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London workshop prepares for online financial/business news training
2009-12-08 12:34:46

Quizzing the World Trade Organization during the workshop
Quizzing the World Trade Organization during the workshop
In November 12 journalists from around the continents attended the first new-style financial and business news workshop in London, intended to lead them on to various online instruction modules in coming months as our training changes to meet new demands.

Journalists from Afghanistan, Argentina, Armenia, Bangladesh, Indonesia, Jamaica, Myanmar, Nigeria, North Korea, Saudi Arabia and Turkey covered a wide range of issues during the one-week Thomson Reuters Foundation workshop. The new training format follows on from 38 longer business news workshops held in London since 1990, when the first such course lasted six weeks!

Discussions and exercises on topics ranging from the financial crisis and the spectre of mounting debt to steering the economy, working with numbers, company news, stock markets and commodity/energy news kept participants busy all week.

They also fired questions on trade issues to the World Trade Organization in Geneva and visited the London Metal Exchange and the Thomson Reuters newsroom.

“I feel like I need to restart myself, change the way I approach the news,” one participant commented afterwards. “I learned different ways of thinking about and writing news angles,” added another.

The workshop was led by former Reuters journalists Roger Jeal and Richard Waddington.





 

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