Telling an Impactful Story on EU issues: Training for Broadcast and Online Journalists from Jordan.

On 16-18 September 2018 2018 , the OPEN Media Hub is organising a 3-day workshop on Telling an Impactful  Story on EU Issues for Jordanian TV and online journalists. The course will focus on editorial, writing and editing skills.

During the course, participating journalists will focus on producing in real time, with existing materials available online and in-country, a story with a specific angle on an EU-funded project or activity. They will produce appealing and informative  stories editorially relevant to their outlets in a format pertinent for news broadcasts and online publication.  The stories will be broadcast/published on the outlets and will be made available on the OPEN Media Hub’s platform and website, for exchange between participants locally and internationally.

These editorial sessions are conceived to build and enhance the skills of the media professionals and their outlets. The training will empower them to understand the basics of EU decision making and encourage participants to embed EU coverage as an editorial strand of their content with a practical approach to identifying relevant elements and sources of information, data, and video and understanding of the resources available to tell a story on a project funded by the European Union. The training will include dentifying the online remote and local resources, available for coverage and  a hands on Follow the Money exercise.

The trainers will be Raghid Bahnam and Simon Hustings, supported locally by Nihad Jariri from the Jordan Media Institute.

Journalists will pitch a story to be selected to attend, on topics and themes based on country projects and priorities. During the training, participating crews are asked to provide their own filming and editing gear.