Open to journalists in Storyboarding Digital Security Mobile Journalism Documentary Making Budgeting Data Journalism Paper Trailing Verification Techniques Uncovering Corruption All expenses paid - hotel, meals, airfare Antigua & Barbuda Barbados Dominica Guyana Grenada St. Lucia St. Kitts & Nevis St. Vincent & the Grenadines Suriname Trinidad & Tobago.
Via this 4-day virtual workshop series, journalists across the Caribbean region will develop a better understanding of the implications and impacts of climate change on health and wellbeing. Experts will explore key themes via interactives sessions as we examine the societal impacts and the human interest perspectives of covering climate and health.
Please email completed forms to mediainstitutecaribbean(at)gmail.com.
The media has a pivotal role in unearthing issue of corruption as it raises public awareness and can impact policy change in the interest of a better society and a stronger democracy.
The Media Institute of the Caribbean (MIC) will be hosting its 2022 instalment of our Investigative Journalism Fellowship which commences on 4th January 2022. There will be eight virtual sessions which will culminate into an opportunity to work on a cross-border collaboration for the Caribbean Investigative Journalism Network (www.cijn.org)
This is an intensive programme which will be done virtually due to the current COVID-19 environment. The fellowship will include sessions that are relevant to the theme of “Uncovering Corruption in the Caribbean”. Participants are selected via an application process where they complete their submission forms online, in addition to supplying copies of their past work in the area of investigative reporting. A selection panel then reviews the application to select thirty to forty of the Caribbean region’s best journalists to be trained in different techniques of investigative reporting with regards to illicit financial flows and corruption.
The Global South is severely affected by climate change and without an increase in awareness, sensitivity and understanding of the impact, the population of the Caribbean nations, its neighbours and stakeholders will not take steps to prepare and correct the inequities that can exist and be debilitating.
This 4-day workshop will address the major issues and how to report on them so that regional journalists who attend can begin reporting on issues of Climate Justice by giving insight and in some ways advocating for change.
The Media Institute of the Caribbean is proud to partner with the UNESCO Cluster Office in the Caribbean to commemorate 28th September as the International Day for Universal Access to Information (IDUAI).
Various UN agencies in the English-speaking Caribbean have described the region as being “data poor” with scarce official data and information which is available on a timely basis. The experiences of journalists employed in the conduct of investigative reporting as part of the Caribbean Investigative Journalism Network (CIJN) have served to highlight both deficiencies – official “data poverty” and an inability to optimize use of already scarce data. It is our intention, in that context, to focus on building professional capacity with the context of the current crisis of Covid19 while providing advocacy support for the more efficient delivery of official data and information on the subject.
In partnership with the High Commission of Canada to Trinidad and Tobago, we invite you to participate in our two-day workshop which explores emerging issues arising from the presence of migrants, the quality of reporting on migration issues and the impact of migration on women and girls.
15th March to 16th March | 9am to 12pm | Open to journalists from Trinidad & Tobago.
The media has a pivotal role in unearthing issue of corruption as it raises public awareness and can impact policy change in the interest of a better society and a stronger democracy.
The Media Institute of the Caribbean (MIC) will be hosting its 2022 instalment of our Investigative Journalism Fellowship which commences on 4th January 2022. There will be eight virtual sessions which will culminate into an opportunity to work on a cross-border collaboration for the Caribbean Investigative Journalism Network (www.cijn.org).
The Media Institute of the Caribbean is pleased to present this series of virtual training with the support of Internews. The series is specifically for journalists and media practitioners in Barbados and Dominica.
The programme will focus on developing the public information gaps based on the Barbados and Dominica Information Ecosystem Assessments - Information Saves Lives which was compiled by Internews.
Presenters include some of the leading personalities in journalism regionally and internationally including Jim Clancy, Femi Oke, Wesley Gibbings, Julian Rogers, Craig Silverman, David Ho, Sarah Marshall, Lane DeGregory and others.
We look forward to your participation and we hope that these sessions will encourage you to do deep-dives into the area.
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The Media Institute of the Caribbean is pleased to announce that we are continuing coverage of Covid in the Caribbean via our partnership with the UNESCO Cluster Office of the Caribbean, Headquartered in Jamaica. We are launching our three-part Webinar Series 'Reporting on Covid in the Caribbean'.
This comes on the heels of our soon to be published Covid in the Caribbean page on www.cijn.org. A series of news stories and investigative reports from the Caribbean region on the Covid pandemic will be posted on this site.
As we continue to encourage our media practitioners to cover the pandemic in a way that highlights the significant issues, we encourage you to register for our Reporting on Covid Webinar Series. Attached is the flyer with all the registration links and further details.
Bios and other relevant information will be posted on our website www.mediainstituteofthecaribbean.com and you can go there for details. Some of the best experts on this subject area will be our presenters for the series.
We look forward to your participation and we hope that these sessions will encourage you to do deep-dives into the area.
An initiative of the UNESCO Cluster Office of the Caribbean. #AccessToInfo #RightToKnow
Recognizing the significance of access to information, the 74th UN General Assembly proclaimed 28 September as the International Day for Universal Access to Information (IDUAI) at the UN level in October 2019. The day had been proclaimed by the UNESCO General Conference in 2015, following the adoption of the 38 C/Resolution 57 declaring 28 September of every year as International Day for Universal Access to Information (IDUAI).
IDUAI 2020 will be focus on to the right to information in times of crisis and on the advantages of having constitutional, statutory and/or policy guarantees for public access to information to save lives, build trust and help the formulation of sustainable policies through and beyond the COVID-19 crisis.
UNESCO and its intergovernmental programs - the International Programme for Development of Communication and the Information for All Programmes - provide a platform and frame for all the stakeholders to participate in international discussions on policy and guidelines in the area of access to information. Both programs also enable positive environment for ATI to flourish through the development of projects aimed to strengthen open science, multilingualism, ICTs for disabled and marginalized, and media and information literacy.
This initiative of the Media Institute of the Caribbean (MIC) will seek to review the current status of Access To Information and Freedom of Information models in the Caribbean region, lack of proper legislation and repercussions of such, as well as examine plausible solutions to the solving the issue.
Now more than ever, the Covid pandemic has defined the necessity for access to information at a time when the sustainability of nations, the well-being of people and the focus on humanity requires cooperation, urgent attention and truth.
