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UPIU in Zimbabwe: One student finds success
UPIU student reporter Marko Phiri, winner of our Freelance Reporting Contest, shares about his UPI.com byline, his experience working with a UPIU mentor, and what’s next on his plate. Continue reading
Posted in Interviews, Journalism contest, students, UPIU users
Tagged farming, green, journalism, UPIU, urban, Zimbabwe
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Meet our reporting grant winner!
Elena Roda, an Italian journalism student, won UPIU’s first $1,000 reporting grant. She shares about her project and how she got into journalism. Continue reading
Posted in Journalism contest, students, UPIU Special Projects
Tagged Elena Roda, Golan Heights, reporting grant, UPI, UPIU
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What do our workshops look like?
What do our workshops look like? We stream via Skype directly into your classroom! Continue reading
Earn $200 and in-depth mentoring!
Hey, UPIU! It’s time for another Freelance Reporting Contest! Here’s the scoop: Pitch a solid story (text, video, audio, photo – whatever your specialty!) on a topic we choose, and you could win intensive mentoring from one of UPIU’s professional journalists, a UPI.com byline, and a $200 paycheck. Continue reading
Posted in Journalism contest
Tagged contest, freelance, journalism, mentoring, reporting, students, upi.com, UPIU
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Getting the right information: How to FOIA
Tips on Freedom of Information Act requests from UPIU’s mentoring team of professional journalists. Continue reading
A Day in the Life: Reporting in Nigeria
UPIU student Dayo Ibitoye talks about what it’s like to be a reporter in Nigeria, and why he’s hopeful that his country will emerge as a good place to practice journalism despite recent violence against people in the profession. Continue reading
Posted in A day in the life, UPIU users
Tagged Committee to Protect Journalists, Dayo Ibitoye, journalism, Nigeria, UPIU
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Want good audio? Get sounds that paint a picture
UPIU Mentor Phil Rees shares tips on gathering ambient sound to paint a picture for audio reports. Continue reading
Posted in Multimedia, Tips
Tagged ambient, BBC, broadcast, journalism, Phil Rees, radio, sound, UPIU
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Want to make a difference? Try investigative journalism
UPIU Senior Mentor Richard Wagner shares how investigative journalism took down a host of North Carolina officials. Continue reading
Posted in Investigative Journalism, Tips
Tagged investigative, journalism, North Carolina, Richard Wagner, UPIU
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Student journos in Iraqi Kurdistan? Yes, thanks to The Tiziano Project
The Tiziano Project has held journalism workshops in Iraq since 2008. Director Jon Vidar shares the highs and lows of training student journos in a post-conflict zone. Continue reading
Posted in International Journalism
Tagged Iraq, Jon Vidar, journalism, Kurdistan, Tiziano Project, training, UPIU
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Reporting from Afghanistan: “Land mines are everywhere.”
War photography is a dangerous gig, so we were surprised to hear that a University of Massachusetts at Amherst student is GlobalPost’s photographer in Afghanistan this summer. Ben Brody has a bit more experience than the average college journo, though. He is a graduate of the New England School of Photography, and was a combat photographer for the U.S. military before applying the G. I. Bill toward a degree at UMass. Continue reading
