Dates: September 6 to October 1, 2010
Location: Cardiff
This extensive one-month course will equip journalists with the essential techniques and confidence they need to thrive in tomorrow’s fast-changing digital world. The focus is on the journalist’s ability to build an interactive relationship with audiences and communities using powerful, practical multimedia tools.
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Course Duration: Four weeks
Dates: September 6 to October 8 , 2010
Location: Cardiff
This highly-practical course will develop the skills and confidence needed to excel as a photographer working with newspapers, magazines and online media.
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Duration: Four weeks
Location: Cardiff
Dates: October 4 to October 29, 2010
Print remains one of the most influential media sectors worldwide. This course is designed for journalists who have a passion for keeping it that way.
At the same time, the challenges facing print journalists have never been greater, as the media world continues its dramatic pace of change. What this programme will also do is prepare journalists for life in a converged media environment.
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Duration: Four weeks
Location: Cardiff
Dates: October 4 to October 29
With a reputation as one of the most prestigious and intensive television training courses of its kind, the Television Skills Programme is designed to test and expand the skills of professionals worldwide.
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By Helen Scott and Martin Huckerby
As the flip chart filled with an ever-increasing list of dangers, threats and resource issues, we began to realise just how tough is to be a journalist in the Niger Delta.
Martin Huckerby and I were running a five-day course for journalists in Lagos. And although we were in the comfort of a hotel, there was no escaping the challenges faced by our group. How do you report safely from an area that’s home to gun-toting militants?
As one reporter told us: “I’m not insured to go to the scene when a pipeline is sabotaged. I have to do it on the phone.” Others turned out regardless, but put flak jackets on their wish list.
The course, sponsored by Nigeria LNG, a gas company, had opened with a glittering array of the country’s senior media stars in attendance. The morning of speeches brought many comments about the vibrancy of the Nigerian media, but also self-criticism about media standards.
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Thomson Foundation trainers and consultants have worked with thousands of media professionals and organizations around the world. Here four of them give a taste of their work.
It was November, 2000, in Belgrade, shortly after the fall of the Serbian President,
Slobodan Milosevic; a country wrecked by civil wars; a broadcasting centre bombed by Nato; thousands of broadcasting staff displaced and confused.
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