The Institute for Press and Society (Instituto Prensa y Sociedad, IPYS) will be co-hosting a training seminar in May aimed at giving Peruvian journalists tools to report more extensively on press-freedom issues.

The seminar is part of a three-year initiative the International Center for Journalists (ICFJ) has recently launched in the region to raise awareness of free-expression issues among the media. ICFJ's project, "Covering Freedom of Expression: Resources for Journalists," will include a series of workshops taught by local and international trainers in the capital cities of 22 Latin American countries. Participants will receive hands-on training to identify and develop story ideas and learn reporting techniques for covering free-expression issues.

The project is funded by the Robert R. McCormick Tribune Foundation.

For more details about ICFJ's three-year project, see
www.icfj.org/foe


The May seminars are open to local journalists, publishers and trainers and will take place in Lima (14-16 May) and in Mexico City (21-23 May).

For more information on the seminars, contact Lucia Migliónico of ICFJ by e-mail:
lucia@icfj.org.

In Peru, contact Jenny Cabrera, IPYS, (
jcabrera@ipyspe.org).

In Mexico, contact Carmen de la Rosa (
luzdelcarmend@yahoo.com).