ISLAMABAD, Pakistan: A special training program was arranged for electronic and print media journalists with the purpose to educate them regarding gender sensitive reporting, democracy, governance, development and conflict sensitive journalism.
A non-governmental organization Individualland Pakistan (IL-Pakistan) organized the training program, which recently started working on an International Media Support (IMS) supported initiative titled Support to Media in Pakistan.
The IMS is the lead agency in implementing the program which is administered and funded by the Danish Embassy in Pakistan. Under the initiative organization conducted Training of Trainers (TOT) on four thematic areas development journalism, conflict sensitive journalism, gender sensitive reporting and democracy and governance.
In the trainings, journalists were trained as Master Trainers and then these Master Trainers conducted five day boot camp training for journalists on the thematic areas in Karachi, Peshawar, D.I.Khan and Hyderabad.
Participants were of the view that these thematic areas are very important and essential for modern day journalism. They further said that government and media house owners also need to arrange such training as it very beneficial for journalists.
“I have never attended such training before, through this training I have learnt a lot of new things regarding democracy and governance and the other thematic areas and such trainings should also be held in the future” said a participant attending at the training.
Nasir Hussain, Aqsa Junejo, Nasir Hussain, Fazal ur Rehman, Akhtar Javed Shah and Manzoor Soomro were the moderators at the training organized by IL Pakistan in various parts of the country.
