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Google and Knight Foundation launch online journalism course
Patricia Molina| 3 de diciembre de 2013
Ana Paula Blanco, jefe de Comunicaciones para Google en Hispanoamérica
Google and the Knight Foundation have launched an online course open and free for journalists, professors and students interested in developing journalistic projects on the web.Ana Paula Blanco, Googles head of policy communications for Latin America, while speaking with PRODU said the Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas is pioneering massive journalism training. She also said that since 2010, Google has supported the work of the foundation. We believe it imperative to train and create incentive models to encourage the production of online content for the cultural, economic and social development of Hispanic America. Were looking for a web that is more relevant every day, which is why we create and support projects like this.As part of this project, Google presented a program of scholarships for travel to the International Symposium on Online Journalism and to the Ibero-American Colloquium on Digital Journalism, to be held in Texas in the month of April 2014. The Google-Knight Center scholarship will be offered to at least six participants from Latin America and will consist of a trip to Austin, Texas, to take part in the two conferences on digital journalism that the Knight Center will organize in April 2014 she said.The spokeswoman also said that the community has given the project a good reception. Among those who have signed up are journalists, students and professors from all over Latin America. The course has more than 4,000 people enrolled, principally from Mexico, Spain, Colombia, Argentina and Peru.
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