Just came across this article from Minivan News that pretty much summarizes the current state of the media in the Maldives. What particularly hit home for us here in the Maldives Project was this quote from Tiare Rath, an American journalist who spoke to Maldivian journos last Thursday:
“…one of the major issues all my students talked about is resistance among newsroom leadership – editors and publishers. Even if the journalists support and understand the principles being taught, they consistently tell me they cannot apply them,” Rath said. “This is a very, very serious problem that needs to be addressed.”
“…one of the major issues all my students talked about is resistance among newsroom leadership – editors and publishers. Even if the journalists support and understand the principles being taught, they consistently tell me they cannot apply them,” Rath said. “This is a very, very serious problem that needs to be addressed.”
It’s an island of about 2000 people – a 30-minute seaplane ride north of Male’, the Maldivian capital – and it takes about five minutes to walk from one end to another.
In the Baa Atoll Education Center, we were greeted by a group of 15 young students who were incredibly eager to get hands-on multimedia training.
In an intensive week-long workshop, [...]
During a workshop in Eydhafushi, we were paid a short visit by a journalist from the Eydhafushi Times – the island’s leading local news!
(Full disclosure: the reporter was also the IT guy at the school where we were teaching.)
Check out the piece here!
We just came across this article describing a trash island in Singapore (their version of Thilafushi, the Maldivian counterpart). Read through this article and marvel at the more environmental way the Singaporeans are disposing of their trash!
A handful are TV reporters for the national channel, TVM. Others are radio reporters and still others are senior political writers for major newspapers. All are, well, in their early 20s.
Meet the first class of Journalism students in the Maldives.
This workshop has been the most fun yet — we’ve had to pack years of training into one [...]
Little did we know beforehand what a tumultuous place the Maldives is, at least when it comes to politics. But these past few days we’ve become more immersed in the Maldivian politics than we ever wished for, and we can tell you one thing for sure –things are far from peaceful here!!
A few days ago we got word that the [...]
The Maldives’ only school offering college-level education, the Maldives College of Higher Education on the capital island of Male, will start awarding degrees in journalism next year. The historic news was reported by Minivan News, a local independent news source, on Monday. The Dean of the Faculty of Arts, Abdul Rasheed Ali, told Minivan News that the college will introduce [...]
From talking to people about the Maldives Project, it’s become evident that many people have never heard of the country. Or even if they have, they aren’t sure where it’s located, what it looks like and what the culture is like. And when you throw in the term climate change, people are even more puzzled. How could climate change affect [...]
Excerpt:
Speaking at CNN’s Earth’s Frontiers debate in Seoul, Nasheed said he was looking for a greater urgency from countries and business across the world in dealing with the problems caused by climate change.
“I think it’s going to be very difficult for the Maldives to survive if business goes as usual,” he said. “I think it’s time especially for big emitter [...]
What better way to celebrate Earth Day than to help support the Maldives Project?
