The Senior International Journalism Fellowship, run by the International Centre for Journalists (ICFJ), is currently receiving applications from outstanding journalists as the fellowship opens in Africa specializing in health and development journalism. The Senior Knight Journalism Fellow will play a leading role in overseeing ICFJ’s African journalism initiative beginning in …

Inside Government, a United Kingdom group, will bring stakeholders together on March 4, 2015 at Congress Centre in Central London for an interactive strategy discussion to, among other things, review the government’s vision for safeguarding the UK’s internet eco-system. The other objective of the meeting is to provide participants with …

The International Press Institute (IPI) will be using the occasion of its 65th anniversary to host its 2015 World Congress and General Assembly in Yangon, Myanmar from March 27 to 29, 2015. IPI is holding the World congress titled “On the Path to a Free Media” in collaboration with a …

Mongolia will play host to the fifth annual Freedom Online Conference (FOC) scheduled to be held in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, on May 4 and 5, 2015. Mongolia is the current Freedom Online Coalition Chair. Previously held by the Netherlands, Kenya, Tunisia, and most recently Estonia, the chairmanship of the Freedom Online …

The World Wide Web Foundation has released the 2014-15 edition of the Web Index. This report is the world’s first measurement of the World Wide Web’s contribution to social, economic and political progress across 86 countries. The Web Index takes a look at the Web in 2014 and warns that …

On November 2, 2014, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) with its UN and civil society partners marked the first international ‘Day to End Impunity for Crimes against Journalists’. It was marked to draw the attention of the world to the alarming and rising number of killing …

The Google Journalism Fellowship programme is receiving applications from students interested in journalism and technology. It offers them the opportunity to spend the summer working at relevant organizations in a bid to gain valuable experience and make lifelong contacts and friends. The Fellowship was created to help groom the next …

Rebecca Stromeyer, the Chief Executive Officer of Integrated Communications, Worldwide Events (ICWE) and Founder of eLearning Africa, and Dr Debretsion Gebremichael, the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Communication and Information Technology of Ethiopia have announced that the annual eLearning Africa conference will return to Ethiopia, the country of its inauguration, for …

The Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism in the United Kingdom is seeking applications for its Journalism Fellowship Programme for international journalists funded by the Thomson Reuters Foundation. Each year about 25 journalists from around the world study in Oxford on fellowships of either three, six or nine months covering …

An infographic design submitted by young journalists Gabriel Orihuela, Elizabeth Ortiz, and graphic designer José Juan González Morales from Mexico has won the UNESCO and Visual.ly infographic design contest for its clear depiction of the dangers journalists face and the detrimental effects of impunity. To commemorate the first International Day to …