Refugee Journalists

The first issue of The Refugee newsletter has been published by refugee youth as part of FilmAid’s Participatory Video Project in Dadaab Refugee Camp, Kenya. While FilmAid's main focus is empowering people in need through film-making, its objective with this newsletter is to help refugee youth improve their writing and reporting skills to build capacity for future film writing.

To learn how to set up your own refugee newspaper (or other reporting medium), review this training module, Setting Up Media in Exile, which addresses "getting to know the local laws, setting out the editorial proposition, building and training the right team, understanding the audience, distribution, building networks, fund raising and managing finances." (Note: The same author also wrote Becoming a Journalist in Exile.)

For information on journalists who flee persecution, read Journalists in Exile 2010 from the Committee to Protect Journalists (June 2010).

[Picture credit: FilmAid's participatory video project in Dadaab]

Tagged Publications and Websites.