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Ethiopia New Media Training

by David | Jul 1, 2011 | Digital Migration, journalism, new media, newspaper crisis, Online Video, Video

The clash of ancient and modern is never more stark than in these developing nations I’ve been in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, for the last week, training the local journalists and government information officers (aka PR flacks) on how best to take advantage of the...

Tbilisi Journalist Training: Graduation Day

by David | Jul 6, 2010 | Digital Migration, journalism, new media, Online Video

Tbilisi Journalist Graduation, originally uploaded by Wordyeti. These are the journalists from the smaller cities & towns outside of Tbilisi, Georgia. They’re all grinning happily, because they’ve managed to survive my intense one-week course, where I...

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