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There's always room to learn more - even at well-established TV channels.
Thomson Reuters Foundation has just finished providing a video training course for journalists from a leading news channel in Ghana. TV reporters, camera operators, sound engineers and editors from the news department of the highly rated TV3 channel attended the course in the country’s capital city, Accra.
Most of those who attended the five-day course are based at the channel’s headquarters in the capital, but some work in other regions of the country. Most of them were general news reporters but the group also included reporters specialising in business and sport.
The course was taught by former Reuters Editor of Television Production, Lloyd Watson, who now works as a UK-based international media consultant and Gabriela Matthews, who works as a Producer and Video Journalist for Reuters in West Africa. She is currently based in Dakar, Senegal.
The journalists spent the week studying and discussing all aspects of video news production including news gathering, camerawork, scripting, interviewing, editing and appearing on camera as well as reviewing ethics and codes of conduct.
The week’s lectures and exercises were based on the Foundation's highly popular and successful Making Video News course, which has been taught to thousands of TV journalists worldwide. Usually the course is taught to journalists from a number of news channels in one group but this one was tailored to suit the specific needs of TV3.
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