How is it to live in Finland?
Immigration has been recently a popular topic in the media. However, immigrants themselves rarely get to take part in these discussions. Here Giti Mari and other immigrant women tell their stories.
Community radio problems in Africa
Freedom issues of community radios in Africa. Interview of Ms. Elva Gomeze de Sibande from Namibia Polytechnic. Watch the video.
Journalists should see the people behind the facts
“Media is a very powerful tool, but a very deadly weapon”, warns Weade Kobbah-Wureh, the professor of Liberia University.
Real problems are left untold
This story covers the idea of development journalism. What does it mean? “Maybe we should abandon the whole term”, suggest Dr. Teppo Eskelinen. Read it from articles!
A Rural Reporter – P. Sainath
P. Sainath is an award winning Indian journalist focusing on social problems, rural affairs, poverty and the aftermaths of globalization in India. Click here to read his introduction.
P. Sainath video interview
"We have one fulltime correspondent covering golf in India. But we have no full time agriculture or labour correspondent. It means we don't eant to talk to 75 percent of the population". Watch the interview in video section.
Insider or outsider?
Reportage about immigration in UK by Maria Virkkula, journalism student in University of Jyväskylä, Finland, who is currently studying as an exhange student in England.
A Neapolitan parasite plans to become an economic migrant
"The southern Italy has been hit hard by la crisa, the finance crisis. Those unemployed who can, move up north. I think we have to move there too. That means leaving our families behind."
Loneliness is a big social problem
Rosalie Ingman is 101 –years old lady who lives alone in Turku. She wanted to tell her story, because she suffers from loneliness. Red Crosses Be a friend to grandmother -campaign was a great thing to her, because she wanted to have some friend to talk to.
Kulmakivi’s first online course starts 8.3.2010
Online course "Journalism for social change" launches 8.3.2010 in Finland and Ghana. Meet the teachers in video section!
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Loneliness is a big social problem
More than a million people live alone in Finland. Statistics shows that it is 11 000 people more than year earlier, tells...
How is it to live in Finland?
The stories of three immigrant women Immigration has been recently a popular topic in the media. However, immigrants themselves...
Insider or outsider?
I currently study in UK and that makes me a part of migrants in UK. In several discussions people have somehow brought up...
A Neapolitan parasite plans to become an economic migrant
The finance crisis is hitting hard a 34 year old accountant Gennaro Rossi from Naples, Italy. ”A year ago I was employed...
Women in the media industry in Ghana
Over the years, gender notions have been a way of defining the roles of men and women in Ghanaian society and more especially...
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