National News Agency
A virtual Zoom meeting was held on Wednesday between Caretaker Minister of Information, Manal Abdel Samad Najd, and Communication & Information Officer at UNESCO, George Awad.
The meeting discussed the launch of training courses for media professionals, touching on modern topics that keep pace with modern technologies, including media coverage in light of the Coronavirus pandemic, awareness on the virus and the vaccine, news coverage ethics, hate speech, as well as combating rumors and fake news.
Abdel Samad praised the ongoing cooperation between the Ministry of Information and UNESCO. She pointed out the importance of conducting training courses for media professionals on a regular basis, especially in times of crises.
Abdel Samad shone light on three basic points in the upcoming training courses between both sides, namely the importance of taking into account that training courses cover current topics and basic modern skills, identifying the targeted trainees, and selecting prominent local and international figures and media professionals to carry out the training mission.
She then wished of universities to enroll media students in the impending training courses.
For his part, Awad said that deciding on organizing training courses during this period was based on several perspectives, “the first of which is that media professionals have more free time on their hands due to the change in their working hours — amid the new work pattern imposed by the pandemic.”
Details about the training courses will be announced soon, accompanied by a request to fill out a form in three languages Arabic, French, and English via a special link in the media training field on the Ministry of Information’s website. The first session will start in February, 2021.
The meeting discussed the launch of training courses for media professionals, touching on modern topics that keep pace with modern technologies, including media coverage in light of the Coronavirus pandemic, awareness on the virus and the vaccine, news coverage ethics, hate speech, as well as combating rumors and fake news.
Abdel Samad praised the ongoing cooperation between the Ministry of Information and UNESCO. She pointed out the importance of conducting training courses for media professionals on a regular basis, especially in times of crises.
Abdel Samad shone light on three basic points in the upcoming training courses between both sides, namely the importance of taking into account that training courses cover current topics and basic modern skills, identifying the targeted trainees, and selecting prominent local and international figures and media professionals to carry out the training mission.
She then wished of universities to enroll media students in the impending training courses.
For his part, Awad said that deciding on organizing training courses during this period was based on several perspectives, “the first of which is that media professionals have more free time on their hands due to the change in their working hours — amid the new work pattern imposed by the pandemic.”
Details about the training courses will be announced soon, accompanied by a request to fill out a form in three languages Arabic, French, and English via a special link in the media training field on the Ministry of Information’s website. The first session will start in February, 2021.
