CBA Brisbane 2012
Brisbane Conference & Exhibition Centre | 22-25 April
The CBA 2012 Conference in Brisbane, Australia is now open for registration. The conference will be hosted by ABC and will focus on media leadership during disasters and emergencies.
Our conference website provides information on visas, hotels and more. We will also be updating the conference blog regularly in the run up to keep delegates up-to-date with the latest developments.
The conference will take place from the 22-25 April. Early bird rates are currently available to anyone who registers before 20th February.
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A protest camp in London's Parliament Square has been cleared by police. Campaigners set up the "Democracy Village" in May 2010 outside the Houses of Parliament, where they have protested against a variety of issues including the war in Afghanistan. The removal comes after the police reform and social responsibility bill came into force, preventing encampments in certain locations around Westminster.
CBA News Exchange members are: BBC, ABC, CBC, MNBC Maldives, GBN Grenada, SBS Australia, Maori TV New Zealand, EMTV Papua New Guinea, Daar Communications Nigeria, GBC Ghana, Radio Taiwan International, Islam Channel and CBC Barbados. Membership of the Exchange is free up until 31 August 2012 and is open to all CBA members.
To access material, members of the CBA News Exchange should click here.
- 24/01/2012 Taiwanese elections 'expose Beijing's lies' (A)
- 20/01/2012 Ma says second term brings greater responsibility (A)
- 19/01/2012 New stats highlight dangers of not wearing...
- 17/01/2012 Parliament Square cleared
- 17/01/2012 Taiwan protests over island dispute (A)
- 16/01/2012 Taiwan to uphold foreign commitments post-election (A)
- 16/01/2012 Celebrating Australasian Antarctica Expedition
- 13/01/2012 Maths Dad
- 13/01/2012 Penguins 'disrupted' by iceberg
- 12/01/2012 Australian Antarctic expeditioners have today...
CBA Travel Attachment Bursaries 2012
The CBA is offering 6 Travel Bursaries of up to £1800 to employees of member organisations for travel to another Commonwealth country for approximately 1-2 weeks. The bursary is provided for a project that would benefit the bursar's organisation and society and meet the objectives of the CBA and its funding organisations.
It should also include an exchange between CBA member organisations where the bursary is taken. Those considered for the bursary cannot travel to the UK. The Guidelines and Application form can be downloaded here. The deadline for receiving applications is 16th March.
CBA: Live in Accra - "The Gender Agenda"
CBA: Live in Accra explored and looked into creating fresh approaches to the creation of faction and fiction in the digital age on the theme of ‘The Gender Agenda’ for national and international markets. The debate running under the theme took place at the British Council Ghana on the 19th November. The event was ran in partnership with Ghana Broadcasting Corporation, the CBA’s lead member in Ghana, the British Council Ghana and SADiE.
New iLearn Courses Available
The CBA is again partnering with the BBC World Service Trust to offer a range of online iLearn courses to CBA members. Trainees will be able to perform practical tasks and submit them to online mentors for evaluation. From January 2012 we will be offering courses in: Reporting women’s issues, General news room management, Election reporting and Features journalism.
To apply for an iLearn course please complete the application form indicating which course you are interested in and email it to Jasmine Dhariwal, CBA Training Director: jas@cba.org.uk. The courses will take place from January – March 2011 and log ins for successful applicants will be sent in January 2012.
The self-directed courses have also had some new courses added. See more on the Training page.
One World Media Awards
Entries are now being accepted for the 2012 One World Media Awards. For details on how to enter, including categories, criteria, eligibility and entry fees, click here.
The One World Media Awards recognise the most outstanding media coverage of the developing world and the unique role of journalists and filmmakers in bridging the divide between different societies and raising awareness of vital development issues. Please note that entries have to come from the UK.
UWI Receives BBC Caribbean Archives
The material, an endowment from the BBC World Service to the UWI, for research and study purposes, captures the day-to-day political, economic and other pan Caribbean developments of more than two decades up to the closure of the BBC Caribbean Service in March 2011.
Debbie Ransome, former head of BBC Caribbean, in making the presentation to UWI Vice Chancellor, Prof. E. Nigel Harris, at a ceremony at the UWI Mona Library, declared, "this marks the end of an era for the premium pan-Caribbean news and current affairs broadcasting provided by the BBC for and about the Caribbean region".
Prof. Harris thanked the BBC for the over 3000 hours of recordings and corresponding scripts and commended the small archiving team which worked under Ms. Ransome. He described the archives as "an invaluable resource not just for scholars, but for Caribbean people as a whole."
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