dans les locaux du Centre d’études des techniques de l’Information (CESTI) de Dakar. Ainsi, après la cérémonie d’ouverture marquée par les propos de bienvenue du Chef de projet de IIJ, Britta Scholtys et de la Directrice de CESTI, [...]

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IIJ Alumnus on Global Journalist radio show

February 28th, 2011 · No Comments

Last week, I had the opportunity to be a guest on Global Journalist, a radio, television, and internet program that brings together journalists and other experts from around the world to discuss topics in the international news.

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Tags: Newsroom Diary · Online Journalism

Fifty words bring the end of 30 years

February 11th, 2011 · No Comments

‘In the name of God the merciful, the compassionate, citizens, during these very difficult circumstances Egypt is going through, President Hosni Mubarak has decided to step down from the office of president of the republic and has charged the high council of the armed forces to administer the affairs of the country. May God help [...]

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Tags: Newsroom Diary · Online Journalism · Political reporting · Sneak In

Newsroom Blunder

January 27th, 2011 · 1 Comment

My life as a Sub-Editor was quite good. Shift-wise duty was suitable for me to continue my university studies. But from last year when I started reporting, there is a specific office time table but no break from work. For our online readers and to offer upadted information to the readers of print edition of [...]

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In search of death

January 24th, 2011 · 1 Comment

As I was feeling unwell today, I passed almost the morning and noon at my house. But I was reading reports in different sites at online. After my lunch, I received a phone call from my Chief Reporter. What he had told me was sad as information but good for news. The report of 70 [...]

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Tags: Newsroom Diary · Online Journalism

Breaking News is not really breaking

December 25th, 2010 · No Comments

In spite of my festival mood, I logged in the onlines of Bangladeshi newspapers this morning. Now it is 12 pm here in Dhaka. Nothing has really happened except the follow up report of last night’s fire incident in a factory of Dhaka. I was surprised to see the breaking news section of an website [...]

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Tags: Newsroom Diary · Online Journalism · Sneak In

Reporting on Anti-corruption

December 5th, 2010 · No Comments

I was in Bangkok last month to report on  14th International Anti-Corruption Conference, popularly known as 14IACC. The conference was held at Queen Sirikit National Convention Center, one of the biggest convention centers in Bangkok. I was among one of the nine young Asian journalists selected to cover the 14th  IACC  on different social media. Our major objective was to [...]

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Tags: Newsroom Diary · Online Journalism · Sneak In