2 March 2010
More than 20 reporters from every country in Central America attended a two-day Voice of America (VOA) training session on critical health issues related to influenza and natural disasters.
Organized by VOA’s Office of Development in Panama City, Panama, the Feb. 24-25 training exercises included roundtable discussions, analysis and knowledge-sharing by panelists from several International Organizations including the Pan American Health Organization, (PAHO), the United States Agency for International Development and Disaster Assistance (USAID), the United Nations Organization for Food and Agriculture (FAO), and the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA/APHIS), among others.
Topics discussed included the creation of simple and direct messages in cases of critical health emergencies under a possible pandemic and during a natural disaster.
The main focus of the influenza crisis addressed how to inform the population on prevention, containment and information dissemination in the event of a crisis caused by the H1N1 or H5N1 virus. The unique challenges of reaching populations during crises caused by natural disasters (lack of clean water, food and medications) were also covered.
One of the mandates of the Voice of America is to provide training in critical journalism skills around the world, particularly in issues pertaining to health.
24 February 2010
The AIB covered, in its recent edition of The Channel magazine, the International News Safety Institute’s figure of 130 journalists and support staff killed trying to cover the news in 2009.
But new stories from 2010 are once again highlighting the risks for journalists from various dangers. From Haiti reports indicate the death of 26 journalists while Radio Free Europe has the story of a Russian journalist’s death in police custody.
Meanwhile the identification of a photographer among the bodies from the Maguindanao massacre in the Philippines takes last’s death toll yet higher.
These are further reminders, if we needed any, of the debt we owe to those who often risk their lives to help us to make sense of our world.
22 February 2010
AIB is participating in the RadioAsia2010 conference in New Delhi from 22-24 February.
Simon Spanswick, AIB CEO, is chairing the “Top of the Market” session on Tuesday 23rd and is on the panel to discuss “Change Management in the Radio Industry” on Wednesday 24th.
In addition Simon will be attending other sessions and having discussions with key delegates. A briefing will be made available to AIB members after the event. Simon’s comments on the conference can also be tracked in realtime on the AIBnews Twitter account.
RadioAsia2010 Conference brings together leading radio media practitioners, communication specialists, policy makers and academics from across the Asia-Pacific and beyond. With a focus on India, Radio Asia 2010 explores the diversity of the radio scene in Asia, where
new technologies and broadcast regulation regimes are providing greater choices for the radio
industry to become both entertainers and educators of the community. For further details of the conference click here.
The AIB trip to South Asia also involves meetings with key regional broadcasters as part of AIB’s promotion of the 1GOAL campaign to broadcasters across the world.
16 February 2010
1GOAL mobile campaign has Royal launch
In a hard-hitting and passionate speech, HM Queen Rania told an audience of
mobile executives about the need for the industry to support the 1GOAL campaign
that aims to secure primary education for the 72million children worldwide who
miss out at the present.
At Mobile World Congress, HM Queen Rania told more than 1,400 people gathered
in the auditorium that the US$16million spent annually on mobile gambling could
pay for one years education for all the children currently out of school.
1GOAL will be running a major mobile campaign over the months leading up to
the FIFA World Cup, and AIB is contributing to the campaign on the broadcast
side. We are facilitating meetings with broadcasters to get air-time
committed to 1GOAL which will be asking citizens worldwide to sign-up to the
campaign in order to exert pressure on politicians to get the worlds
education-less kids into school.
In New Delhi in late February, AIB will be introducing 1GOAL to radio and
TV broadcasters from across Asia.
9 February 2010
Al Jazeera Network announced its strategic plans for the next three years at a dinner for over 500 staff and attended by of board of directors and 25 heads of foreign bureaus at the Grand Hyatt Hotel in Doha on the 7th February 2010. Entitled COMPASS 2012 This large-scale project is geared towards consolidating the content produced by all Al Jazeera channels and promoting creativity, strategic positioning in the global media industry, and a dynamic environment for Al Jazeera staff to take the Network into the future.
During the past decade journalism has undergone enormous challenges and many changes. As a result news gathering and in-depth journalism has declined worldwide. Compass 2012 aims to consolidate Al Jazeeras content and extend Al Jazeeras standard of professional journalism on all levels. It will widen Al Jazeeras newsgathering reach in order to enhance the networks capacity to cover stories first hand, and to continue to bring original and challenging journalism to the networks viewers.
Sheikh Hamad bin Thamer al-Thani, Chairman of board of directors of Al Jazeera Network officially launched the Compass 2012 project which seeks to encapsulate the Spirit of Al Jazeera across the Network while continuing to build the Networks global audience and penetrate new markets , new regions, and new media platforms. Compass 2012 will seek to establish global benchmarks for independent, trusted, and credible news and information.
Wadah Khanfar Director General of the Al Jazeera Network said The goal of this initiative is to continue to make Al Jazeera Network one of the leading players in the industry and to set the gold standard in robust international news coverage. Starting in 2010, the Network has an unprecedented opportunity to cement its status as a market leader and to become the leading provider of trusted news and information content in the world.
The event saw the announcement of three new departments to develop and implement the overall goals of Compass 2012: Corporate Development, Editorial Development and Media Development departments which are headed respectively by Dr. Abdulaziz Al-Horr, Ibrahim Helal, and Al Anstey.
29 January 2010
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The 2009 AIBs – the fifth annual AIB international media
excellence awards – took place at LSO St Luke’s in London on 4 November,
attended by leading programme makers, journalists, editors and executives from
all over the world.
We’ll return to LSO St Luke’s in London for the 2010 AIBs on Wednesday 10
November – you can enter the AIBs when the awards are launched in mid-April.
Winners and finalists 2009
View the winners and finalists book from the 2009 AIBs
here
