By Amie Williams | Executive Director
Here at Global Girl, we have been busy with our local and international projects! We are gearing up for our summer Los Angeles-based New Media Academy and News Bureau and developing our schedule for the Middle East Program. We will be filling you in on what is in store for the summer and our future plans for the Middle East Project this coming year!
Global Girl Media Los Angeles New Media Training Academy
In conjunction with the Skirball Cultural Center, our Los Angeles Global Girl Media Academy and News Bureau will be training 10-15 young women July 5-29th, 2011. The program will begin with classes on new media journalism and video production basics. The young women will then focus on creating and producing news stories for the internet. These trainings will be part of an international exhibition at the Skirball Cultural Center in October, focused on women and girls’ rights globally.
We are very excited that the young women participating in our training program will be from outstanding organizations throughout Los Angeles, including the Santa Monica Boys and Girls Club, the Salesian Boys and Girls Club, A Placed Called Home and the Miguel Contreras Learning Complex.
Middle East Program
Due to the situation in the Middle East and the status of our funding, we will be postponing our Middle East Program to 2012.
We are partnering with the Global Press Institute (GPI) to apply for the GOOGLE IPI Award. GPI is an established international NGO that uses journalism as a development tool in order to create strong, professional female reporters that can increase access to critical global issues from a female perspective.
Together, GGM and GPI are planning to develop a journalism core curriculum and create sustainability programs in the Middle East region (Lebanon and Iraqi Kurdistan). We are planning to merge GGM’s teenage video training with GPI’s already established print and blog training for adult women. We believe this will create a strong program of ethics-based journalism, which will encourage and empower participating young women to produce local stories about issues that affect them most.
Global Girl Media South Africa New Media Training
The Global Girl Academy in South Africa will run from June 25-July 16. We received a PEPFAR (The U.S. President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief) grant to work with 10 HIV-positive young women in Johannesburg, ages 16-25. Each team of GlobalGirl Media reporters will produce print and internet news pieces with the goal of improving and enhancing more healthy, complex images of HIV-positive women and girls in new media journalism.
Filming with Cell Phones!
We are looking forward to utilizing the latest filming technology, cell phones! With HD capabilities, the cell phones will be a great tool for filming content out in the field since they are so lightweight and user friendly!
New Consultants and Staff!
We want to welcome Carly Wasserman, a recent graduate of Univ. of Santa Barbara, (Sociology and Feminist Studies) as our new Office Assistant in Los Angeles.
Also, Alissa Richardson, Professor of Media Studies at Morgan State University and recent recipient of a Knight Fellowship there, is joining our South African training team this summer to head up the MOJO Journalism—mobile journalism.
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