Thomson Reuters Foundation Health Reporting Funded Training Workshops

Thomson Reuters Foundation Health Reporting Funded Training Workshops

Thomson Reuters Foundation is organizing a two-week online training workshop aimed at providing journalists With the skills and information needed to better understand the most important health issues and how to cover them.

The training workshop will focus on advanced breast cancer and sickle cell anemia, as well as the effects of the spread of Covid-19 disease on health care systems in the region.

The workshop, held under the auspices of Novartis, will strive to connect journalists with experts and enable them to communicate with their peers from across the Arab world.

The course will include a mixture of interactive electronic sessions, meetings with experts and specialists, discussions, practical exercises and simulations, with the aim of gaining an enjoyable work experience.

The content includes investigative techniques, journalistic interviews and news gathering, and how to choose the different angles of press reports.

The workshop will cover the challenges journalists face covering public health topics, including ethical considerations when conducting interviews with at-risk people and covering sensitive issues.

Journalists will also learn how to detect and avoid the transmission of misleading information.

They see the latest progress and research conducted to uncover new treatments for the most common diseases. And on ways to simplify scientific terms and put data in the correct context.

Journalists are expected to write high-impact topics that rely on fact-based evidence and impartial analysis. These topics will be published through the media platforms in which they work.

In the first week, the group will participate daily in a 90-minute live video session with trainers and / or expert speakers to ask questions, exchange ideas and learn and practice new skills.

Participants are to be given practical exercises after the session at the end of each day.

An exclusive closed forum will be established to hold ongoing discussions on lessons learned, exchange of advice and interaction among group members.

In the second week of the program, journalists will have daily access to trainers to guide them on writing their topics.

Program Schedule

7-11 June