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Newsroom Workshop
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 Opening of the Reuters Newsroom. Left to right: Maureen Marlowe, Ghazi Aridi, George Najjar and John Waterbury. |
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from different parts of the Middle East can now get together at the Reuters
newsroom on the AUB campus to further their knowledge and learn new journalistic
methods. The official opening of the Reuters Newsroom took place on January 25, 2002 at Ada Dodge Memorial Hall. President John Waterbury, Prime Minister Rafic Hariri, Reuters' Editor-in-Chief Geert Linnebank, and Director of Reuters Foundation Maureen Marlowe took part in the ceremony. Reuters Foundation, the local Reuters office, and Regional External Programs at AUB all contributed to the formation of the newsroom. Location and technical support are provided by AUB, |
chosen
for its "reputation as a center of excellence and its convenient location,"
Jo Weir, project manager of Reuters Foundation, explained. Reuters supplies
the live news service for training and Reuters Foundation sponsors the fourteen
workstations and funds newsroom equipment. Modeled after the newsroom in Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa, the newsroom at AUB will offer professional journalists training in various subjects, the first of which was Writing Business News, held January 21-25 at the School of Business. The newsroom is "open to professional, working journalists from all over the Middle East region," Mr. Weir said, |
adding,
"All Reuters Foundations workshops are aimed at professionals as opposed
to students." However, in the future, Weir said, the foundation may
hold occasional lectures by visiting journalists. Reuters plans to hold four workshops a year, usually lasting one week. The next one in May is on Environmental Journalism. Future topics include Writing International News, Post Conflict Journalism, Television News, Photojournalism, and News Graphics. Marie Maroun |
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