The Daily IIJ

A frail looking old man is playing on the keyboard of his people’s emotions. This octogenarian is holding an entire country to ransom. He has turned the entire sovereign State’s constitution upside down. His source of joy is to see his people wailing. Nothing is working in this country that was once described as a [...]

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photo: Marc Nozell, CC by 2.0
The entire continent of Africa is in an ecstatic state following the landslide victory of Barack Obama as the first black president of USA. This video shows euphoric reactions of people in Ghana, Congo DR, Ivory Coast and Kenya after hearing Barack Obama won. Kenyans in the Illinois senator’s ancestral homeland [...]

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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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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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by Frencie L. Carreon
 (Published in Zamboanga Today on 15 September 2008; posted in http://www.zambotoday.com and http://southernphilippines.blogspot.com)
 The two-week journalism course that I recently completed in Jakarta is one of those challenging and definitely great learning episodes.  Today’s feature sums up the experience, and brushes aside questions on where I had been, and perhaps speculations on alleged [...]

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 by Frencie L. Carreon
(Published in Zamboanga Today, 30 August 2008.)
JAKARTA—When a Filipino journalist joins a small circle of colleagues in the profession coming from Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam, Thailand, Brunei Darussalam, Indonesia, and Singapore, one finds in bonding moments, notwithstanding differences, commonalities which I believe should not be taken for granted.

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The last check anyone in Berlin should make in the morning before stepping out of the house is to be sure there is the train ticket in the wallet.

 The Troublesome Wallet
This is a memorable story of “I’ve got mine!” A tale of having one’s ticket and yet not possessing it! So, I am  being [...]

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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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You will be forgiven if upon entering the building housing the newspaper taz, you for a moment think you missed the directions. Welcoming us at taz is an open canteen where clients have the opportunity to promote the already financially struggling paper by buying some drinks, souvenirs or internet services. But on proceeding beyond a [...]

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The first day of the last week of our Summer Academy started with a presentation on the question “Is tabloid journalism still good journalism?” by Mr. Jochen Gaugele, political editor of BILD am SONNTAG (The Sunday paper of BILD). We were very curious to know more about the work of this paper, because during our [...]

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