Short Courses of the Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas Knight Center Completes First Online Course in Portuguese The Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas at the University of Texas at Austin has completed its first online course in Portuguese, Computer-Assisted Reporting. The 13 journalists who concluded the course are from nine cities in nine Brazilian states. The five-week course, which ended May 14, 2004, was taught by journalist José Roberto Toledo, director of Computer-Assisted Reporting (CAR) for the Brazilian Association for Investigative Journalism, and editor of Jornal do Terra. The participants learned the basics of CAR by working with practical assignments and examples. Upon completing the course, they received a certificate from the Knight Center for Journalism. The class was conducted entirely through the Internet, using multimedia resources to assist with the discussions and exercises. This is the third online course offered by the Knight Center as part of its distance learning project. The previous two training courses were taught in English, and the next will be conducted in Spanish. The Knight Center will offer the CAR course in Portuguese later again this year and is developing other courses in each of the three languages. Added Aug 30, 16:45, 2004 Ecuador's media bill reaches lawmakers amid press freedom concerns Nov 23 Producing more multimedia stories for a news site: El Salvador's "ElFaro" (The Lighthouse) Nov 23 News Corp. may dump Google for Microsoft Nov 23 Web seminar Nov. 25 covers new digital tools for journalists Nov 23 Mexican police reporter vanishes after reporting arrest of crime boss Nov 20 Ahead of protests, Nicaragua's opposition media report new threats and harassment Nov 20 Cuban blogger Yoani Sánchez grabs Washington's attention Nov 20 Guatemala's president creates radio program to correct "wrong information" Nov 20 Argentina eliminates jail time for defamation Nov 20 CPJ honors five top journalists and seeks new support for expanded work Nov 20 IAPA lauds Argentine court ruling that returns journalist's killer to prison Nov 19 Opposition TV president says Chávez wants him in jail Nov 19 Visit our blog for latest news on journalism in the Americas Take a Tour! Look inside an online course and learn about how you can enroll in our distance learning program. Read More Search Knight Center News You can search our entire database by entering a keyword. Subscribe to Newsletter Receive our weekly newsletter about journalism in the Americas. Choose your language: English   Español   Português    Please enter your e-mail address. Read more about the Knight Center Newsletter.

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