AJMI - Doha

Al Jazeera e-Learning Platform held a graduation ceremony for the second edition of Digital Media Diploma which took six months of training recording a success rate of 89%. A total of 46 trainees enrolled in this diploma, where 41 successfully completed the program of this edition. The top-ranked graduate achieved an overall average of 96.91%.

The diploma consists of nine courses, totaling more than 515 training hours. These were distributed across various learning activities, including 15 hours of self-paced learning, 128 hours of live sessions and 372 hours dedicated to discussion forums. Each trainee completed 18 practical assignments, an average of two assignments per course, and participated in 162 assessments designed to measure learning outcomes.

The diploma program began with a course on Mobile Journalism, followed by a second course introducing to fundamentals of writing for social media platforms. In the third course, trainees developed own skills for producing digital explanatory stories, and in the fourth course they were trained on leveraging artificial intelligence tools in digital content creation.

The diploma also included courses in Data Journalism, Open-Source Investigations, Podcasting, Building Social Media Strategies and journalism ethics in digital age, culminating in final graduation projects.

Graduation projects were divided into three main categories, through which trainees produced 10 digital explanatory stories, 29 podcasts and vodcasts and two data-enhanced stories.

It is worth noting that participants in this diploma represented 13 countries: Palestine, Jordan, Yemen, Syria, Sudan, Egypt, Lebanon, Ethiopia, Oman, Iran, Kuwait, Mauritania and Morocco.