AJMI - Doha

Al Jazeera Media Institute held a training program consists of five specialized media courses targeting 77 male and female trainees from Faculty of Mass Communication at the Lebanese University. The objective of the program is to enhance professional skills of next generation of media professionals, focusing on recent developments in media field and journalistic work methods.

The training programs represent a part of Al Jazeera Ambassadors Initiative various activities which include basic and professional topics. Journalist Nadim Al-Mallah supervised and trained Mobile Journalism course, where he dealt with how to use smartphones in producing media content that keeps pace with the requirements of digital media. Meanwhile, journalist Bilal Benabid supervised news bulletins production course, where he reviewed news bulletin preparation mechanisms in a professional manner that match with news channels’ standards. 

In the field of field work, trainers Ihab Al-Oqdi and Elie Barkhia supervised and trained TV Reporter course, where they focused on the skills of preparing field reports and transmitting news from the site effectively and professionally.
In the field of digital journalism, trainer Bassam Ghaber presented data journalism course, in which he focused on methods of data collection and analysis, and how to use it as a leverage to enrich journalistic content and produce deep and documented stories.

Also, producer Abdulrahman Orabi trained Building a Digital Story, where participants learned techniques for creating attractive digital stories that meet the needs of audience on modern platforms.
In the same context, participants expressed their gratitude for this valuable training opportunity, stressing that these programs contributed to the development of their media skills and opened new horizons for them to understand challenges that face modern journalism.

It is worth noting that Al Jazeera Ambassadors’ initiative of Al Jazeera Media Institute aims to continuously empower emerging media talents, through specialized training programs designed to develop competencies and promote values of professional journalism in Arab region.