Doha: A training course ‘Writing and Editing News in English for Beginners’ started at Qatar News Agency offices yesterday as part of a series of programmes organised by the Department of Foreign Media Affairs to rehabilitate and train Qatari cadres in the media field. The five-day training, which has brought together trainees from ministries and state institutions, aims to provide participants with news writing skills and means of gathering and evaluating information for news stories for wider public.
The course, being conducted by Dr Fayez Mencher Al Zafiri, Adviser at Kuwait’s Ministry of Information, also seeks to enable participants to acquire basic skills of news coverage of societies and writing and editing, focusing on news reporting and press writing skills.
Trainees will have opportunity to understand the media profession, the code of ethics, including the importance of diversity, and basic elements of digital news story, acquire skills to write major stories in eight to 10 paragraphs.
They will also learn how to write short stories using appropriate descriptions, details and quotations along with means of conducting better interviews.
Regular training by QNA is in implementation to the Emiri decision No. 51 of 2009, which entrusted the agency with the task of providing training to Qatari media persons to improve their performance through training and development programmes.
QNA
Doha: A training course ‘Writing and Editing News in English for Beginners’ started at Qatar News Agency offices yesterday as part of a series of programmes organised by the Department of Foreign Media Affairs to rehabilitate and train Qatari cadres in the media field. The five-day training, which has brought together trainees from ministries and state institutions, aims to provide participants with news writing skills and means of gathering and evaluating information for news stories for wider public.
The course, being conducted by Dr Fayez Mencher Al Zafiri, Adviser at Kuwait’s Ministry of Information, also seeks to enable participants to acquire basic skills of news coverage of societies and writing and editing, focusing on news reporting and press writing skills.
Trainees will have opportunity to understand the media profession, the code of ethics, including the importance of diversity, and basic elements of digital news story, acquire skills to write major stories in eight to 10 paragraphs.
They will also learn how to write short stories using appropriate descriptions, details and quotations along with means of conducting better interviews.
Regular training by QNA is in implementation to the Emiri decision No. 51 of 2009, which entrusted the agency with the task of providing training to Qatari media persons to improve their performance through training and development programmes.
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