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This week at TrustMedia (06/10/2011)

by Bobbie Mellor | @alisatang | Thomson Reuters Foundation
Friday, 7 October 2011 19:08 GMT

* Any views expressed in this opinion piece are those of the author and not of Thomson Reuters Foundation.

This week has been a successful one for Thomson Reuters Foundation (TRF). On Sunday, TRF received the “Best Annual Report” Award at the Digital Communications Awards in Berlin. You can watch the video report here. TRF was also nominated for or the “Best Corporate website” Award for the AlertNet website and for the “Online Campaigns by Institutions” Award for “The five worst countries for a woman to live in” poll. 

Looking forward to next week, we’re gearing up for the TRF and World Food Programme (WFP) seminar; “Turbo-charge your campaign: Social Media for Humanitarian Change” on Wednesday 12th October. It’s free a one-day event held here at Thomson Reuters in London, open to all. We’ll be bringing together humanitarian aid and social media professionals, showcasing innovative media tools and discuss how this new ‘networked world’ has transformed the way humanitarian organizations conduct their campaigns.

The morning session will include a panel discussion on how social media can generate humanitarian change, and the afternoon will be made up of workshops on creating a campaign with impact. To reserve places, just visit:  http://sm4change.eventbrite.com/.

Aside from that, we’re organising lots of training courses before the end of the year and getting ready to print our Parliamentary Reporting Handbooks in Lebanon and Georgia. Our Egyptian Elections website, Aswat-Masriya launches in just one week, and this week we’ve been trying to sneak a peek at the fantastic our multimedia team are producing some fantastic graphics and video for the site which we’re really excited to see.

Next Monday we have a Writing and Reporting News course starting here in London. Participants are from: Brazil, China, Egypt, Hong Kong, Myanmar, Paraguay, Slovakia, Uganda and Vietnam. We look forward to getting to know all the journalists coming to London, and they’ll be blogging about their experiences of the course all week.

We have four courses with open deadlines at the moment; Writing Financial and Business News in London, Making Television News in Nairobi, Kenya, Rural Poverty Reporting, Dhaka, Bangladesh and Reporting Crises and Disasters in Hong Kong.

That’s all for this week, keep following us via twitter @Trust_Media for all the latest updates from the team and media news from all over the world. 

Until next week,

TrustMedia Team

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