The Daily IIJ

The maiden International Institute for Journalism (IIJ) of InWent advanced course in Multimedia and Online Journalism ended barely two months ago. It was an opportunity for alumni who have been on the basic online course to sharpen their skills. I (we) loved it. Some enjoyed more than others because they met their colleagues once again [...]

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For how long would Africa continue to be called “the dark continent?” As long as senseless and childish criminals in security uniforms would forever think that the only way to come to power is through bloodbath.
Just this weekend, a group of bandits tried to topple the government of Guinea-Bissau when they attacked the residence of [...]

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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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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 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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