INDEPENDENT MEDIA CENTRE KURDISTAN

Sunday June 10, IMCK organized a workshop consisting of five days on developing basic expertise in news-journalism in TV to improve the quality of journalism in Mosul. Nynke la Porte from the Netherlands was the trainer of the workshop in Erbil, the capital of Iraqi Kurdistan. Mazen Tayar, a journalist from Basra, assisted as co-trainer. The practical focus during the workshop was on how to make a good news-item for television. In this workshop Mosul journalists of different backgrounds not only met each other and were introduced to some practical knowledge about journalism, but at the same time they were taught how to integrate different perspectives and sources in their reports. The workshop aims to boost the expertise of the attending journalists and to create an awareness of the role media can play within the complex situation of Mosul and of the consequences reports can have in the often intense situation. Mosul is the hotbed of Iraq, where Kurds, Arabs, Turkmen and th...

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.

Presentors, editor and journalists at Kurdsat TV in Sulaymaniya on April 9 finished a five day workshop on interviewing and presenting. Dutch TV-reporter and actor Paul Grijpma also practised with them how to make a reportage and a good voice-over. ,,You are lucky in Kurdistan, to have news on every street corner'', Grijpma told his students, ,,I wish we had that in Holland too!'' His workshop was very practical, with a lot of exercises and almost real life situations. All ten participants succesfully practised the 'stand-upper', inside and on the spot, always with the camera running and to be commented on afterwards.