Categoría: Corresponsales

  • Bye, bye, foreign correspondents

      Annenberg School of Communicaton and Berkman Center for Internet and Society organised in April 2008 a joint forum about participatory media and democracy: Media Re:Public. One of the panels was devoted to the future of journalism; there, a topic gained unexpected attention: do foreign correspondencies have any future in the current fast changing media […]

  • Through the eyes of a photojournalist

    How is it to work as a photojournalist? Have you ever thought how it feels to take close shots of high public figures while they make a speech? Gilles Vidal is a French journalist that has gained fame through his panoreportages: panoramic images/videos that allow viewers to virtually place themselves behind Gilles’ eyes in order […]

  • «El periodismo en lo global» (Segovia, 22-23 may, 2008)

      Spain has a set of international journalists highly qualified for assignments abroad. If there were any doubts, most recent wars highlighted their professionalism and courage. Some of them (many, always too many) even lost their lives in avoidable conflicts.   However, there are not many congresses devoted to international journalism in Spanish schools of […]

  • Cliches

    One of the most widespread European beliefs regarding United States is the illiteracy of its people. It strikes me, especially when shown in a country (Spain) which has its own periodic share of educative humiliation in the way of Pisa Reports. The following video is quite old, but still interesting. It was filmed in a CNN style […]

  • Informando sobre colores minoritarios

    Con las corrientes migratorias internacionales, la revolución digital y la de los transportes, el mundo ya no está compartimentado de manera tajante en países, o en todo caso la noción «país» está mucho más diluída que hace décadas. Por lo tanto, los periodistas internacionales deben prepararse para una cobertura transnacional y para un campo de […]