On Fri, Sep 27, 2013 at 10:27 PM, Vojtěch Dostál <vojtech.dostal@centrum.cz> wrote:

Dear Laura,

 

I never really thought about having an education program on Wikinews but it just seems like a wonderful idea. I can envision a university project during a class for young journalists. Each week, one student writes a Wikinews article on what he thinks is the most important news of the week. This could be a refreshing way of recruiting new contributors to sister projects :-).

 


There is a Czech language project.  It might not be as active, but if there are some community members there who can get in touch with me, we can try to do some things like assist them in setting up the technical backend to allow their stories to be included in Google News. This broadens the potential audience.  

But it is a very good experience for potential journalists because it can provide them with opportunities to assess existing reporting for things like neutrality and accuracy.  It can also allow them to do original reporting, which Wikipedia does not allow. Any support you need that I can provide in English, I would be happy to.

Sincerely,
Laura Hale


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