The corner of London that has become home to Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, the shame attached to drying your underwear in public in India and the lessons for South African commuters from the London experience, three of the varied topics tackled by journalists attending the foundation's summer course in 2018.
The journalists were challenged to produce a long form story reflecting some of the new skills and knowledge they had gained during the month long digital and multimedia course.
Innovation and imagination are at the heart of the annual course aimed at journalists with some experience who need to update and advance their skills and journalism.
Mobile journalism, investigative reporting, storytelling and audience engagement form the foundations of the course and in 2018 it included expanded sections on data journalism, data visualisation and verification techniques with a separate workshop on podcasting introduced for the first time.
I wanted to come everyday to class.
Gisella Rojas Rodriguez, journalist from Ecuador
Leading journalists The course enables journalists working in fast paced newsrooms time to reinforce their existing skills and learn the latest techniques vital to survive in the constantly changing media environment.
Leading experts such as mobile journalism trainer Glen Mulcahy and award winning investigative journalist Ewen Macaskill are part of the training team and Ewen mentors the journalists on their final projects.
If you miss out on one day of class you are missing out on a whole library's worth of knowledge, says Monique Mortlock, a journalist at Eye Witness News in Cape Town, South Africa.
Monique secured her place on the course like many of the other participants by winning a competition in her home country.
In 2018 journalists on the course also came from Ecuador, Oman, India, Sudan, Syria and, Kuwait.
Final Projects
Gisella Rojas Rodriguez Assanges Neighbours - a tiny corner of London on an unusual bucket list. Read article here
Monique Mortlock Lessons from London - How Cape Town could tackle its transport crisis. Read article here
Rania Haroun Your children or your home -why British women are staying in Sudan. Read article here
Waad Al Kateab I am a revolutionist - Nothing will kill me. Read article here
Bibi N S A Alkhudari Where are the women cyclists? - The pressures preventing Kuwaiti women from cycling.Read article here.
Meehika Barua Lingerie-Shaming in India - the health problems caused by modesty restrictions. Read article here
Hamda Al Balloushiya Prejudice - Why some Arab women abandon the traditional hijab when in the UK. Read article here.
Faisal Al Rawas Five things about Britain - Observations from an Omani journalist. Read article here.
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Deborah Kelly Head of Training and Communications
About: Deborah plays a key part in developing and promoting our training programmes and is our specialist on gender in media. Her recent training projects have centred on digital and mobile journalism.
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