INDEPENDENT MEDIA CENTRE KURDISTAN

The TV group of Media bo Khalk, the post graduate training of IMCK, started on a second international week of TV making. Al Jazeera reporter Mustafa Zriad returned to Kurdistan to train the group on interview and reportage. Zriad will work with the TV group for 5 days, and make them work in a very practical way. He starts off where TV trainer Karin Greep left off a couple of weeks ago, making sure the students have a good basic knowledge and improve their basic skills. The training was made possible through sponsoring by the Doha Centre for Media Freedom, DC4MF.

Al Jazeera journalist Mustapha Zraid started on September 23, 2011 a five day workshop on TV reportage and interview for TV-journalists from Arabic Iraqi TV stations. The workshop is the second in cooperation and coordination with the Doha Centre for Media Freedom (DC4MF). Participants come from all over Iraq; they work for stations in Baghdad, Basra, Dijala and Kirkuk. The workshop will focuss on how to make reportage about people, and about issues that are important for people.

In the newsroom of Kurdsat TV in Sulaymaniya started on October 14, 2009 an on the job training. Kurdsat is an important satellite channel and the main station of the political party PUK. It employs approximately 300 people. The newsroom staff will be trained for five days by Hasssan Rachidi. He has been working as a journalist for Al-Jazeera for a long period of years, both in the field and at the desk, producing news items. He will join the Kurdsat staff during the work progress and give them advice on the most important aspects of TV journalism as well as on news production and news flow. The aim of the training is to teach the staff to work more professional and efficiently.