Fun and Games: reporting the Olympics from the inside

Usain Bolt at the 2012 London Olympics (photo: Nick Webb via Wikimedia Commons)

One Olympics volunteer describes how he did his bit for London working as a ‘flash quote reporter’ at the Games Read more »

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Pits n Pots print

Print edition of local website Pits n Pots boosts citizen journalism

This month The Journalism Foundation distributed 50,000 copies of a special print edition of local news website Pits n Pots to houses in Stoke-on-Trent – roughly a copy for every other house in the city Read more »

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Charlie Burgess

What makes a local story? Or what makes a story local?

There is a big difference between local news and national news. Charlie Burgess, Managing Editor of The Journalism Foundation, gives advice on knowing how to recognise and write a good local story Read more »

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Police line just broken on Avenue Bourguiba

Reporting in a fledgling democracy: our first project begins in Tunisia

This week The Journalism Foundation’s first project gets off the ground in Tunis where we are running two two-day courses for Tunisian journalists with the broad title of “Reporting in a Democracy” Read more »

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TJU

Hunger to learn how to report in a democracy

The president of the Tunisian journalists’ union recognises the need for change. The Journalism Foundation is working to help further their skills in reporting public life in a democracy Read more »

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