Nieuws

Zellik - Deze week was het dan zover. De jury van de Vlaamse Scriptieprijs 2008, bestaande uit professionals uit de academische, media- en uitgeverswereld kwam op woensdagavond 12 november samen om een longlist van 10 beste auteurs te selecteren. Geen sinecure, want maar liefst 227 studenten hebben zich voor deze editie van de Vlaamse Scriptieprijs ingeschreven.

The Hague - We are a group of students studying European Studies with as specialization Communication, at The Hague University, The Netherlands. We are currently busy with a project assigned to us by the European Centre for the Vocational Training. As part of our project we are going to answer the question: How are journalists able to be influenced in order to write about publications, as well as securing coverage of initiatives and polices which may be of low news value to their audience.

BRUSSELS - During the first European Investigative Journalism Conference on Friday November 21 in Brussels, the Flemish minister-president Kris Peeters gave a speech (through his speech writer Astrid Van Parys). Here we bring the full text.

BRUSSEL - In het prestigieuze kader van de Académie royale de Belgique in Brussel werden op 25 november 2008 in aanwezigheid van een talrijk publiek de prijzen van de derde editie van ART in the MEDIA uitgereikt.

BRUSSELS - New journalistic stories using freedom of information acts as an integral and important part of the research are well on the way after conference in Brussels this weekend. 

BRUSSELS - A new digital handbook designed to help investigative journalists track corruption across borders was introduced Nov. 22 at the European Investigative Journalism Conference in Brussels. The handbook which is published by the Romanian Center for Investigative Journalism and the International Center for Journalists provides an array of new tools for investigative journalists that will help them give the public a better understanding of regional and global criminal networks.

A'DAM - Free dailies will now be included in the Dutch Press Fund support policy, according to Newspaper Innovation. Previously, only paid publications could apply for funds for special projects or research. 

FLORIDA - Journalists are facing serious problems in the print industry, but are also faced with a new opportunity--switching platforms so they can work everywhere.

KNOKKE-HEIST- Every year since 1999 Press Cartoon Belgium, or PCB, has awarded the PCB Prizes to the best press cartoons published in Belgium. On the occasion of its tenth anniversary, PCB is launching a new award, Press Cartoon Europe (PCE). Apllications have to be sent before the 4th of January 2009.