Workshop on news exchange for broadcast journalists starts in Somalia
28-07-2006 (Paris)
Helping Somalia’s broadcast media practitioners to exchange news and educating them on principles of broadcast journalism and safety issues are the objectives of a five-day workshop that started today in the city of Baidoa, in Southwestern Somalia, currently the temporary headquarters of the country’s Transitional Federal Government.
The workshop that is organized by the National Union of Somali Journalists (NUSOJ) with the support of UNESCO, is intended to help participants - journalists from Somalia’s main towns, namely Mogadishu, Baidoa, Beledweyne, Kismayo, Bossasso, Jowhar and Galka’yo - understand modern ways of making news exchange and thereby encourage new forms of cooperation between radio stations.
The journalists attending the workshop are expected to have improved knowledge of writing and reporting for electronic media, radio newscast producing, programming, team-work, right and duty of balance, accuracy and impartiality, neutrality and professionalism.
During the five days of training, the trainees will be educated on topics such as digital production techniques for radio, journalists’ safety and will develop and test an internet-based audio news exchange network.
More than fifteen privately owned radio stations operate in the country. As Somalia is a society with a strong oral culture, radio stations are broadly listened to in almost every village of the country. This is the first such workshop organized in Somalia. Radio Warsan, formerly called Democratic Media Concern (DMC), offered the trainees to come to its studio in Baidoa for practice exercise.
“On behalf of Somali journalists we really express gratitude for UNESCO for this momentous support” said Omar Faruk Osman, the Secretary General of the National Union of Somali Journalists, at the opening of the workshop
The journalists attending the workshop are expected to have improved knowledge of writing and reporting for electronic media, radio newscast producing, programming, team-work, right and duty of balance, accuracy and impartiality, neutrality and professionalism.
During the five days of training, the trainees will be educated on topics such as digital production techniques for radio, journalists’ safety and will develop and test an internet-based audio news exchange network.
More than fifteen privately owned radio stations operate in the country. As Somalia is a society with a strong oral culture, radio stations are broadly listened to in almost every village of the country. This is the first such workshop organized in Somalia. Radio Warsan, formerly called Democratic Media Concern (DMC), offered the trainees to come to its studio in Baidoa for practice exercise.
“On behalf of Somali journalists we really express gratitude for UNESCO for this momentous support” said Omar Faruk Osman, the Secretary General of the National Union of Somali Journalists, at the opening of the workshop
Workshop Participants© NUSOJ
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· Media Development: News Archives 2006
· Somalia: News Archives 2006
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