The final blog session

Well, this is the last blog sessions of this subject. How much distress. It was a good experience for me. In fact, it was the part that I most enjoyed of the english class, because for me is most easy write and read in english, that speak and listen.

This excercise did help me with my english, specially with the vocabulary and the explanation of topics. I learned to replace the words when I don't know how express me. And I enjoyed the topics of the blog session's, above all those related with my career and with my musical likes.

The "pros" of blogging in the english class are that it's a training of the hand and the brain, and is a exercise like a monologue, where a dialogue with myself. Then, we can edit the errors. The "cons" are that neglected the speaking and listening part of english.

Citizen News

Today, I'm going to talk about one of my activities. I work in the Radio Juan Gómez Millas, of ICEI, doing the Noticiero Ciudadano, or Citizen News, for his translation. Is a radio program, where we give the news and informations, with the characteristic of this is news of organizations and social movements, and not follow the guide of the mass media.

The Noticiero Ciudadano is transmitted of Monday to Thursday, between one o’clock and half past one in the evening (half hour of program), by the Radio JGM and the others community radio stations all over the country. It’s have a team of eleven reporters, all are journalist students of ICEI. They do the news for the program. I’m the producer and editor.

This News was born then of the earthquake to 2010. We gather for report, where other vision, the news of the reconstruction. This has been a good experience, because we give place to other voices, not present in the mass media, as victims, students, ONG’s, assemblies, environmentalists, indigenous, sexual minorities, for example.

The last year, our main theme to report was the student movement. We cover all the marchs and actions of the students; it was a great informative job. 

The website of the front pages

A career related website is Kiosko.net that meets the most front page of the newspaper to the world. Kiosko isn’t a site for to make journalism, but it serves for to be informed. 

The website has six sections, in accordance to the geographic location: Africa, Asia-Pacific, Europe, Latin America, Canada and USA. Then, every section is subdivided in countries and estates (in the case of USA). The grace of the website is that it has a picture to the front page and not only the headline to the newspaper, which gives visuality and attraction.

Some papers that appear are The Times, El País, Le Monde, Corriere Della Sera, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, Clarín, O Globo, El Mercurio, for example.

I visit often this website, because is an easy mode to be informed about the world news. Also, every front page has the link of the newspaper, so I can visit their own website and read more international news too.

I like this website because is a very useful tool for a journalist. For example, it serves to see how important is a news to international level. I remember that then to chilean earthquake, the most to newspapers had in his front pages the report.

And, this is the link of the website: http://kiosko.net/