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Well it looks like summer is over in London, so while our programme coordinator, Will makes one last escape to a festival, this week we’ve been splitting our time between our current course participants and projects further afield.
This week our Director Jo Weir has been in Egypt working with our local partners on our upcoming Egyptian Elections Website and programme of elections reporting courses. The website is looking great, and Jo’s been meeting with lots of interested organisations out there; we’re looking forward to hearing all of her first-hand news on the project, which should help us progress with similar projects that we’re looking to launch across the Arab world. Jo will also be heading off to Zimbabwe to work on the Independent Zimbabwean Financial and Business News Service that we’ll be creating in partnership with European Journalism Centre (EJC), preliminarily named ‘The Source’. Check back for more information on this soon!
Back in London, this week we’ve been running our ‘Writing Financial and Business News’ course. We’ve had a great time getting to know the 11 participants who have come from all over the world, and hope that they’ve enjoyed their experience here. Each day we’ve had a different participant blogging about their experiences on the course, you can read them here, and while you’re there, check out one of our trainer’s excellent account of egg throwing, hare chasing and other political matters during TRF’s media training for parliamentary officials in Ukraine.
We’re looking forward to the arrival of students from Misr International University (MIU) in Cairo on Monday, who will be with us for a week-long ‘Writing Business News’ course; we’ll try to get them blogging next week so you can read about their experiences of TrustMedia training.
Last of all, we’ve been getting lots of news in from our content partners, and we hope to have even more feeds coming in the next couple of weeks, so keep checking back for news on the state of the media and journalism.
Until next week!
TrustMedia team
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