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PAN-AFRICAN WORKSHOP FROM WORLD JOURNALISM INSTITUTE
The World Journalism Institute (WJI) is holding a workshop for African Christian journalists on Jan. 17-23, 2009, according to a WJI press release. The campus of the African Bible University outside of Kampala, Uganda, will host the workshop. American journalists and educators will use seminars, discussion, lectures and individual exercises to instruct and help the participants.
“For years we have been getting inquiries from African Christian journalists for training and encouragement,” WJI Director Robert Case said in the press release. “The time seems right for us to go to Africa and offer our program in an accessible way.”
All African Christian journalists are welcome, but applicants are required to have a strong understanding of English and complete the application process on the WJI Web site. Housing, meals, tuition and workshop materials are all included in the $100 fee, but participants must provide their own transportation.
More information on the first-ever WJI pan-African workshop can be found at www.worldji.com.
EXCLUSIVE WORKSHOP ON MARKETING TO WOMEN
The Evangelical Christian Publishers Association (ECPA) is presenting an intensive, two-day seminar on marketing to women. Michele Miller will teach the “WonderBranding: Marketing to Women” workshop on Sept. 23-24, 2008, at The Wizard Academy in Austin, Texas.
The workshop addresses sales, product development, marketing, design and editorial concerns for “leading professionals and managers” with instruction on “how to brand and market to the female consumer,” according to the ECPA Web site. The seminar includes real-life examples and discussion on how to reach individual women through creative marketing.
Miller is a partner at the Wizard of Ads marketing firm. She has written two books and has an active blog on the topic.
For more information, please visit www.ECPA.org.
CHRISTIANITY TODAY EXPANDS INTERNATIONALLY
A Portuguese version of Christianity Today (CT) is the latest in a line of ventures by Christianity Today International (CTI) to expand worldwide. Cristianismo Hoje is now being published in Brazil, and a South Korean version of CT is also in the works.
In 2001 CT began working with foreign evangelical organizations to offer online CT content in 14 languages, according to chief strategy officer Keith Stonehocker in a CT press release. CT’s readership is mainly in the U.S., with 19 percent of its audience in the Midwest. Cristianismo Hoje will publish up to 30 percent of CT’s stories, and local writers will fill in the gaps as the venture reaches out to the 35 million Brazilians with evangelical affiliations.
“Missionary communications has always been part of our lives,” CT editor in chief David Neff said. “So we’re aware, I think, of global issues much more than the average citizen, because we’ve had that history.”
AFRICAN CHRISTIAN COMIC PROJECT
COMIX35 is a Christian comics ministry based on Exodus 35:30-35 that offers international seminars and consultation on producing and effectively using comics-style literature. Although the ministry began in 1996, this year it has turned its focus to “special focus” publishing projects, called “P.I.C.S. Projects” as an alternative to seminars to help people create their own evangelistic comics.
A new African Christian Comic Project is one of the new avenues currently being developed by COMIX35 to work with African Christian publishers and cartoonists.
For more information, check out http://comix35.gospelcom.net/invitationals.html#Anchor-37516.