Bilingual Grassroots Journalism Training Program

Anne Harvester — Fri, 12 Aug 2011 09:33:20 +0000

Journalism and Civil Resistance is the 2010 school theme. Instructors include internationally respected community organizers and leaders Mercedes Osuna of Mexico, Oscar Olivera of Bolivia, Telesur’s Lourdes Zuazo from Venezuela, Celeo Alvarez Casildo of Honduras and many others. The School is impressive and needs your help.

My Word is My Weapon says this bilingual grassroots journalism training program needs equipment donations. The non-profit organization needs a few things in particular:

* Video Cameras. Any Mini-DV or DV camera, or Flip Cam. (HD cameras can also be put to good use.)
* Laptops. Especially Macintosh laptops in working order, from the G4, G5, MacBook or MacBook Pro series. PCs are also needed.
* Digital Cameras. Any digital camera in working order is needed.
* Tripods. Any tripod for video cameras, in working order.
* External Hard Drives. Macintosh compatible external hard drive of 50 GBs or more, that is no more than four years old, and with a Firewire or USB 2.0 port, is needed.

The Fund will be happy to provide you with a letter that documents the value of your donation, for tax purposes.

“Latin America today lives an age of hope with leaders and projects that have bet on a different path than that which for centuries despaired so many millions of anonymous souls via the front pages of newspapers,” wrote Maylin Alonso Chiong recently in support of the program. “This is the moment to change history.”

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Reasons To Be A Freelance Journalist

admin — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 02:23:35 +0000

There are many good reasons to become a freelance journalist and writer, however, the ones selected for this article are of particular importance for anybody who is seriously considering this vocation.You can choose the type of article you want to write. This is most important if you have subjects that you like, have considerable first-hand experience to offer, or simply enjoy researching and writing about, because your finished work is likely to be excellent. You can select where and when to do your writing. You may prefer the solace of your private study late at night, a deckchair beside your swimming pool on a sunny afternoon, or with the kids in front of the television first thing in the morning. Wherever and whenever you produce your best work is your choice every day for the rest of your life. You can determine the style of your articles. Writers are often at there best when writing in the idiom of their choice; whether this is a grumpy, negative attitude towards a subject, an informative and studious approach packed with facts and details, or a humorous approach that looks at the lighter side of every topic. Your preferred style of writing is one that you can refine until you can write that way on almost every subject.

You decide on the depth of your articles and the amount of information they will contain. Many writers enjoy research, and can spend hours wallowing amid search engines and mountains of articles, facts, images, and other data on the subject matter. Naturally, this then requires further hours in sifting through all the stuff saved on your hard drive, and preparing your notes and summary before you even start writing. The other end of the information spectrum is the article that contains niche information on a subject that the writer examines from every angle; it becomes more of an opinion piece, rather than a definitive work. You can select your ideal from either end of this range or anywhere in between, and once you have your perfect level, it is better to stick with it.You can even select the media where you want your work published. Many writers, especially the new freelancer, are only too pleased to be published and paid for their efforts, while others have definite ideas of where they wish to see their work. If you have one or two subjects that you can write about from increasing strength and with authority, you are more able to select your media’right down to defining the actual newspapers or magazines where you will submit your work.

When your writing has power, depth, and authority, you can quickly become a writer that editors turn to for a specific article. You can actually become a ”name”, somebody that people refer to for the authoritative opinion, decision, or article on a given subject. Naturally, this requires considerable knowledge, experience, and research but is a goal that is attainable within any journalistic niche. You can become a freelance writer and journalist at any age, because your readers enjoy good articles and editors commission and pay for articles that their readers want. There are positive arguments for both young and old freelance journalists, because young people bring a fresh new look at subjects that may have become old and tired, while the older person supplies a wealth of knowledge and experience honed by years of burned fingers from trying the wrong way! You can sell your articles over and over again. Most freelance journalists and writers tend to retain ownership of the copyright to their work, which enables them to syndicate it worldwide.

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