Training needs assessment for journalists begins this week
Freetown – For the first time in the 38-year history of SLAJ, the association will this week start a comprehensive training needs assessment of journalists in the country. The first phase of that takes place at the conference hall of its headquarters in Freetown on 2 – 3 March 2010.
This stage of the assessment will train twelve research assistants, all of them journalists, who will work with expert researchers that have been provided by the Network Movement for Justice and Development (NMJD) for a nationwide training needs survey. Each of the country’s four geographical areas will send three journalists for this week’s training who will help the experts when they start the survey proper in the coming weeks.
“The needs assessment, which has been at the heart of my executive, is aimed at pinpointing the required training needs of journalists so as to enable SLAJ come up with the requisite and comprehensive blueprint on what type of training is needed for media practitioners,†says SLAJ President, Umaru Fofana. He said the idea of institutions coming up with perceived and second-guessed trainings for journalists had not adequately enhanced their skills; something he said needed to be redirected.
The media training needs assessment is almost entirely funded by NMJD, a civil society advocacy organization.
Sayoh Kamara, Publicity Secretary, SLAJ. For further details, please contact the SLAJ Publicity Secretary, Mr Sayoh Kamara on Telephone N umber 076 622 501.Stay with Sierra Express Media, for your trusted place in news!
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