Infostrada Sports internship opportunity...

Infostrada Sports is inviting applications of interest from your Communications, Journalism and Media students to become involved with our World Masters Games Event News Service team, through participating in our Biography Research Project internship.

A number of outstanding interns from the Biography Research Project will make the Event News Service Team, with the shortlist to be announced in the lead up to the 2009 World Masters Games.

The Event News Service is a Games-time operation aimed at assisting accredited media in covering the Games by providing a balanced, unbiased information service that includes news reports, press conference highlights and flash quotes.

Event News Service reporters will get to sharpen their basic reporting skills, learn to write breaking news, practice finding story angles under deadline pressure and get hands-on experience at interviewing athletes.

We are looking for interns who will receive training, and then during Gamestime will receive daily briefings and full support as they gather news items.

For the Games-time roles, all interns will need to have their own laptop and Infostrada Sports will provide expenses for those who can use their own car. All communication costs and meals will be provided. Unfortunately, no travel to Sydney or accommodation costs can be met due to the tight budgetary constraints of the project.

To find out how you can get involved with the Biography Research project, please submit a current resume in addition to a cover letter to Internship Coordinator, Hairul Sukaime at hairul.sukaime@infostradasports.com

North Korean sentence

The International Federation of Journalists has called for the immediate release of two American journalists who were sentenced to 12 years hard labour by a North Korean court this week, for allegedly crossing the Chinese-North Korean border. Euna Lee and Laura Ling’s four day trial was held in secret and there is no avenue for appeal.

See http://tinyurl.com/lso2sr.

Courtesy of Australia's Media, Entertainment and Arts Alliance.

Twitter revolution and more...

Twitter revolution
Iranian protesters have been able to bypass a strict media blackout and provide the world with first person accounts of what is happening in the aftermath of the country’s disputed presidential election, thanks to microblogging site Twitter.

See http://tinyurl.com/nm9c44

World of risk
Start-up news organisations are increasingly sending journalists to the world’s hot spots in a bid to tell new stories in new ways, but one of the risks is “that reporters lack the backing of large established news organisations.” writes Brian Stelter in the New York Times.

Full story: http://tinyurl.com/lr4s5t

Courtesy of Australia's Media, Entertainment and Arts Alliance.

How are journalists using Twitter in Australia?

MediaShift’s Julie Posetti spoke to 25 of the journalists she follows to find out firsthand.

See: http://tinyurl.com/q8ljes

Courtesy of Australia's Media, Entertainment and Arts Alliance.

Watergate

It’s an admission the Guardian describes as “among the most excruciating in newspaper history”. Two former New York Times journalists have revealed that they knew of the Watergate scandal before their Washington Post rivals but dropped the ball and missed the scoop of the century.

Read more: http://tinyurl.com/p99j24

Courtesy of Australia's Media, Entertainment and Arts Alliance.

Film Festival

Hi all,
Refugee film festival later this month. Interesting and important stories to be told and heard. Flyer below.