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2013 was another strong year for the Thomson Reuters Foundation journalism training programme, which runs courses in a range of journalistic disciplines in London and around the world.
2013 was another strong year for the Thomson Reuters Foundation journalism training programme, which runs courses in a range of journalistic disciplines in London and around the world. We ran over 40 courses for around 500 journalists from all continents, in addition to the training taking place within dedicated projects such as Aswat Masriya and The Source. Our training courses focussed on areas such as photo journalism, investigative journalism, and reporting women’s issues.
One new development is the Foundation’s 'Backpack journalism' course, run for the first time in Guatemala in 2013, and since run in London and Tbilisi, Georgia. This course capitalises on the increasing ease of video journalism, and trains participants in the full process of video production using portable equipment.
We also continued our 'Reporting women' courses, training journalists how to tell women's stories and ensure women's voices are heard within mainstream news. In London we ran a course trained by Mariane Pearl, award-winning journalist and founder of the Chime for Change campaign and platform. And in Beirut, we designed a course on 'Reporting women’s issues in the Arab world', which took place at Lebanese American University. The course was attended by journalists from eight Arab countries, and was partly based on new research commissioned by the Foundation looking at laws and constitutional rights in 15 Arab countries and how they relate to women.
2013 also saw the beginning of a partnership with the International Monetary Fund, resulting in business journalism training courses taking place in countries such as Suriname, Cambodia, South Sudan, Lesotho, and Myanmar. And we continued our relationship with the International Fund for Agricultural Development, running a workshop on rural poverty reporting for journalists in Jakarta.
As well as running courses in London, we ran courses in Bolivia, Paraguay, Morocco, China, Vietnam and Ethiopia – to name a few. In 2014, there will be many more journalism training courses, including:
- Making video news – Miami – 13-17 Jan 2014
- Writing and Reporting news – London – 10-14 Feb 2014
- Writing Financial and Business News – London – 3-7 Mar 2014
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