Training

Buenos Aires & LaPlata, Argentina, September 15 - 18, 1992. Designed and led series of seminars for judges, lawyers, journalists and law and journalism students as Argentina prepared for oral, public criminal trials. Sponsored by USIA’s U.S. Speakers Program. The Role of the Press in a Democratic Society — Montevideo, Uruguay, September 20 - 21, 1992. Designed and led seminar for judges and lawyers on issues such as censorship, libel, invasion of privacy, media coverage of the courts and protecting confidential sources. Sponsored by the U.S. Agency for International Development.

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, March 16 - 18, 1992. Designed and led seminar attended by government officials and journalists, lawyers, people interested in starting private media and human rights advocates. Advised Ethiopians drafting alternative press law proposal, resolution urging government to improve government media and encourage private media development. Sponsored by Center for Foreign Journalists, Reston, Virginia.

A one-year project funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development to assist journalists in Ethiopia to establish a press association, to lobby for protection of freedom of expression through the constitution-drafting process, and to provide other services designed to encourage growth of privately owned news media.