Editor’s Note: SPJ Region 3’s summer intern Isaiah Singleton is working in Panama as a student journalist along with Savannah State University Department of Journalism and Mass Communication’s aboard program this early June. Singleton will share his views and insights of his experience as a journalist in Panama. By Isaiah Singleton, SPJ Region 3 summer intern, Savannah…
Editor’s Note: The Society of Professional Journalists has members all over the globe. As reported by many non-profit organizations like Reporters Without Borders and others, many professional journalists face threats, violence and arrests when they are investigating and reporting the news throughout the world. Many have been jailed and others have been killed. By reading…
Editor’s Note: SizingUpTheSouth.com is providing our readers contributions from international journalists from all over the globe. While many of international journalists’ issues are different than what the U.S. journalism community may be facing, you might also see some circumstances that are alarmingly similar. Read how our international counterparts in journalism work and struggle for press…
By Muhammad Ittefaq, SPJ International student and contributor to SizingUpTheSouth.com. According to a recently European study, 2294 journalists have been killed world wide, including 191 women, between the years 2000 – 2016. Journalists are looking for serious answers on how we can defend and protect the journalism community as violence peaks against journalists in Europe…
By Muhammad Ittefaq, SPJ International student and contributor to SizingUpTheSouth.com Traveling has always given me great exposure to the world. I have traveled more than ten countries so far during my student life, but the most recent has been the best one. The first international conference I have attended in September was SPJ’s Excellence in…
ASIAN JOURNALISM NETWORK — Pakistani journalistic community struggling to support each other. News gets life threatening messages by a criminal gang. Mustafa left with no option other than to stop working as a professional journalist. Mustafa expressed his frustration, “Professionally, it was strange that I stopped working but I was frustrated and lived in stress for…
Editor’s note: Muhammad Ittefaq has been asked to share what workshops he will be attending at the EIJ17 conference in California. SPJ is pleased he will be traveling thousands of miles to attend this annual event. His article explains why he has selected particular workshops and what he hopes to take back home with him…