http://www.thomsonfoundation.org The Thomson Foundation Tue, 09 Mar 2010 10:50:32 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en [caption id="attachment_1651" align="aligncenter" width="545" caption="A Burmese journalist, right, receives video training, filmed by the makers of Burma VJ. Director Anders Ostergaard is pictured second from right, with cameraman Simon Plum"][/caption] The work of the Thomson Foundation in training on the ground lay behind the internationally-acclaimed documentary nominated for an Oscar award. The ... http://www.thomsonfoundation.org/2010/03/burma-vj-secret-training-mission-behind-film-blockbuster/ The Thomson Foundation is to run a new course aimed at tomorrow’s media leaders. The flagship Future Leaders course will see some of today’s most successful media executives from print and broadcast working with course participants from several countries to focus on the challenges and opportunities ahead. Executives featuring on the course ... http://www.thomsonfoundation.org/2010/01/new-courses-for-2010-from-the-thomson-foundation/ With just three weeks to go before launch, Thomson Foundation consultant CHARLES McGHEE arrived in Abuja to support the birth of a new daily newspaper     Thomson assignments are challenging at the best of times, but when they are carried out at short notice against seemingly impossible deadlines they become ... http://www.thomsonfoundation.org/2009/12/thomson-helps-launch-new-nigerian-daily-newspaper/ Families living in stilted homes around the lagoons of Lagos may be on the front line of climate change, but persuading Nigerian journalists that the UN Copenhagen conference can make a real difference is a tough sell.   Leading environment journalist and Thomson Foundation consultant TIM HIRSCH reports     Emerging from ... http://www.thomsonfoundation.org/2009/12/why-copenhagens-un-climate-change-summit-seems-so-far-away-from-the-realities-of-life-in-nigeria/   Please leave your tribute to, or share a memory of, Russell Lyne by completing the comments form on this page   The Thomson Foundation regrets to announce that Russell Lyne, former Head of Regional Development, has died aged 65. Russell first worked for the Foundation as a trainer in 1995, later joining full ... http://www.thomsonfoundation.org/2009/11/russell-lyne-an-inspiration-to-the-world-of-journalism/ Thomson Foundation CEO Janet Boston pays a personal tribute to Russell Lyne, a cornerstone of the Foundation's international success, who died recently Like many of you, I won’t forget the first time I met Russell Lyne ... except I didn’t. It was over the phone and he was chuckling about sending ... http://www.thomsonfoundation.org/2009/11/the-passion-for-training-and-telling-stories-that-lay-behind-the-magic-of-russell-lyne/ Yana Siedova, from Ukrainian magazine Focus, met journalists from across the former Soviet Union at a special conference in Berlin timed to coincide with the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. She was among 80 journalists who gathered in the German capital to explore the changing face of ... http://www.thomsonfoundation.org/2009/11/berlin-wall-anniversary-puts-focus-on-journalism/ MARY PRICE reports on her assignment to convince journalists in Nigeria that it's time to change their views on climate change The man on the plane is adamant: “You will never make people in Nigeria care about climate change.” We are flying to Kano - a city of sheep, goats, horses and ... http://www.thomsonfoundation.org/2009/11/climate-change-first-convince-the-man-on-the-nigerian-donkey/ As the world's media descends on Berlin this weekend to mark the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, the Thomson Foundation is in the German capital to welcome 80 of the brightest and best journalists from the former Soviet Union During the four-day conference, hosted by the Foundation's ... http://www.thomsonfoundation.org/2009/11/european-journalists-united-at-berlin-wall-anniversary/ By Helen Scott & Martin Huckerby   As the flip chart filled with an ever-increasing list of dangers, threats and resource issues, we began to realise just how tough is to be a journalist in the Niger Delta. Martin Huckerby and I were running a five-day course for journalists in Lagos. And ... http://www.thomsonfoundation.org/2009/09/nigerian-journalists-learn-the-power-of-people/