Lebanese Journalists Trained to Cover Corruption Issues
Media are NGOs’ partners in the fight against corruption, experts told Lebanese journalists at a workshop in Beirut. Media have played a key role in uncovering Arab leaders’ corruption, according to Dr. Azmi Shuaibi, the Arab Anti-Corruption and Integrity Network’s … Continue
UAE Foreign Aid Organizations Participate in Strat Comm Course
Some 20 participants from United Arab Emirates-funded foreign aid organizations learned how to fine-tune their communications strategies by ensuring better interaction with field workers and disseminating their news through the media. The participants took part in a workshop on Strategic … Continue
That’s Entertainment! Training Journalists Covering the Industry
How can one train journalists in coverage of the entertainment industry? It’s not just television, radio, the movies and awards shows, but also the performing arts, the lucrative gaming business, health matters, and sometimes sports issues that define entertainment. Add … Continue
MU Trains Lebanese Journos to Cover Women’s Economic Empowerment
A series of countrywide workshops introduced Lebanese journalists to women’s economic empowerment in rural areas in a bid to improve media coverage of the often-neglected topic. Print, online and broadcast journalists based in various regions of Lebanon learned how to … Continue
Journalists Learn to Communicate Women’s Economic Empowerment
Print and online journalists attending the first in a series of Lebanon-wide workshops on women’s economic empowerment learned about gender mainstreaming in the media, promoting equality, and reviewed case studies of successful initiatives. Beirut-based reporters and civil society representatives attended … Continue
Tripoli Trainees Jump on Citizen Journalism Bandwagon
Fourteen trainees learned how to become citizen journalists while maintaining professional and ethical standards during a workshop organized by the Lebanese Center for Active Citizenship. The training in December 2012, funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development, touched on … Continue
Lebanese Students Taste Investigative Journalism
Twenty-one students got an introduction to investigative journalism and its role in enhancing citizenship at a workshop in Lebanon’s northern port city of Tripoli. The one-day training involved definitions of investigative journalism, duties and responsibilities of investigative journalists, and how … Continue
MU Leads UAE Investigative Journalism Training
Over 50 UAE-based journalists feel better equipped to tackle investigative assignments after two intensive courses conducted by Media Unlimited director Magda Abu-Fadil. “As a general introduction to investigative journalism, procedures and information, it was suitable, but for implementation, one needs … Continue
MU Beefs Up Al Arabiya English Journalists’ Abilities
Media Unlimited director Magda Abu-Fadil drilled four members of Al Arabiya’s English website team in journalism basics, components of news stories and tested their general knowledge in politics, geography, history and mathematics. Exercises included strengthening story leads, avoidance of redundancies, … Continue
Anba Moscow/Ria Novosti Journalists Upgrade Agency Online Skills
Seven journalists at Anba Moscow’s Dubai bureau underwent intensive training to upgrade their skills for the website maintained in Arabic by the Russian news agency Ria Novosti. The journalists, who come from diverse backgrounds, attended a five-day workshop in October … Continue