The next conference call for AIB Members will be at 1400 GMT (0900 EST/1500CET) on Thursday 8th January 2004.
The conference call allows members to exchange news and information with their peer group and to discuss the current strategy and plans of the AIB.
More details about the conference call have been circulated via e-mail to members.
The AIB Global Media Business Conference took place in London on Tuesday 29 and Wednesday 30 April 2003.
More than 150 people from all over the world attended the event, the first meeting of international television and radio broadcasters since the end of the Iraq war.
You can now order a CD of the proceedings, including the agenda, biographies, a range of the papers presented and edited audio highlights of the final two sessions.
Harris Corporations Broadcast Communications Division has appointed Matt Gillon as the company’s Broadcast Center Manager. Gillon will be responsible for the handling of the day-to-day operations of Harris’ ordering center for over 360 broadcast equipment manufacturers and 30,000 products at the BCD headquarters in Mason, Ohio.
Harris Corporation is a member of the AIB.
Deutsche Welle is streamlining its training and teaching activities with the founding of the DW Academy which came into existence at the beginning of January 2004. DW Academy will act as an umbrella organisation for two existing DW training centres in Bonn for radio and Berlin for television.
The Academy will be training young journalists just starting out on their careers. Plans are also being drawn up to offer intercultural media training for German business people who are to be posted abroad.
The key activity of the DW Academy is the training of broadcasting staff from developing countries. This will be funded by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Co-operation and Development. Gerda Meuer, the newly appointed head of the DW Academy, announced that a special course is being set up for young trainee journalists who live in parts of the world to which DW broadcasts programmes.
Deutsche Welle is a member of the AIB.
Al-Jazeera Channel has launched a Media Training and Development Centre. The centres purpose is to contribute to the development of Arab media in particular and international media in general. The centre is reported to be the first of its kind in the Arab world. It will look at media awareness, provide training, follow theoretical and practical media innovations, prepare studies and public polls on media products, and verify the level of audience interaction with media products. The work of the centre includes print, audio and electronic media. It also offers general programmes for improving media performance.
The centre is situated in Doha and unites experts in different media fields and specialities under its roof, together with a number of international media foundations specializing in media training, such as the British Thomson Foundation and the International Centre for Media Training [CIFAP] in France.
Al-Jazeera is a member of the AIB.