MRDI organises advanced training for journalists
Star Business Report
A two-week long advanced training for journalists on WTO and Bangladesh Trade Policy concluded at the CCDB Hope Centre in Savar on Wednesday. The Management and Resources Development Initiative (MRDI) organised the training under a project titled Open Flow of Info on Trade and Economy (OFITE), supported by the Delegation of the European Commission (EC) in Dhaka, with technical support from the Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD). The residential training was a mixture of theoretical and practical sessions facilitated by local and foreign resource persons. During the training, the participants produced two special newsletters and a 10-minute TV documentary on WTO and Bangladesh. Peter Ungphakorn and Luis V Ople, information officers of WTO Information and Media Relations Division, Geneva, in their presentations put special emphasis on various trade issues, including negotiation process, accessing WTO materials and the role of media in mainstreaming public interest concerns in trade related issues. Elke Pickartz, trainer of the International Institute for Journalism (IIJ), Germany, conducted sessions on writing news, interpretation of trade related data and information, interview techniques and sourcing and gathering of information. Mentor of the project and CPD Executive Director Dr Debapriya Bhattacharya, Research Director Dr Mustafizur Rahman, Zillul Hye Razi, trade adviser of the EC Delegation and Dr Mostafa Abid Khan, deputy chief of the Bangladesh Tariff Commission, conducted several sessions during the training. Other resource persons of this course were Dr Uttam Deb, Dr Fahmida Khatun, Khondaker Golam Moazzem, Syed Saifuddin Hossain and Wasel Bin Shadat of CPD, Farid Hossain, bureau chief, The Associated Press, Syed Ishtiaque Reza, chief news editor, RTV, Inam Ahmed, news editor, The Daily Star, and Shawkat Hossain Masum, business editor of the daily Prothom Alo. Hasibur Rahman, executive director, and Md Sazzad Hossain, Programme & Communications head of MRDI, Peter Ungphakorn of WTO, Elke Pickartz of IIJ, Dr Uttam Deb, Syed Saifuddin Hossain and Nafisa Khaled of CPD attended the concluding session. The certificate giving ceremony will be held in December 2006.
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