Mexican youth trained in multimedia for adding content to church Web sites

As denomination's Internet platform arrives locally, leaders offer young people training in news, Web production July 21, 2008 Merida, Yucatan, Mexico Raul Lozano, communication director for the Adventist Church in Southern Mexico, teaches the basics of newswriting during a July 14 workshop in Cancun. He and other leaders hope the traveling workshop held in five cities will empower young people to serve as local reporters and Web producers for their congregations. [photo: German Rodríguez] Brother Lozano's traveling media training show made a five-city tour earlier this month. Seventh-day Adventist Church communication leaders trained nearly 130 of the church's young people to produce news articles and videos for the Web in a series of one-day workshops across Southern Mexico. The training was offered in response to this... [read full story]