Gene Policinski, executive director of the Freedom Forum First Amendment Center, offered advice for those aspiring journos.
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With his entrepreneurial flair, Neuharth put the Freedom Forum on the map with Newseum, an interactive museum to show visitors how news is covered.
He also founded The Freedom Forum, a foundation dedicated to free press and free speech that holds journalism conferences, offers fellowships and provides training.
With his entrepreneurial flair, Mr. Neuharth put the Freedom Forum on the map with Newseum, an interactive museum to show visitors how news is covered.
Jim Duff, president and chief executive officer of the Freedom Forum, said, "Al will be remembered for many trailblazing achievements in the newspaper business, but one of his most enduring legacies will be his devotion to educating and training new journalists, " according to the post on the Newseum website.
"Each network doesn't have to have its own man or woman on the scene at every river that overflows its banks, every border where there's a skirmish, every town up and down the coast battening down for a hurricane, " Hewitt said Thursday at the Frank Gannett Lecture series at the Freedom Forum.
"Internet-enabled technology, that which networks us together, has done a huge amount for humanity in general, " Scott Carpenter, the principal at Google Ideas, said at the Oslo Freedom Forum earlier this year, according to a live blog.
Besides imparting basic skills to rural journalists, the workshops also provided a useful forum for the discussion of press freedom and other professional issues and their possible solutions.
It is hard to imagine, say, the Freedom Party becoming a ready forum for such ideas.
During the 4th annual UN Alliance of Civilizations Forum, specialists from UNESCO took part in the discussions on freedom of expression, where the focus was on journalism education and youth communication, and also on the role of education in sustainable development, which explored the relevance of education to sustainable development as well as the promotion of cultural diversity and intercultural understanding.
While the proposed changes are a step in the right direction, they don't go far enough, said Nic Dawes, media freedom chairman of the South African National Editors' Forum.
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