By Bobbie Mellor | Fri., August 19, 4:53 PM
As grey skies set in over Canary Wharf this week, we’re envying members of the TrustMedia team who have jetted off to sunnier climes or escaped to the Oval for the cricket, but there’s plenty to keep us busy here!
This week we’ve been working hard with colleagues in the Middle East on our new Egyptian Elections website. We’ve now confirmed the Egyptian journalists who’ll be working on the website led by Editor-in-Chief Saif Hamdan, and have started to build the website itself, which is looking great. We’re even looking at the possibility of launching similar projects around the world so watch this space.
We were also pleased to make it into Media Helping Media’s ‘Top Sites for Journalists’, we’re up there with the best of them so check out the list here: http://www.scoop.it/t/top-sites-for-journalists/p/366765092/trustmedia
On Wednesday we sat down with our tech team and learnt all about Thomson Reuters Foundation’s upcoming interactive community website, youTrust. So (in my best IT language) YouTrust will have three main features:
- Livestreams. YouTrust will run several livestreams of news, tweets and multimedia around breaking stories and themes that connect journalists, NGOs and lawyers. Here you can get involved in the discussion and connect with others over the issues that matter to you.
- ‘Tipping’. This means adding multimedia from sites like Flickr, Youtube and Vimeo to youTrust. Anyone can do it and youTrust will magically add it to the relevant livestream. This will create a live database of accessible multimedia categorised by themes.
- ‘Packages’. Packages are compilations of multimedia that any youTrust user can put together to create their very own themed webpages. You can then brand them and go viral or use them as platforms for promoting or campaigning for your cause.
As well as showcasing news from our current content partners, this week we’ve confirmed another couple of partners who will be providing us with articles for the website, so look out for news from Center for International Media Ethics (CIME) and Media Helping Media on the TrustMedia website soon.
Last but not least we’ve announced a new course in Women's Health and Rights Reporting in Johannesburg from 7th- 21st October 2011. We’ll be running it in partnership with GBCHealth who are launching their new initiative 'Healthy Women, Healthy Economies'. Take a look at our Journalism Training page for all the details and how to apply.
Don’t forget to keep up with TrustMedia on twitter @Trust_Media and through the Thomson Reuters Foundation Facebook page.
Happy weekend!
The TrustMedia Team
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