Twelve more journalists attended a new-style financial and business news workshop in London in March and will soon join the first group from November in tackling various online training modules.
Reporters from Bangladesh, Brazil, China, Egypt, Indonesia, Kenya, Malawi, Myanmar, Nepal, Nigeria, Peru and Ukraine covered a wide range of issues during the one-week Thomson Reuters Foundation workshop, the first stage of their journey through our new training format.
Discussions and exercises included journalists’ role in the financial crisis, ethics in reporting, steering the economy, thinking like an investor, working with numbers, company news, stock markets and commodity news.
As participants worked on a writing exercise about the impact of an earthquake on copper supplies in the imaginary but realistic emerging market country of Transitland, a Reuters headline in the real world read, “Chile mines reopen after quake, power coming back”.
Participants held a lively videoconference on trade issues with Keith Rockwell, spokesman of the World Trade Organization in Geneva, and witnessed lively trading on the London Metal Exchange and the buzz of the Thomson Reuters newsroom.
Thomson Reuters Foundation CEO Monique Villa explained to the group the Foundation’s new, first-of-its-kind Emergency Information Service ('EIS'), operating in Haiti after the earthquake there.
“The course has given me a wider view on subjects. So I hope to be able to see and apply different angles to my stories,” one participant commented afterwards.
The workshop was led by former Reuters journalists Roger Jeal and Richard Waddington.
Our Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.
