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My Experience at the IPI World Congress

Whether you are a journalist with 40 years of experience under your belt, or a young journalist taking the first steps on your career path, there could have been no better place to get to know all you want about journalists and journalism than the International Press Institute World Congress held this year in Amman, Jordan.

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Poynter training brings the values of interactive story-telling to Egypt as advertising’s “Third Way”

Photos by Bill Mitchell


On most days, the talk at the downtown Cairo offices of the Egypt Media Development Program is all about story-telling and the ways that multimedia and social media can enhance journalism. There was an important twist on that chatter during two busy days at EMDP last month: Instead of journalism, the focus was on a new form of advertising.

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IPI News Innovation Contest winner runner-up in top UK media awards; AFP Foundation's 'Africa Check' pioneers fact-checking in Africa

Africa's first fact-checking website, Africa Check, which was launched with the support of the IPI News Innovation Challenge in 2012, was on May 7 named runner-up in the Digital Media section of the One World Media awards, the UK's most prestigious awards for international journalism.

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Trials and tribulations of a local media start-up in Egypt

www.mandaraonline.com finally launched!
In February, months of work came to fruition on  as we officially kicked off the local media portal of long-marginalised Upper Egypt...

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Crowdsourcing Ushers in a New Era of African Journalism

There are few things less appealing than reams of paperwork and massive digital files. Sometimes, though, hidden within the piles of data, there is a story that needs to be told.

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