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Great Lakes Media Institute conducts journalism training courses in Rwanda


from the International Journalists’ Network:
http://www.ijnet.org/Director.aspx?P=Article&ID=305852

Rwandan government pledges support for journalism training

Country: Rwanda
Topic: Investigative Reporting, Photojournalism

An official from the Rwandan government has pledged the administration’s support to media assistance organizations working to train journalists in the country.

Speaking at the close of a recent five-day training course in Kigali, the Minister of Information in the Prime Minister’s Office, professor Laurent Nkusi urged participating journalists to apply what they had learned, according to the New Times of Kigali.

The course was sponsored by the Open Society Institute, the World Press Institute and the Great Lakes Media Institute and provided investigative reporting and photojournalism training to 15 local reporters and five photographers.

The trainers were Sally Stapleton, a former executive photo editor with the Associated Press; Paul McEnroe, a reporter with the Star Tribune; and Ron Nixon, the projects editor of computer assisted reporting at the New York Times.

For more information, visit http://allafrica.com/stories/200612180859.html.



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