The aim of the workshop is to enable participants to familiarize themselves with the peculiarities and challenges of online journalism, to identify news and current affairs topics suitable for websites and suited to various target audiences, and to plan, research and write online articles dealing with current affairs topics.

The basics, ethics and strategies for web journalism were the core subjects of a regional workshop attended recently by ten participants from Maldives, Mongolia, Myanmar, Nepal, Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam. Jointly organised by AIBD and Deutsche Welle (DW-AKADEMIE) the workshop began on 25 February 2007 and ended on 14 March 2007 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

The workshop covered the following areas: Journalism in Society, Journalist ethics, the basic principles of Web Journalism, writing online articles, the lead-principles of writing news, planning a website, writing and creating online dossier, how to do online research efficiently with tips, tricks and strategies, compiling a photo gallery and news articles, how to produce videos for the internet, producing a video and news articles, how to produce audio for the internet Pod casts and audio-blogs, group discussions, exercises and presentations.

The workshop raised concerns about media ethics in the online world. IT also discussed the following questions:What differences are there between online articles and newspaper articles or radio scripts? What do the users expect? What elements does an online article have? How do you write a good online article? And: what does "Web 2.0" mean for our work as web-journalists?

During the workshop, the trainers used Metaplan techniques, group work, discussions and role-play. These methods attracted the participants' interest all the time and kept the lessons lively. The group discussions were interesting as participants shared ideas and knowledge.They felt the workshop gave them confidence to engage in web journalism, describing it as a success.

The media trainers and consultants were Mr. Thorsten Karg, Project Manager / Media Trainer, Mr. Kyle James, Media-Trainer / Journalist and Mr. Daniel Hirschler, Media-Trainer /Journalist from Deutsche Welle (DWAKADEMIE).

Last updated 17.09.08 23:41 by Lisa