Ecobreves – CUBA: Journalists in the Time of Hurricanes

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HAVANA, Mar 18 2006 (IPS) - Ahead of hurricane season in June, an international seminar for journalists announced this week in Havana is an attempt to provide better tools for reporting on this kind of natural disaster. From May 29 to Jun. 1, experts and academics will explain the upward trend in the number and intensity of hurricanes in the Atlantic basin.

The panel “Journalistic coverage and hurricanes” will put emphasis on damage prevention, in which the media play an extremely important role, says Roger Ricardo, coordinator of the workshop organized by the scientific and environmental journalism department of the José Martí International Journalism Institute and the Cuban Ministry of Environment.

“The seminar could also lead to the creation of a network of journalists in the Caribbean region specializing in these issues,” Ricardo said in conversation with Tierramérica.