INDEPENDENT MEDIA CENTRE KURDISTAN

IMCK trainer Maaike Veen started an on the job training on economic reporting at KNN in Sulaymania. Seven journalists from the Gorran TV-station KNN take part in the workshop that started on Sunday July 4, 2010 and will last 5 days. Veen will teach them the basics of the working of the economy, and will help them find subjects to report on. Veen has trained extensively in Iraqi Kurdistan. She works as a freelancer in London, with the Financial Times, Trouw, de Standaard and others.

IMCK-trainer Maaike Veen started a 5-day workshop with nine of the staff of Awene newspaper, on reporting on economic issues. The training started on Sunday June 21, 2009 at the training hall of IMCK in Sulaymaniya. The workshop should result in a new economics page for Awene. Veen is teaching the Avene-reporters which issues would be interesting for their readers, how te report on them and what business and economic reporting really is about. Awene is an independent weekly newspaper, printed in Sulaymaniya. The training is mainly funded by the Dutch ngo Press Now.