Freelance profile

Javier Farje

I have been a journalist for 30 years. I worked for the BBC World Service (mainly at the Americas Region and BBC World Service Trust for 15 years as a producer, presenter, senior producer, analysis editor, trainer and project manager. I also worked for Amnesty International as a Press Officer. I have worked in broadcasting, online, translations, international media training and public relations. My work at the BBC World Service Trust can be seen at http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/trust/whatwedo/where/latinamerica/2009/05/090520_climate_change_stage_one.shtml. I am a freelance news editor of the Latin America Bureau website www.lab.org.uk. I am also a contributor to Press TV and Hispan TV.

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Contact details:

Street: 265 Capworth Street
Town: London
Postcode: E10 7AJ
Region/nation: London
Country: United Kingdom
Website: http://lacomunidad.elpais.com/palabras-fugaces/posts
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Telephone: 02085390652
Mobile: 07986008365

Skills:

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BroadcasterRates: Broadcasting
TrainerRates: Teaching/training
Online journalismRates: Online/writing
ReporterRates: Reporter
ResearcherRates: Researcher
TranslatorRates: Translation
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Subjects:

  • Current affairs
  • Environment and conservation
  • Charity/voluntary sector
  • Education
  • Foreign affairs and overseas
  • Charity/voluntary sector

Major clients:

  • Latin America Bureau (www.lab.org.uk)
  • Hispan TV

Profile last updated: 2012-02-13 09:56:09

Extra information:

I have been a journalist for more than 30 years. Since I moved to the UK in 1988, I have worked as a magazine editor, trainer and, later at the BBC, as a producer, reporter, website analyst and broadcast journalist. During my last year at the BBC I worked as a project manager with the BBC World Service Trust, having managed, trained and tutored a six-country media and civil society training project which is been used as a model for other courses. Details can be read at http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/trust/whatwedo/where/latinamerica/2009/05/090520_climate_change_stage_one.shtml. I was the project manager as well as the trainer, writer and tutor of distant-learning modules.

 At the moment I am the news editor (freelance) of www.lab.org.uk, the website of the Latin America Bureau. I write a daily bulletin, analysis and features and my coverage of COP15 can be read in the website.

 

I have also done a great deal of translations (English-Spanish and vice-versa) as part of my job at the BBC.

 

I believe that my skills can be transferred to other sectors.

Photographs

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climate change media course, Colombia © Javier Farje climate change media course, Colombia
First workshop of media training on climate change, Bogota, Colombia, 2009
climate change conference, Peru © Javier Farje climate change conference, Peru
This is the first conference of climate change for media workers in Lima, Peru 2009
climate change media course, Peru © Javier Farje climate change media course, Peru
Final workshop for media workers on climate change, Lima, Peru. This was part of a six-country media training project I managed for the BBC World Service Trust in 2009