This post includes highlights, slides and audio from the world’s experts on Lung Health issues. During NPF’s three-day program for journalists on Lung Health, we will be tweeting and sharing photos from Kuala Lumpur.
Information for the selected fellows for Journalist to Journalist Training on lung health issues, ahead of the 43rd Union World Conference on Lung Health Issues in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. In preparation for your trip, please carefully review the following information and instructions.
Renata Affonso travels around her home country, Brazil, and around the world as a freelance documentarian - bringing light to social issues which might otherwise be left untold. Before going on her own, Affonso worked as the Executive-Editor and moderator of the weekly public policy debate program “Sala de Noticias” on Canal Futura, a non-profit TV channel owned by Brazilian media conglomerate TV Globo. Affonso recently participated in the Journalist to Journalist Global Health Conference in Washington DC and has been selected for the National Press Foundation’s upcoming HIV Vaccine program in Bangkok, Thailand.
Affonso discusses how her journalism career has evolved over the 25 years she has been in the industry: from censorship to non-profit journalism to working as a backpack documentarian.
Ndimyake Mwakalyelye recently participated in the National Press Foundation’s Journalist to Journalist Global Health program in Washington DC. As the anchor of Voice of America’s TV program “In Focus,” Mwakalyelye covers a wide range of issues that are of interest to her audience in Africa. Voice of America is the official international public broadcaster of the United States Federal Government.
-An experienced reporter and anchor, Mwakalyelye discusses improving the craft of journalism and journalism ethics. She was interviewed by NPF intern Gabrielle Gorder.
Journalist Collins Mtika was jailed in Malawi for four days last week, in horrendous conditions, after reporting on anti-government protests. We met Collins last year in Atlanta, when he was among 22 fellows chosen to participate in our training for an international conference on AIDS vaccine research. Also in that group was Tom Paulson, now editing the Humanosphere blog for NPR station KPLU in Seattle. The J2J connection kicked in when Tom heard about the arrest.