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Data journalism handbook launched

One of the highlights in this year’s International Journalism Festival in Perugia, Italy is the launch of the Data Journalism handbook. Wish I could join but luckily, social media is there to make us take a peek…

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Inverted Pyramid and beyond

I haven’t been writing a lot lately because of the Online Journalism class I followed. The six-week online training is a project of the Radio Nederland Training Centre where I also took my Broadcast Journalism training in 2005. This training is quite intensive, we had to put up a blog to publish the assignments. Here’s [...]

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Multimedia Journalism is the future

Multimedia Journalist DJ Clark led the International Multimedia Journalism master class during the Avond van de Buitenlandjournalistiek (Evening of Foreign Journalism) on November 29, 2011 at the Pakhuis de Zwijger in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

The International Multimedia Journalism master class is one of the six master classes offered during the day.

Each master class was attended by about 20 journalists.

The evening was sold-out to 200 journalists.

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Journalism and New Media: friends or foes?

“New media disseminates information faster than a speeding daily.” There is much talk about journalism and new media either working for or against each other. Many professional journalists say that new media is merely a manner of delivering the message. This therefore, is not journalism. But some argue the fact that digital age has opened [...]

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Blogging, writing, or blogwriting?

“A rose by any other name would smell just as sweet.” I don’t write as much now as I did before. I would like to blame it on the fact that I don’t have a job where I should be writing regularly. When you’re a reporter, a writer or a columnist, it is your job [...]

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Telecommuting, something for me?

I’ve just found a new subject to research about: telecommuting. Or in simple words — working from home, working where you want to. Since I moved in the Netherlands, I have been looking for opportunities to work as a journalist, or as a writer, researcher, proofreader and editor. With the many facets of journalism — [...]

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When you’re a Journalist in Nederland…

My life has been one great big joke, a dance that’s walked, a song that’s spoke, I laugh so hard I almost choke when I think about myself. – Maya Angelou Language is the business of journalists. Without substantive knowledge of a language in which the journalist works with, any story can just be considered [...]

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Taking Chances

A journalist is always a journalist. Many are called but only a few are chosen. These are only some lines that a former professor in the university I studied in used to tell us journalism students. Sometimes you don’t really think about it. But there’s always a time in your life that it hits you [...]

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