Ulrik Haagerup says that journalists need to stop focusing solely on problems and also cover solutions. He challenged journalists to be "critical and constructive". 

Ulrik Haagerup of Danish Radio at the DW Global Media Forum

At the Deutsche Welle Global Media Forum 2009, Walter Wilson Nana of Cameroon talks about how the mobile phone has changed the kind of journalism that he can do as part of the Voices of Africa Project. 

Walter Wilson Nana of Cameroon talks about the Voices of Africa Project

Mercedes Bunz of Tagesspiegel talks about how print and online journalism is different and why she thought the 'ghost of paid content' wouldn't return and should go away. 

Mercedes Bunz of Tagesspiegel

Mark Johnson is responsible for the popular YouTube video of street musicians around the world playing the classic Stand by Me. The video has been viewed 30m times on YouTube. What many people might not know is that video is part of an educational foundation, Playing for Change. Here he talks to The Guardian's Kevin Anderson about the foundation and what he learned from the musicians he interviewed. 

TEDGlobal 2009: Mark Johnson of Playing for Change 

Jon Gosier of Appfrica talks about a project to find out what Africans want to know. To do this, he uses a group of mostly volunteers to relay the questions that Africans have via mobile phones to a phone bank. The workers at the phone bank log the questions and answer them using an offline internet search tool.

TEDGlobal 2009: Jon Gosier of Appfrica

Journalist Kevin Anderson interviews Geir Terje Ruud, the editor of Ekstrabladet.dk, about how the Dandish tabloid decides which stories go in print and which ones go online first. In the interview for the Media Development Loan Fund's Knowledge Bridge, Geir also talks about their editorial development team, Ekstrabladet's webTV offering and what skills it takes to be a great digital journalist. 

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