Emmy Award-Winning Journalist Conducts Media Workshops in La Paz and Cochabamba

Journalists practice interview skills with Hena Cuevas

The U.S. Embassy, in conjunction with the Fundación para el Periodismo, Universidad Andina Simon Bolivar, and the Programa de Apoyo a la Democracia Municipal (PADEM), is pleased to be supporting a workshop on Citizen Journalism, T.V. and Digital News Production for Bolivian journalists. Through the Embassy, Hena Cuevas, an Emmy Award-winning journalist from Los Angeles, California, has come to La Paz to work with a diverse

Hena Cuevas works with Ariel Mario Camacho, a journalist from Punata Cochabamba, to produce television news report

group of journalists from around Bolivia on techniques to improve the production of news. She also covered many emerging issues in media, including digital media and citizen journalism. In addition to working with news teams from many of the national TV networks and newspapers, Ms. Cuevas is also conducting a seminar with a group of 20

Hena Cuevas and a group of journalists from rural parts of Bolivia

journalists from rural areas of Bolivia, most of them of indigenous origins. These journalists are receiving hands-on training with professional video and audio equipment, and are producing news stories to show at the end of the workshop. Ms. Cuevas' program will run for two weeks and over 100 journalists in total will participate in La Paz and Cochabamba.