Nawal Abdel Rida, an Iraqi election candidate, smiles as she speaks with journalists in Baghdad.
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Reuters Foundation delivered four workshops on Elections Reporting and Women Political Empowerment for Print and TV & Radio journalists in Bahrain in November. It provided writing skills, reporting techniques, techniques to run a talk show and TV camera skills for the enhancement of a group of young Bahraini journalists.
The workshops, sponsored by the Bahrain Institute for Political Development (BIPD) and the Supreme Council for Women (SCW), in partnership with the United Nations Development Program and cooperation with the Foundation, was held in the Mercure Grand Hotel Seef in Manama, Bahrain.
Eight journalists and/or announcers from local newspapers, TV and Radio attended each workshop. Print journalists practiced their skills under the direction of Ashraf Shady, Nadia El-Gowely and Rana Sabbagh, writing exercises and stories. They were trained on how best be prepared for a news conference and interviews. Part of the workshop was slide show presentations and another was holding news conferences and interviews.
In addition to that, they were taken off-site to visit election campaigns and write coverage reports. A woman candidate was hosted for a round table discussion. They wrote a woman in the news. TV & Radio journalists and announcers practiced their skills under the direction of Saad Hattar and Ali Asaad: they were trained on how best they can run a talk show and face TV cameras. In addition to that they were trained on preparing a story and covering a gap in broadcasting. The workshops were a success.
5 responses to "Reuters Foundation continues its role in enhancing young journalists' capabilities"
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I am journalist from Zambia who has not benefited from your training but i glad that you are doing a good job since a number of journalists have benefited from your training. keep up the good work and looking forward to a day when i will also take part in your educative and informative trainings
regards,
McDonald Chipenzi
I am journalist from Zambia who has not benefited from your training but i glad that you are doing a good job since a number of journalists have benefited from your training. keep up the good work and looking forward to a day when i will also take part in your educative and informative trainings
regards,
McDonald Chipenzi
I am a young Kenyan Journalist yet to benefit from your training but I must tell you you are doing a wonderful job.
Keep on training more Journalist to gain more especially from the third world countries.
What you are doing is remarkably awesome. may I suggest that you bring more of these trainning courses to the third World Countries, Africa in particalar? Reason: The enabling enviroment is lacking in these third World Countries consequently, journalists in this part are not always privilege with periodic trainning courses of this kind.
cheers!
Its highly interesting because it will allow us the young journalists to have knowledge and good skills in our work as practising journalists,and iam hoping that you will organise such training in my country,Nigeria.
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07 Sep 2009 10:44:15 GMT
I am journalist from Zambia who has not benefited from your training but i glad that you are doing a good job since a number of journalists have benefited from your training. keep up the good work and looking forward to a day when i will also take part in your educative and informative trainings regards, McDonald Chipenzi
28 Aug 2009 15:13:58 GMT
I am journalist from Zambia who has not benefited from your training but i glad that you are doing a good job since a number of journalists have benefited from your training. keep up the good work and looking forward to a day when i will also take part in your educative and informative trainings regards, McDonald Chipenzi
18 Sep 2007 13:12:43 GMT
I am a young Kenyan Journalist yet to benefit from your training but I must tell you you are doing a wonderful job. Keep on training more Journalist to gain more especially from the third world countries.
04 Sep 2007 13:19:13 GMT
What you are doing is remarkably awesome. may I suggest that you bring more of these trainning courses to the third World Countries, Africa in particalar? Reason: The enabling enviroment is lacking in these third World Countries consequently, journalists in this part are not always privilege with periodic trainning courses of this kind. cheers!
09 Aug 2007 18:51:23 GMT
Its highly interesting because it will allow us the young journalists to have knowledge and good skills in our work as practising journalists,and iam hoping that you will organise such training in my country,Nigeria.