The Daily IIJ

Living in Hanoi for nearly 20 years, I have never witnessed anything worse than the flood in my capital city last week. It made not only me, but many Hanoians seriously shocked. I myself and my whole family became victims of that flood.

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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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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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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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The second week (Oct 13-17) of the advanced course in multimedia and online journalism course provided another exciting and new experience for participants as we were ushered into the world of video and the web.

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The German government’s rescue package for the country’s financial system may total about 500 billion euros.
Guarantees for lending between banks will certainly be in the range of 200 billion to 250 billion euros. The overall rescue package may be about the size of 500 billion euros.
The government may loosen accounting rules to give financial institutions [...]

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I would stare at pictures of course participants from yesteryears at the IIJ corridor and wonder, actually fear, that soon I too would be joining them on the wall. A wall which people would pass by without thinking for a moment who those smiling faces were or where they came from or what happened to [...]

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I had my first experience with planning and scripting for a podcast, last week.
It was also my first hands on experience working with Audacity. What a wonderful experience it was. Once again Joachim Vogele was up to the task, sitting besides me to share with me his experience. There was Kat also, old time buddy [...]

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It’s been a while since i have been back home and actually this is my first contribution to this blog. I am not much of a writer when it comes to human issues because my focus has been financial reporting for a while now so I guess i will not feel ok without writing about [...]

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If you asked me last week about beat boxing –the creation of sounds using the mouth- I would have told you it is not a strange concept to me. I’ve seen it on TV and I didn’t find it attractive or interesting because I believed beat boxers used more of technical support when performing on [...]

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