Qatar educators learn to integrate media literacy into curricula
Seventy-eight Qatar-based educators from 42 schools took part in media literacy workshops in October 2012 to become more communicative by engaging their students across various platforms. “I really enjoyed this workshop that helped expand my horizons regarding media literacy,” said … Continue
KUNA Journalists Learn How to Become Foreign Correspondents
Six Kuwait News Agency (KUNA) journalists were plunged into an intensive workshop on how to become foreign correspondents, including risks involved, news priorities, the organization and management of foreign bureaus, and how to tie their overseas coverage to local events. … Continue
MU Empowers UAE WAM Journalists With New Skills
Media Unlimited director Magda Abu-Fadil spent two weeks in Abu Dhabi and Sharjah, respectively, with journalists of the United Arab Emirates’ WAM news agency to help them upgrade their skills The training included best practices for news agencies, the integration … Continue
Media Unlimited Trains Gulf Journalists on Crises/Conflicts Coverage
Crises and conflicts – a topic all journalists should learn to cover since they inevitably encounter them in their work at some point. Media Unlimited conducted a five-day workshop grouping reporters and editors from Kuwait and Oman on how to … Continue
MU Hones SAT-7 Staffers’ Journalistic Skills
Media Unlimited (MU) conducted a workshop for staffers of the TV channel SAT-7 to hone their skills in public affairs programming and basic journalistic techniques. MU director Magda Abu-Fadil and training manager Sanaa Aljack provided an intensive course April 10-11, … Continue
Training in Moscow – Ria Novosti Arabic service
Media Unlimited extended its reach to Moscow where training manager Sanaa Aljack conducted a workshop for journalists at the Arabic service of the Ria Novosti news agency to upgrade its journalists’ skills. The four-day drills on accuracy, objectivity, fairness, balance, … Continue
MU promotes media literacy at Lebanese high school
Media Unlimited director Magda Abu-Fadil conducted a seminar for some 200 seniors at the Two Sacred Hearts high school to brief them on the media’s evolution from the 1950s to the digital age, since most were unfamiliar with their uses … Continue
MU–HBMEU cooperation afoot following media awards/workshop
Media Unlimited director Magda Abu-Fadil and Training Manager Sanaa El Jack attended the ceremony for the Pan Arab Quality Media Awards, administered by the Hamdan bin Mohammed e-University (HBMEU) in Dubai on February 1, 2012, on whose jury they serve, … Continue
Gender-based violence workshop wraps up JTP training projects
The JTP’s swan song was a five-day workshop in November-December 2011 during which Lebanese journalists learned about the issue and what impact it has on society. The training, sponsored by the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), included reporters from Hamzet … Continue
Public health training for journalists
The JTP partnered with the Sanofi-Aventis pharmaceutical firm and AUB’s Faculty of Health Sciences to conduct training for 23 Lebanese journalists in October 2011. Dr. Rana Barazi, a public health expert, explained how medical issues needed proper coverage to create … Continue