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Frontline/World - Rough Cut

"Rough Cut is a regular series of online video reports from around the globe." It serves as an outlet for emerging documentary talent as well as established reporters and holds to the same journalistic standards as all Frontline reports.

The Pulitzer Center gives travel grants for international reporting projects to journalists who agree to blog from the field, publish in print and online outlets, write longer magazine stories and short documentaries for public television and do feature-length documentary production. The focus is topics that have been under-reported, inaccurately reported or not reported at all.

Frontline/World - Your Coffee Dollar

This exercise lets you decide how to allocate the profits from your daily cup of coffee between growers, traders, shippers, roasters and retailers. After you submit your ideal allocations, you can read about how the profits actually get split and read about how fair trade fits into the picture. The results might surprise you.

PBS gives you a chance to "step into the job of asylum officer for a few minutes... with no real life consequences." You're given the case of a Sikh man from the Punjab who claims he can't go back to India because of government persecution. You must decide whether or not to grant his request using video of the man's responses to asylum officers' questions, as well as printed research and gossip from your coworkers. Afterwards, you can compare your decision to what actually happened and hear video commentary on the case from the asylum officer's point of view.