The course will cover research, interviewing skills, ethics, and presentation. The course will provide practical reporting and research skills training, as well as field production training.
After the course, participants will be required to return to their stations and produce feature documentaries. This aspect of the training will require journalists to put their skills to work in their own communities, to gather information and record interviews of victims of rights violations, the legal community and rights activists.
The programs will focus on rights issues within a local context. Programs may cover issues like honor killing, child labor, human trafficking, and illiteracy and malnutrition among women. Producers will send their programs to Internews in Islamabad for evaluation.
Internews Resident Journalism Advisor and the Training and Technical Coordinators will lead the training effort.
The program will address the two major hurdles currently faced by the media in Pakistan: (i) Lack of in-depth reporting and investigative journalism, and (ii) Content generation.
By the end of the three sessions, at least 10 hours of broadcast-quality programming will have been produced.
Stations that are most committed to producing high quality news and information will be given first priority in the selection of participants.
Internews will award MiniDisc recorders to those stations that have produced the best documentaries. This will enable journalists who complete the course to continue to produce in-depth reporting when they return to their stations.
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