JOURNALISM COURSE FOR AFGHAN JOURNALISTS
A group of 15 Afghan journalists and Government
Media Officers would undergo a Foundation Course in Journalism
at the Indian Institute of Mass Communications, New Delhi in order
to develop a trained manpower to meet challenges of the times
and more so when the image and the events in the country need
to be projected in right perspective and development and reconstruction
efforts of the Government need media and information support.
The Minister of Information and Broadcasting, Smt. Sushma Swaraj
will inaugurate the two-month crash course on Wednesday, August
28, 2002.
The Course is basic in nature and aims at imparting
conceptual and operational skills in relation to the entire process
of news writing and presentation both in the newspapers and the
electronic media. The objective of the course is not only to train
them in all the professional aspects of journalism but also to
equip them to handle the national and international media besides
managing media relations of the Government in an effective manner.
Enhancement of computer related skills would be another essential
part of the course.
Another objective of the training programme would
be to impart training to participants to enable them take up jobs
of correspondents of foreign news organizations. The course is
adequately designed so that skills can be imparted to report economic
and socio-cultural development and processes of change. The participants
will be trained in all the aspects of communication theory and
research methods besides international communication. They would
be given inputs on global media and political, economic, social
and cultural trends of post cold war world order.
The Afghan media was isolated in past few years
and was not able to develop at a time when information revolution
set in. The country has been undergoing one or the other kind
of civil war for over two decades. Now with the advent of new
scenario, development of media has become imperative. The Afghan
Government needs a lot of media and information support to meet
the challenges.
