Same basic schedule, new city. About 30 journalists here as well. We had some Internet connectivity problems, but people seemed to be very patient about that.
Two of the U.S. embassy employees told me their home costs for DSL Internet are very reasonable — between $3 and $7 per month. The price varies depending on the [...]
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Journalist training, week 2, day 1
Posted in journalism, training, vietnam on Monday, June 9, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Journalism training, 1:31 slideshow
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This is a link to the Soundslides that the HCM City participants made to give to me on the last day:
Online Journalism for Vietnamese Writers
It makes me appear very interactive (ha ha). I was very touched by this — no other journalists whom I have trained ever gave me a slideshow!
Journalist training, Day 1
Posted in journalism, training, vietnam on Monday, June 2, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Today I had about 30 Vietnamese journalists in a training session at the Saigon Times building in Saigon. I had been told we would have an interpreter, but it turns out that everyone in the workshop has enough English language fluency — so no interpreter. It’s a good thing I always prepare too much [...]





