Letter from the Director,
Rosental C. Alves
Thank you for visiting the trilingual website of the Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas, dedicated to journalists of Latin America and the Caribbean. Note that from any page, you can switch languages between English, Spanish and Portuguese.
Our staff, which includes a team of UT-Austin students, works hard to keep the site updated with Knight Center activities and the latest news about journalism in the Americas. The site contains a variety of resources for journalists, including many useful links and a searchable archive of journalism news from the Americas, published here since 2003.
You are cordially invited to apply to our online distance-learning courses. Our multimedia journalism-training program incorporates a unique Knight Center methodology. We offer courses online in Spanish, Portuguese, and English.
I encourage you to subscribe to our weekly email newsletter, which features journalism news headlines from throughout the region. In addition to the headlines, the newsletter will keep you abreast of the Center's activities.
We would be delighted to hear from you. Please send us your comments to knightcenter@austin.utexas.edu.
Enjoy our site, bookmark it as a favorite, and come back soon.
Sincerely,
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 | The Knight Center for Journalism at the University of Texas at Austin was created in August 2002 as a professional training and outreach program for journalists in Latin America and the Caribbean.
The Center's main objective is to help journalists in the hemisphere to develop self-sustaining training programs that will raise the ethical and professional levels of journalism, thereby contributing to the freedom of press and democracy in the hemisphere.
The Knight Center was founded by Professor Rosental Alves, with a $2 million grant from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation.
During our first two years, we focused our work on Brazil, Mexico, Argentina, and Peru. In our third year, we began working with journalists in the Caribbean and Colombia.
We conduct all our training activities in partnership with independent journalist organizations that are either forming with our assistance, or already in existence but seeking to grow. Every Knight Center collaboration is designed to help these organizations to develop the track record, strategies, and technical assistance needed to become long-term, self-sustaining actors in their respective countries.
Our four main activities are:
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To help journalists create and/or strengthen organizations to elevate journalism standards and defend press freedom in the hemisphere.
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To organize seminars and workshops in person and on the Web to increase the skills of reporters, editors, and photojournalists.
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To maintain a trilingual Web site (in English, Portuguese, and Spanish) that monitors daily journalism news in the Americas and offers useful resources for journalists.
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To organize the Austin Forum on Journalism in the Americas - an annual conference and a permanent network of organizations dedicated to journalism training and press freedom in Latin America and the Caribbean.
The Knight Center for Journalism believes that journalism training and professionalism in Latin America are essential to advance press freedom and democracy. For more information, contact Program Manager Jennifer Potter-Miller, jpottermiller@austin.utexas.edu.
Updated August 17, 2006 |
