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This week at TrustMedia (14/10/2011)

by Bobbie Mellor | @alisatang | Thomson Reuters Foundation
Friday, 14 October 2011 17:38 GMT

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

The week's news from the TrustMedia team.

On Wednesday morning we headed down to the auditorium for TRF and World Food Programme’s seminar on ‘Social Media for Humanitarian Change’ seminar. We were delighted with the turnout of professionals and others from NGOs, all with Blackberries, iPads and other twitter-friendly devices in hand! Highlights of the day were a heated panel discussion on the role of social media in this ‘Brave New Networked World’ (watch it here), and the presentation of a number of new social media tools.

But that wasn’t all… the seminar also marked the launch of our new community social media website, youTrust, which is now live and open to all! With youTrust, you can create ‘packages’ of multimedia and articles around any topic of your choice and contribute content to the site and livestreams on humanitarian issues. The site has already been a huge success- have a go here!

Down in out training room this week there was a ‘Writing and Reporting News’ course. Our participants came from Brazil, China, Egypt, Hong Kong, Myanmar, Paraguay, Slovakia, Uganda and Vietnam. A little further away, there was also a TRF/NORAD Financial and Business journalism course in Dakar and a Making Television News Course in Istanbul. Photos are on Facebook.

Today the winners of the annual Kurt Schork Awards were announced. The awards are in memory of Schork, an American journalist who was killed in a military ambush while on assignment for Reuters on May 24, 2000 in Sierra Leone. The awards ceremony will be hosted by Thomson Reuters Foundation in Canary Wharf on 17 November 2011.

Looking forward to next week, on Monday we have a week-long ‘Women’s and Girls’ Health and Progress Reporting’ course starting in Johannesburg. The course is the outcome of a partnership between Thomson Reuters Foundation and the GBCHealth Healthy Women, Healthy Economies initiative, you can read all about it here. Our TrustMedia programme manager will be out there and we’ll bring you lots of news and photos from the course as it happens. Also on Monday is the launch of our Egyptian Elections website, Aswat Masriya, we’ll put out all the details then!

Last of all a little mention to our friends and office companions, INSI (International News Safety Institute) who this week launched their new website, have a look here. And our brilliant content partners, Center for International Media Ethics (CIME) have launched their new research on Public Trust towards today's media. Everybody who reads news is invited to fill out their short survey.

Keep following us on Twitter @trust_media and our Facebook page for the latest news and pictures from the team here and from our courses all over the world.

 Until next week!

 TrustMedia Team  

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