World Press Institute

Author: Wilson Vega

2012 WPI Fellow

International Assistant Editor, EL TIEMPO
Bogota, Colombia
Website: http://www.citytv.com.co/canal/tiempo_real

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by | Nov 28, 2012 | Uncategorized

A friend (I won’t name him, but he’s a reporter and substitute anchor for bTV Bulgarian Television) wrote once in this blog: “I am convinced that some of the best articles will appear in this blog couple of months after the end of the program”. A friend (I won’t name...

Flying with myself

by | Oct 18, 2012 | Uncategorized

I left the residence with my host family and spent pretty much every minute talking to them about the-whole-nine-weeks. At the airport, I minded the extra weight in ‘Big Bird’ and carefully distributed it in my other bags, so I didn’t have to pay 75...

Personal Reflections

by | Oct 1, 2012 | Uncategorized

This going to be cheesy, corny, drippy, sugary… No apologies, you have been warned.Its real name is ‘Cloud Gate’, but people commonly refer to it as ‘The Egg’. It’s a beautiful sculpture in the middle of Millenium Park, in Chicago,...

‘They write us checks because they love us’

by | Sep 24, 2012 | Uncategorized

Well, I did it. I bought a new suitcase. It is yellow and BIG. I call it ‘Big Bird’.Of course, this blog is not about that. Is just that I bought a new suitcase so I can take with me brochures, magazines and ‘stuff’ I have collected along this amazing six weeks. I...

Conventional Politics

by | Sep 9, 2012 | Uncategorized

The climate in Charlotte could not have been better. Wait.. It IS true that the heat was humid and sticky, and that at any moment it rained, skies unleashed lightning, which I can tell you can be easily compared with the much colder Bogotá. To avoid confusion, it...