Business journalism trainers trained
Monday, 11 January 2010
FE Report
For the first time in Bangladesh, a core group of trainers on business journalism has been developed under a non-government initiative aiming at long-term capacity development of media houses of the country.
The initiative took final shape Saturday with the conclusion of a 10-day Training of Trainers on Business Journalism concluded in two phases at CCDB Hope Centre, Savar.
The Management and Resources Development Initiative (MRDI) organised the training under a project titled 'Training of Trainers on Business Journalism', supported by Katalyst.
The residential course were participated by 15 business/economic reporters of national print and electronic media who will act as in-house trainers to train up their colleagues.
The prospective trainers were imparted practical knowledge to make them able to train others on writing stock market reports, enhancing accountancy skills for better financial reporting, analyzing financial statements of companies, doing research for business and SME reports and all other major aspects relating to business journalism.
Under the project, MRDI targeted to train up one journalist of each major media house as Trainer of Business Journalism and carried out a needs-assessment basing upon which a comprehensive business journalism training module have been developed.
Earlier at the first phase, a weeklong course was held in August using the training modules developed by senior journalists -- Moazzem Hossain, Editor, The Financial Express and Farid Hossain, Bureau Chief, Associated Press (AP), Bangladesh along with Martin Mulligan, Senior Sub-editor and writer, Financial Times, UK and Robert Powell, Financial Journalist, BBC World Service Trust, UK.
During the course a Business Journalism Training Template was developed for individual media houses, which the media, both print and electronic, will use for their own capacity building programmes.
Apart from the training module development team, local resource persons including renowned journalists, business leaders, company representatives, academics, economists, stock exchange analysts, chartered accountants, investment analysts and researchers conducted the course.
For the first time in Bangladesh, a core group of trainers on business journalism has been developed under a non-government initiative aiming at long-term capacity development of media houses of the country.
The initiative took final shape Saturday with the conclusion of a 10-day Training of Trainers on Business Journalism concluded in two phases at CCDB Hope Centre, Savar.
The Management and Resources Development Initiative (MRDI) organised the training under a project titled 'Training of Trainers on Business Journalism', supported by Katalyst.
The residential course were participated by 15 business/economic reporters of national print and electronic media who will act as in-house trainers to train up their colleagues.
The prospective trainers were imparted practical knowledge to make them able to train others on writing stock market reports, enhancing accountancy skills for better financial reporting, analyzing financial statements of companies, doing research for business and SME reports and all other major aspects relating to business journalism.
Under the project, MRDI targeted to train up one journalist of each major media house as Trainer of Business Journalism and carried out a needs-assessment basing upon which a comprehensive business journalism training module have been developed.
Earlier at the first phase, a weeklong course was held in August using the training modules developed by senior journalists -- Moazzem Hossain, Editor, The Financial Express and Farid Hossain, Bureau Chief, Associated Press (AP), Bangladesh along with Martin Mulligan, Senior Sub-editor and writer, Financial Times, UK and Robert Powell, Financial Journalist, BBC World Service Trust, UK.
During the course a Business Journalism Training Template was developed for individual media houses, which the media, both print and electronic, will use for their own capacity building programmes.
Apart from the training module development team, local resource persons including renowned journalists, business leaders, company representatives, academics, economists, stock exchange analysts, chartered accountants, investment analysts and researchers conducted the course.