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| Young journalists from Asian broadcasters meet together AIBD invited EBU to co-organize the first AIBD/EBU Week of the News seminar in Kuala Lumpur on 7-9 April 2008. The Asia-Pacific Institute for Broadcasting Development (AIBD) is the training body for broadcasters in the Asia-Pacific region. In 2004 it was suggested to EBU that the two continents should start working together to harmonize training. Since then activities in journalism and conflict resolution have been scheduled , and it now seems that the dialogue with Europe and Asia is working well. | What the participants said about - "Informative and informal in a good way"
- "Hands on, different, fun !!!"
- Approachable; share knowledge and experience"
- "Teamwork, interactive"
- "Interesting and high quality cooperation"
- "Not theoretical, practice"
- "High level of training technique"
- "Attention to details; real life examples"
- "Practical sessions & knowledge"
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| 32 young journalists and reporters from 15 Asian broadcasters participated in this 3-day training seminar. Most of the Asian countries were represented. |
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TODAY’S BROADCAST NEWS “Since 1999, EBU International Training has organized nine Week of the News seminars in Europe. The most important aspect of the seminar is the gathering of young journalists from all over Europe and the sharing of ideas and experiences. We wish to get together a vibrant, lively group of young professionals anxious to dream, challenge and achieve. Over a nine-year period we have seen people who originally attended as ‘rookie’ journalists now returning as senior editors with national broadcasters. The most important response is that participants realise that the problems they face in their profession are not new and have been encountered and overcome by others. It is obvious that the opportunity for “questions & answers” in each module and the informal interactivity over the three days allows a more focussed response to the queries of participants. There is truth in the old Irish saying that “a problem shared is a problem halved”. Nathalie Labourdette,
Head, EBU International Training
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| Some participants expectations: - "I hope to write a report in a more creative way I think we are a little too institutional."
- "I am a radio reporter and I expect from the seminar to get new skills in writing news and identify technical techniques."
- "I want to be able to understand how news work in other countries."
- "Safety and security is a top priority as Sri Lanka is a very dangerous environment."
- "I would like to share experience with everybody"
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 | The AIBD/EBU objectives: - to get an overview of main issues facing broadcast news today,
- to get practical methods for covering breaking news,
- to get methods for safety and security of broadcast journalists,
- to get techniques for video journalists – VJ’s,
- to get investigative journalism techniques.
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Seminar content The 3-day seminar was structured into half-day sessions. The first morning session set the scene: How to better understand the impact of television news on audiences. Though discussions and practical exercices participants got techniques to identify strengths and weaknesses of their media. On day 2 and 3, the morning sessions focused on specific practical issues in journalism such as Breaking Newsand Investigative Journalism. The participants exercised their skills in role plays based on sophisticated scenarios. For the afternoon sessions, the journalists were split into 3 groups. Each group attended one of the following workshops and rotated each day: Workshop 1
Safety and security
animated by Tony Loughran | Workshop 2
Video Journalism
animated by Jacob Kwon Henriksen | Workshop 3
Visual storytelling
animated by Eric May | | | |
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