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Countries: Dominican Republic

TAINOS CYBER-JOURNALISTS: BUILDING PROFESSIONAL CAPACITIES FOR LOCAL JOURNALISTS

In the Dominican Republic there are 7 national printed newspapers and an imprecise number of local newspapers. Over five hundred radio and television stations and more than three hundred domestic and international TV cable stations. The practice of journalism is governed by the Constitution of the Dominican Republic; 61-32 Law on Freedom of Expression and Media; by Law 10-91 of licensing of journalists; 200-04 and the Law on Free Access to Public Information.

 

The Dominican College of Journalists (CDP) has more than four thousand (4,000) members who are journalism...

Safety training for Dominican journalists

The safety of journalists is a serious problem in the Dominican Republic. This project therefore aims to train Dominican journalists to understand the legal framework in which they perform their duties, identify threats they may confront, learn risk reduction skills and develop safety initiatives, in accordance with the UN Plan of Action on the Safety of Journalists. The training program will follow UNESCO’s Model Curricula for Journalism Education - A Compendium of New Syllabi (2013). Specifically, it will adapt the Safety and Journalism course, including the section on specific threats...

Media assessment in Dominican Republic using the Media Development Indicators

In the Dominican Republic freedom of expression, press freedom and other related media issues are protected by different laws. There are many traditional and new media outlets for such a small country (and a Small Island Development State) but ownership of media is highly concentrated within a few privileged politic and economic powerful groups. This limits the diversity of media content and confines the views and topics covered by media to private interests. In 2010, the former Dominican President, Leonel Fernández, formed a national commission that prepared 5 law projects to reform or...

Promoting high quality journalistic coverage of environment issues

Latin America and the Caribbean is a very vulnerable region where the environment is concerned. The Dominican Republic is a Small Island Developing State (SIDS) where the impact of climatic change has the potential to be devastating for the environment. Unfortunately media workers and journalists often do not have specialist degrees, and they particularly lack knowledge and training on issues related to the environment. As a consequence, they are unable to reflect objectively such issues, and assume their role of surveying the negative impacts on the environment and educating citizens to...

Training Workshop on Raising Gender Awareness through Media

The media's handling of gender issues has an enormous effect on people's understanding and support of gender equality. It is therefore of paramount importance to equip media professionals with adequate knowledge and skills to address gender issues in all communication processes, and to report news in an objective and gender-sensitive manner. This project aims to provide training on such issues to journalists and media professionals from the Dominican Republic in order to promote a genuine and faire image of Dominican women by increasing gender perspectives in the media and strengthening...

Promoting Best Practices in Journalism in the Age of the Internet: Ethics, Challenges, and Innovation

New media is developing as an alternative to news in the Dominican Republic as traditional media (three major newspapers and two free dailies) seems more and more committed to the statu quo. In a moment where governmental pressure is becoming permanent news in the region, at a time when the economic crisis is hitting the traditional media hard with palpable consequences on the quality of the reporting due to strained working conditions for journalists and other pressures by the economic powers that have a say in the journalistic agenda; today, when new media is becoming increasingly...

Strengthening Freedom of Expression in Radio, TV, and Schools of Journalism

The Dominican Republic's issues regarding freedom of expression no longer revolve around government censorship. It is of a new kind of restraint that journalists and editors complain about: the dictatorship of publicity and of the owners of media enterprises, who are often business people involved in other types of activities at the same time. In this context, a process of self-censorship has flourished. News gathering and publishing are headed towards a comfortable, light vision of reality. Conflict is avoided and good journalism is dying. Closely related to this problem, is the academic...

Strengthening of Freedom of Expression in Dominican Republic

In the Dominican Republic, the serious financial crisis in 2003 led to a devaluation that reached 200%, which resulted in the freezing of many journalists' salaries and resulting in the discontinuation of many newspapers which, until then, were owned by the some of the most powerful banks in the country. This process has cast many shadows on the future of the traditional Dominican media pluralism. In addition, the murders of two journalists in 2002 and 2003 raised social awareness on the disturbing situation of the media and the importance of strengthening freedom of expression in the...

Strengthen the network of popular development-oriented radio stations

Period: 1998-1999

Assistance to train young people to produce communication for development programme

Period: 1993-1996

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