Foreign Correspondent
Date: January 3, 2015 – January 6, 2015
Location: Prague, Czech Republic
For the seventh time, TOL hosted students and faculty from Hong Kong Baptist University for a study abroad visit, this time a four-day course in January 2015. During this course, called “Foreign Correspondent Course,” students received an introduction to international reporting from New York Times correspondent Raphael Minder. They also learned the essentials of data journalism and data visualization from a team of Czech experts, Jan Boček and Petr Kočí. The course concluded with a visit to the revolutionary newsroom of the Economia publishing house.