BBC to expand training for Bangladeshi journalists

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FE Report
The BBC will expand its training programmes to Bangladesh in future to help Bangladeshi journalists develop their capacity, enabling them prepare better reports on economic and development issues.
"We'll be expanding our training programmes to Bangladesh in the foreseeable future," Kevin Burden, head of training of BBC World Service Trust, told at a brainstorming discussion in the city Wednesday.
Media Watch on Development and Globalisation (MWDG) in collaboration with the World Bank organised the session on "Reporting in the context of globalisation" at the bank's Dhaka office.
Burden, who is now in the city on a weeklong tour, pointed out that his trust would devise a mechanism to make journalism training sustainable.
The trust chief said the Bangladeshi media is an expanding industry and called it "vibrant and healthy."
But he regretted that journalists in this country "work in uncertain economic and political circumstances."
He also advised local journalists to elevate their status as knowledge workers in the utmost competitive global media industry.
Among others, Ivan Sigal, regional director of Internews, and Rezwan Alam, senior communications officer of World Bank, spoke at the session.
Alam said the bank would facilitate 'electronic' training sessions for local journalists to be conducted by world-renowned media think tanks.
A Z M Anas, coordinator of MWDG, moderated the session, also addressed by its trustee members Zamal Uddin, Abu Kawser and Salahuddin Bablu.
Some 20 journalists from the print media attended the brainstorming session on the issues that affect their work.