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It's been a hectic week at TrustMedia, so this will be a quick post.
TrustMedia intern Bobbie is off to Cairo next week to help with Aswat Masriya as the Egyptian elections begin on Monday, 28 November! The Arabic language website provides Egyptians with vital news and information about the upcoming elections in Egypt, and is run by a team of local journalists in Cairo.
An English language version of the website is in the works and should be available soon, so stay tuned!
Program Coordinator Will has been in Bangladesh all week for the IFAD Rural Poverty Reporting course in Dhaka. Other courses this week were the NORAD Advanced Financial Reporting course in Johannesburg, and the Covering Extractive Industries course in Beirut.
Next week's courses include Making TV News in Nairobi and Good Governance Reporting here in London.
There are some great new blog posts to check out in our blogs section on the climate talks coming up in Durban, the Financial Reporting course in Johannesburg, and the first entry in a series of spotlight features on Thomson Reuters Foundation alumni.
Here are our upcoming courses with open deadlines:
Reportaje sobre Pobreza Rural - Bucaramanga, Colombia, 12-14 December 2011
Deadline: 30 November
Business News and Tracking Down Corruption – Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
4 Course Dates:
23 Jan 2012 - 27 Jan 2012 | Deadline: 02 Jan 2012
06 Feb 2012 - 10 Feb 2012 | Deadline: 09 Jan 2012
12 Mar 2012 - 16 Mar 2012 | Deadline: 13 Feb 2012
30 Apr 2012 - 04 May 2012 | Deadline: 02 Apr 2012
And don't forget, applications for the Reuters Journalism Trainee Programme 2012 and the Reuters Summer 2012 Global Journalism Internships are now open!
Keep following us on twitter and Facebook 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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