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June 29, 2010 - Internews, through its East Media House, carried out its third “Prajahanda” program on radio broadcast journalism for Ampara District Sinhala-medium schools students. From 25 to 28 of June, 50 students from GCEOL And GCEAL received training and were divided in to two batches, which each produced two-day live radio broadcasts. The students first received an introduction [...]
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June 25, 2010 - Internews commenced its MRE ‘Road Show’ in Vavuniya North in the Grama Niladiri divisions of Kulaivisuddan and Olumadu, and Nedunkerny North. Adults and children from the re-settled villages of Arasankulam, Velankulam, Olumadu, Odaiveli, Nawarady, 6th mile post and sandalkulam keenly participated at the interactive sessions of the MRE Road Show (funded by UNICEF) which focuses on raising awareness of [...]
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June 22, 2010 - Internews, through its partner organization Perambara, organized a training in Matara on new media. Thirteen young journalists learned web basics, email, blogging, uploading pictures to flikr, and using social networking sites like twitter. The training was conducted using a hands on, live, and interactive training methodology. On the first day, trainees created email accounts on Gmail, [...]
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June 16, 2010 - Internews and Perambara carried out the latest in a series of journalist cross productions in the eastern Batticaloa District. From June 14 and 15, sixteen participants including 12 from Batticaloa, three from Colombo and one from Matara took part in the production that concentrated on stories from Pillumalai and Vaharai, two areas about 60 [...]
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June 13, 2010 - Problems and issues faced by the plantation community of Sri Lanka were brought to focus and a platform laid for the victims and relevant authorities to meet and discuss ways to bring about solutions. This was made possible through the Netrikkan (third eye) program organized by the Power Foundation in collaboration with Internews. The programme was [...]
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