When we wake up each morning, I guess we all look up to a fresh new day, fresh smell, fresh energy, fresh plans and fresh ideas. Likewise fresh news is like food for thought to the hungry. A
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The People & Planet International Photo Competition 2012 – open to amateur photographers around the world – Deadline April 22!
March 24, 2012 No Comment 140 ViewsDescription The People & Planet International Photography Competition aims to select 53 photos to be published in the 2013 People & Planet: Social Justice & Environment Diary and
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URN News Digest Vol 19: When Learning is Such an Illusion
March 11, 2012 No Comment 130 ViewsThis week saw a fair inflow of somewhat good pitches and efforts here and there trying to get the other story. But one thing that struck me most, and for me what has been the greatest lessons of my
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URN News Digest Vol 018: Of Kent Mangoes and “ill fated” Vehicles
March 4, 2012 2 Comments 198 ViewsIt’s yet another beautiful week, and I can’t wait to see someone pull a Pulitzer Award Story through the website. Looking at the past week, I saw two fair attempts at Pulitzer and just as I
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URN News Digest Vol No 17: A day Inside the News Clinic
February 25, 2012 No Comment 153 ViewsI went to the editorial clinic recently; for a new routine checkup that I think is crucial as my news life matures. When the News doctor took my blood pressure, he saw my newslife was low on
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URN News Digest Vol 15: – Writing News ain’t a Game of Assembling Words
February 12, 2012 No Comment 146 ViewsI have been feeling a little odd lately, kind of an out of sync feeling that engrosses an editor with high expectations. I don’t like the out of sync feeling, but here I am waiting and waiting.
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Photography Competition for Ugandan PhotoJournalists
January 17, 2012 No Comment 196 ViewsHere we go URN Photographers The Foreign Correspondents’ Association of Uganda (FCAU) has announced plans to run a photography competition for Ugandan photojournalists in 2012. The winners,
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URN News Digest Vol No. 012: – Photography versus Pornography of the Dead
January 8, 2012 2 Comments 222 Views“A picture is worth a thousand words” goes an old adage and a good picture does not require any accompanying story. It allows the reader to delve into their own world of imagination, draw out a
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URN News Digest Vol No. 011: Over, Over and Over
January 8, 2012 1 Comment 136 ViewsOver, Over, Over… On a high note this was a busy news week, not the striking and enterprising stories but some crime, disagreements, political stunts, and traders’ disgruntlements. One of
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