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…
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 — [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]




