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Lessons to take back home
This year I have had the opportunity to visit America as a World Press Institute Fellow. When an email this spring confirmed my selection to the program, I couldn’t believe it. But it was real. I am a journalist from Uganda, a country famous for the worst record of...
The return of partisan journalism
In my home country, Finland, the great majority of newspapers are non-affiliated and independent. Party newspapers and reporters are a curiosity. That is why I have been surprised to notice how openly partisan many American journalists are. Some of them don’t seek...
How I met the Mooch
I had a run-in with ”the Mooch” recently. I spoke to former White House adviser Anthony Scaramucci outside an event of his in Austin, Texas, and, um, it got a bit awkward. When he learned I was from South Africa, the Mooch said sarcastically that he supposed things...
Hey, where are you going with that post-truth in your hands?
To the extent that there is such a thing as objective truth, I always thought that the “fake news” trend was just an exaggerated new spin put on an old phenomenon that we used to call rumors or hoaxes, with no real new danger. Long before this WPI fellowship,...
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2020 U.S. Presidential Election Analysis and Conversation
Surrounding the much anticipated 2020 U.S. presidential election, the World Press Institute (WPI) offered a two-part webinar series on the subject. Part One In the first webinar, longtime journalist James Fallows of The Atlantic talked
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Naturally, we had to talk about the state of journalism in #NewHorizonsWPI host country, Bulgaria. Read up on our last panel of the conference here:
https://aej-bulgaria.org/en/the-dire-state-of-independent-media-in-bulgaria/
Podcasts as a tool (for audience engagement, as a revenue stream) came up a lot at the #NewHorizonsWPI Conference on 9/24 --
https://aej-bulgaria.org/en/dr-ruja-or-how-we-stopped-worrying-about-podcasts-and-embraced-them/
Check out @AEJBulgaria's write up of day 1 at #NewHorizonsWPI:
https://aej-bulgaria.org/en/the-big-questions-faced-by-media-new-horizons-in-journalism-conference-day-1/