Trainings for media personnel begins
Twenty-four young reporters from print, television and radio media houses are attending an intensive course on basic journalism that began in the capital yesterday.
The five-day course by trainers from India will cover topics ranging from the art of storytelling, planning, research, the essential of news reporting to, writing for online, basics of sub editing, social responsibility, nature and characteristics of news, interviewing skills and techniques to ethics and morality in journalism. Most participants are those who have worked in the media for six months to two years.
With the basic course begins a series of trainings the Bhutan Media Foundation has organised for media personnel. Starting yesterday until August 12, a total of 135 participants will be trained on basic news reporting, writing course for dzongkha reporters, intensive editing course for English and Dzongkha editors and an intensive course on marketing management for media, circulation and marketing managers.
Out of the total, 18 participants are from the open category, which include freelance reporters and graduates who intend to pursue a career in the media.
“These trainings have been especially custom designed to meet the current challenges faced by Bhutanese media professionals,” the foundation’s executive director Lilly Wangchuk said. “It is held for currently serving editors, reporters, circulation and marketing executives in various media organisations.”
The editing course will talk about the responsibility and changing role of editors, fundamentals of an editor as a leader, forward planning, research, types and styles of scripting, story writing techniques and methods, importance of referencing, qualities of a good editor, sub editing, coordination, role and selection of stringers to media ethics and responsibility.
While the marketing and circulation course covers potential sources of revenue for a news agency, managing circulation, do’s and don’ts in public relation, advertising models and deals to negotiation skills.
The courses are conducted in both English and Dzongkha by experienced three national trainers and seven foreign trainers from the 9.9 School of Convergence, New Delhi, India.
By Namgay Tshoki in Kuensel