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| The International Media Center has many activities designed to aid professionals in journalism, public relations and advertising. Seminars, workshops and research projects, often tailored for a specific news organization or agency, are offered around the year. |
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Professional Support for Cuba’s Independent Journalists Under a USAID grant that began in 1999, the IMC has been training the independent journalists, few of whom have had an previous training in journalism. They are former secretaries, economists, More... |
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Paraguay: Improving Journalists’ Understanding of Criminal Procedures During this four-year USAID project– 2000-04 –the IMC held 37 workshops for some 200 individual journalists in Asunción and four interior cities. The project soon expanded beyond the original More... |
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El Salvador: Improving Public Information Dissemination Policy, Practice and Operator Skills Because of public opposition to a new criminal code, the IMC was asked by USAID in 1998 to work with the justice sector to help cabinet ministers, judges and prosecutors be better prepared to deal More... |
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Nicaragua: News media participation in anti-corruption activities Funded by the Chamorro Foundation and the Trust of the Americas of the Organization of American States, the IMC in the summer of 2004 held a series of workshops in Managua on investigative reporting More... |
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Radio Martí The IMC made an in-depth analysis of the journalistic content of Radio Marti as part of the station’s efforts to provide better news programming for listeners in Cuba. It then organized a series of More... |
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Where do people in Cuba get their news? The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation funded a project under which the IMC arranged for interviews with recently arrived Cubans who were asked that question. Click on the following links to hear More... |
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Other projects The IMC held a series of workshops at the university for Haitian journalists selected by the American Embassy in Port au Prince; on behalf of Cisco Systems, the IMC held a series of workshops in the More... |
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McCormick Tribune Foundation Freedom of the Press Project This project ran 1998-2000 and involved the investigation by the IMC of infringements of press freedom in Latin America and the posting of subsequent articles on the Pulso del periodismo Web More... |





Projects