Each year, aspiring journalists and media professionals throughout the world enroll in journalism schools, or “J-schools,” in the United States. Many U.S. colleges and universities even cover tuition and other costs through financial need- and merit-based scholarships.
Readers and listeners all over the world enjoyed special insight into the U.S. presidential election as a result of the International Center for Journalists' (ICFJ) Elections 2008 Visiting Journalists Program, which brought 48 journalists from 46 countries to the U.S. to cover the historic campaign and election.
On November 5, 2008, the day after the United States elected Democratic Senator Barack Obama to be its 44th president, newspapers around the world dedicated front-page space to the historic news.
I've decided to showcase innovative U.S. elections coverage, because I think that some of the projects currently being offered at news organizations here are spectacular and may help inform the work you're doing in your office.
When violence broke out in Kenya following the nation's highly disputed December 2007 presidential election, concerned Kenyan blogger and activist Ory Okolloh began blogging exhaustively about the situation on the ground and highlighting the concerns and hopes of her people.
6/27/08by Thomas Winship, chairman of the International Center for Journalists and former editor of The Boston Globe
From an article by Thomas Winship, chairman of the International Center for Journalists and former editor of The Boston Globe. Written for Editor & Publisher.
