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Published: 21 Jun 2023 398 views
The Gabo Foundation, with the support of the Google News Initiative, convenes the workshop 'Navigate' change: leadership and management of digital native media, directed by Gumersindo Lafuente. The activity will be carried out in person in Buenos Aires (Argentina), from Tuesday, September 5 to Friday, September 8, 2023, as part of the Red Anttena project, focused on strengthening the skills of people responsible for digital native media in Latin America.
Leading a native digital media means 'navigating a sea' of changes and uncertainties, which includes learning, failures and, in many cases, loneliness.
From this context, this workshop focuses on the training and accompaniment of journalistic teams responsible for native digital media in Latin America, together with whom various themes and approaches that are revolutionizing the field of journalism will be explored.
Participants will be able to strengthen their capacities to design and implement strategies to face crises in the media, change course in difficult times and move forward, identify possibilities for growth and consolidation in the market, as well as clarify challenges and opportunities for digital natives facing artificial intelligence.
Likewise, techniques related to precision journalism and information verification, data journalism, new ways of telling stories, slow and experimental journalism will be addressed. All this combined with a practical component of the workshop that will consist of visiting digital media newsrooms that have become benchmarks in their respective specialties, in order to learn first-hand how they are applying innovative approaches to tell stories and face current challenges. of digital journalism in dialogue with those responsible.
As part of the Red Anttena program, those who are selected for the workshop will also receive mentoring from people who are part of the Gabo Foundation's network of experts, who will accompany them in monitoring the implementation of development projects for their media. .
Mission Foster active and better-informed citizens by training and encouraging journalists, and promoting the ethical and creative use of the power to tell and share stories, inspired by the legacy of Gabriel García Márquez and his workshop method. Vision In 2023, the Gabo Foundation will be a solid, innovative and sustainable institution, globally recognized for contributing to better journalism in Ibero-American countries and for its territorial impact, in cultural incidence and educational innovation with children and youth, in Cartagena and the Colombian Caribbean . ... continue reading
| Application Deadline | 13 Jul 2023 |
| Country to study | Colombia |
| Type | Training |
| Sponsor | Gabo Foundation |
| Gender | Men and Women |
Thanks to the alliance with the Google News Initiative, this workshop has the following support:
Persons responsible for journalistic teams of native digital informative and independent media, who are based in Latin America and develop their work on any digital platform, can apply to this call.
Applications from people linked to media outlets that have been in operation for between 1 and 10 years, and who are interested in strengthening or fine-tuning their growth and consolidation strategies at the editorial level, will be preferred.
For this workshop, 16 people who meet the aforementioned profile will be selected.
For the selection of the participants the following criteria will be taken into account:
If you are interested in applying for this workshop, you must fill out the respective registration form before Thursday, July 13, 2023 at 11:59 pm (Colombia time).
In addition, you must attach the following:
For more details visit: Gabo Foundation website.