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DrikNews wins Manthan Awards

Winners of Manthan Awards 2012

Muhammad Aminuzzaman of DrikNews receiving the runner up Manthan Award in the category E-NEWS and MEDIA. 2nd December 2012.?Delhi. India.

Manthan Award is an initiative in India to recognize the best practices in e-Content and Creativity. It was launched on 10th October ?2004, by?Digital Empowerment Foundation. The core objective of the Manthan Award process is to make visible the contents that already exist.

Winners from Manthan Awards 2012:
E-NEWS and MEDIA
Chai With Lakshmi, Red Bangle
Rural Visual Journalism Network, DRIK
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(Special Mention: Barta Vubon, OneIndia.in)
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RURAL VISUAL JOURNALISM NETWORK LAUNCHED IN BANGLADESH

Report by World Press Photo Foundation


RVJN correspondent Rebeka Akter is working in the field to make a multimedia report in Bogra, Bangladesh, June 2012. ? Shafiq Islam/DrikNEWS

On 26 November, Drik launched the?Rural Visual Journalism Network?(RJVN), an initiative of Drik and supported by the?Academy partnership program in Bangladesh. RVJN is designed to address specific issues faced by media and give voice to rural citizens in Bangladesh. RJVN aims to create a network of rural visual journalists who, through their work, will be able to bring multimedia stories from the districts on governance, human rights, and other relation issues to the attention of the world. Over the next five years, a network of 60 professional photographers, NGO workers, and citizen journalists will be trained to produce multimedia (photography, video, text) stories from rural districts. Continue reading “RURAL VISUAL JOURNALISM NETWORK LAUNCHED IN BANGLADESH”

World Press Photo partners with Drik and Pathshala to train rural journalists



Drik, based in Dhaka, aims to challenge social inequality and bring positive change through multimedia communication. The partnership between World Press Photo and Drik focuses on improving Drik‘s organisational structure and also developing a Rural Visual Journalism Network.
Drik‘s education wing Pathshala, is an institute that offers media training to journalists. The partnership between World Press Photo and Pathshala aims to gain official accreditation for the institute and also manage the growth of the organisation.

Tales from rural Bangladesh


Bhuter beel (wetland) is situated at Terkhada upazilla in Khulna district. Only five years ago, it was a vast land for cultivation of different types of crops in the dry season. But now there is no cultivation due to water logging. Fishing and collecting waterlily have become the main sources of income for the people in this area. Torikul Isalm (25) used to cultivate crops five years ago in this area, now he lives on fishing. Some people have got involved in bird hunting, as they failed to find suitable alternative jobs. Thousands of people in this water-logged area have become unemployed as no initiative was taken by the government to address the problem. Local people are demanding immediate steps by the authorities to resolve the long-drawn issue of water logging. This story by Shaikh Mohir Uddin/DrikNEWS, is based on the feedback of the affected people, Khulna, December 2011.

The Rural Visual Journalism programme is an innovative multimedia project between Drik and Pathshala in Bangladesh and the World Press Photo Foundation in the Netherlands.
 
 

World Press Photo arrives in Dhaka

Fatima al-Qaws cradles her son Zayed (18), who is suffering from the effects of tear gas after participating in a street demonstration, in Sanaa, Yemen, on 15 October. World Press Photo of the Year and People in the News, 1st prize singles, Samuel Aranda/NOOR for The New York Times

 
Drik in cooperation with the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, Dhaka, have pleasure in inviting you to the opening of the World Press Photo 12 exhibition at Drik Gallery, on Thursday, 26 April 2012, 5.30 pm. After the launch in Amsterdam on the 20th April 2012, this is the first public viewing of the exhibition, which will also be launched in Poland, Spain, Portugal and Italy in April 2012.
A leopard attacks a forest warden after escaping from the Mahananda Wildlife Sanctuary, in West Bengal, India.. 2012, Spot News, Honorable Mention singles. Salil Bera. The Week/Majority World

The exhibition honours the prizewinners of World Press Photo?s 55th Photo Contest. Continue reading “World Press Photo arrives in Dhaka”