Category Archive for 'Conferences and Seminars'

Leaving for Rio+20

About to leave for Rio to co-lead a seminar on covering rural poverty issues –organised jointly by IFAD, Thomson Reuters Foundation and Inter Press Service– during the Rio+20 UN conference on sustainable development, from Jun 16 to Jun 22.  The conference is organised by the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, and will attract heads [...]

Transparency is not one of oil’s properties; corruption seems to rise to its surface wherever it is found. Is oil intrinsically dirty? This was the starting point for my presentation about the relationship between corruption and the environment, in a workshop for journalists from across Europe organised by Friends of the Earth International (FoEI) and [...]

Teaching at University

As in previous years, I was invited to teach at University of Navarra as Guest Professor last month. As part of the International Media Programme, I spoke about the crisis in the media sector, the coverage of the war in Iraq, propaganda and gender. The International Media Programme is part of a one academic year [...]

Africa IPS MDG3 Seminar – May 2009  IPS Africa brought together in Johannesburg, South Africa, senior reporters and gender organisations to review the existing editorial challenges of covering current issues from a gender perspective. I was one of the presenters talking about IPS’s Gender Wire, with which IPS wants to redress the huge imbalance that exists today [...]

On Thursday 14th of May, the second annual International Street Paper Awards took place in the Logen Theatre in the beautiful city of Bergen, Norway. The awards were organised by INSP, in collaboration with Megafon, the local street paper of Bergen. The awards were the highlight of the INSP Annual Conference, and a key part of [...]

This year’s theme of IPS’s annual conference was the role of media in covering climate change and development. The conference took place in The Hague on Oct 23, with the auspices of Oxfam Novib and the National Committee for International Cooperation and Sustainable Development of the Netherlands. I took part of the discussions with a [...]

Presentación Javier Moro

MIREN GUTIÉRREZ | PERIODISTA Y ESCRITORA «Los que más dinero negro lavan son algunos bancos de los países desarrollados»     ALBERTO MOYANO   Vota 3 votos Miren Gutiérrez, durante la presentación de su novela.   La periodista donostiarra hablará mañana en el Aula de Cultura DV sobre las redes de blanqueo de dinero   [...]

Un libro de Miren Gutiérrez sigue los pasos de Marc Harris, “uno de los mayores estafadores del Caribe” la periodista donostiarrapresenta la obra ‘la ciudad de las cigarras’ La escritora ha comenzado a escribir su segundo libro, un trabajo que también excava en la historia negra de Panamá Miren Gutiérrez en una presentación anterior de [...]