New internet guide for journalists in developing countries

Wednesday January 25th 2006, 11:30 am
Filed under: Newspapers, Online news

Unesco collaborated with the Thomson Foundation and Commonwealth Broadcasting Association to produce a handbook for journalists of developing countries on the use of internet for journalistic purposes. The ‘Net for Journalists’, which is written by a journalist and trainer Martin Huckerby, is a resource (with a printed manual and a CD) designed for both print and broadcast journalists and journalism students in developing countries around the globe. The accompanying CD contains some software, other extra resources and lesson plans for trainers. The handbook aims to provide journalists, especially from developing countries, with some practical skills in exploring and exploiting the internet for day-to-day journalistic assignments. It teaches how to search the net more effectively and efficiently, not only for facts and figures, but also for images, audio and video. An important feature of the handbook is that it does not only tell where and how to get the information one needs, but also how to evaluate and verify the information gathered. (UNESCO,January 25, 2006)

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