Grahamstown is waking up. The gradual change from a sleepy student town to National Arts Festival mayhem follows a years-old tradition: the re-painting of the city centre road marks and affixing the brightly-coloured nameplates to the numerous venues. It’s that time of the year when B&B’s and shops repaint theirexterior and the lawns are put [...]
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Multimedia blogging at the National Arts Festival
Grahamstown is waking up. The gradual change from a sleepy student town to National Arts Festival mayhe
m follows a years-old tradition: the re-painting of the city centre road marks and affixing the brightly-coloured nameplates to the numerous venues. It’s that time of the year when B&B’s and shops repaint theirexterior and the lawns are put in shipshape.
For me it is time to get ready for what is now publicly known as a circus. This one does not involve tigers, elephants or horses but just a whole lot of clowns, acrobats and jugglers. Its our own media circus in the African Media Matrix building at Rhodes University.
Tips and story ideas for Guyana newspapers
It was my first time travelling through Suriname and Guyana, and to get to understand a nation starts with an understanding of its local news. For me, as someone with an above-average interest for news and journalism it was great to get a chance to feel, read and examine the most read newspapers in the [...]
It was my first time travelling through Suriname and Guyana, and to get to understand a nation starts with an understanding of its local news. For me, as someone with an above-average interest for news and journalism it was great to get a chance to feel, read and examine the most read newspapers in the Guyana’s. 
The newspapers I had a closer look at in Suriname are: De Ware Tijd, The Times of Suriname and Dagblad Suriname, in Guyana I bought Stabroek News and Kaieteur News.
Unfortunately the journalistic skills seem to still be very basic, there is a lack of investigative stories and stories are often unbalanced and not to the point. Besides some hints and tips I’ve compiled a list of story ideas, just some articles and topics that I thought are missing in the Guyanese papers. And yes, I am willing to travel back and write them all 
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Media training in Asindo-opo, Suriname
Three and a half hours on a traditional korjaal, over the Suriname river. Forest and some small villages on both sides, rapids, caymans…
We arrived in Djumu in the dark, the skilled boatsman new exactly what he was doing. I met Charles Vervuurd, the director of Apinti Television in Suriname in Bronsberg. He told me that [...]
Three and a half hours on a traditional korjaal, over the Suriname river. Forest and some small villages on both sides, rapids, caymans…
We arrived in Djumu in the dark, the skilled boatsman new exactly what he was doing. I met Charles Vervuurd, the director of Apinti Television in Suriname in Bronsberg. He told me that he has been working on getting television into the interior and has just set up a station in Djumu. Charles gave me the number of Captain Albert (capitain is similar to a chief in South Africa, he is a bit like a the major of a town) who was extremely happy to hear that I’m a media trainer. His radio reporters (radio Mai Fei) needed some help.
Students need freelance journalism lectures
Six lectures = 12 hours to teach 3th and 4th year Journalism students about becoming, being and staying a freelance journalist.
How do you set up, create and sustain a professional network? How do you pitch a story, find new clients and keep in touch?
Six lectures = 12 hours to teach 3th and 4th year Journalism students 
about becoming, being and staying a freelance journalist.
How do you set up, create and sustain a professional network? How do you pitch a story, find new clients and keep in touch?
Kick-off New Media Orientation Week
This upcoming week the first-year students of the School for Journalism in Utrecht, The Netherlands, will experience their first Orientation Week. The students have the whole week to get familiar with a certain journalistic medium, in this case new media.
This upcoming week the first-year students of the School for Journalism in Utrecht, The Netherlands, will experience their first Orientation Week. The students have the whole week to get familiar with a certain journalistic medium, in this case new media.