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[creative-radio] MENA Developing Asia Journalism Training and Awards

 

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Developing Asia Journalism Training and Awards

Background

This year's Developing Asia Journalism Awards (DAJA) will include a short
training course for a group of 20 journalists from ADB DMCs across Asia
and the Pacific. The program is designed not only to enhance participating
journalists' knowledge on various development issues, but more
importantly, to recognize and emphasize their crucial role in fostering
greater awareness of key development issues, and providing sound
information to the public that they may be empowered to make better
socio-economic choices.

The poverty impact of the global financial crisis and government responses
to the crisis, as well as the role of development journalism in promoting
greater economic and financial literacy will be the main issues of
discussion for the 4-day workshop. The program will also profile ADB and
ADBI's work on adaptation to climate change and public private
partnerships (PPPs) for infrastructure development. Practical sessions
designed to help journalists prepare clear, accessible stories that will
provide ordinary citizens with a better understanding of the economic
realities and development issues facing their countries are also included
in the program.

The objectives of this training course and the awards are to: i) enhance
the understanding and further develop the skills of journalists in Asia by
equipping them with sound and current knowledge on key economic and
development issues, and; ii) to enable and encourage them to actively
promote public awareness through informative, responsible, and empowering
journalism.

An announcement has been made to call for submission of articles related
to four issues/categories, namely,
i) poverty impact of the global financial crisis;
ii) government responses to the global financial crisis;
iii) infrastructure development;
and
iv) climate change adaptation.
The top 20 articles will be selected by a panel of judges and their
authors/writers will be invited to the four day training program that will
be concluded with an awards ceremony.

Winners and runners up of each of the four categories
including two special prizes for
- Best Development Journalist of the Year
and
- Best Young Development Journalist of the Year
will be selected and awarded at the dinner
at the Foreign Correspondents Club.

Outputs

Enhanced monitoring, analytical, and reporting skills on economic and
other development issues for Asian journalists
Greater public awareness of economic and other development issues through
the work of the participating journalists
Better public and corporate governance in Asia and the Pacific

Participants

Journalists from ADB's developing member countries

Partners

Asian Development Bank headquarters
and
ADB Japanese Representative Office.

Event Details

Event: Developing Asia Journalism Training and Awards
Venue: ADBI, Tokyo
Start date: 20 October 2009
End Date: 23 October 2009

For more information:
http://www.adbi.org/event/3263.daja.awards.2009/

[via / thanks to:]

Bazlu
_______________________
AHM. Bazlur Rahman-S21BR
Chief Executive Officer
Bangladesh NGOs Network for Radio and Communication(BNNRC)
&
Member, Strategy Council
UN-Global Alliance for ICT and Development (UN GAID)

House: 13/1, Road:2, Shaymoli, Dhaka-1207
Post Box: 5095, Dhaka 1205 Bangladesh

Phone: 88-02-9130750, 88-02-9138501
01711881647 Fax: 88-02-9138501-105

E-mail: ceo@bnnrc.net, bnnrc@bd.drik.net
www.bnnrc.net

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[creative-radio] Developing Asia Journalism Training and Awards

 

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Developing Asia Journalism Training and Awards

Background

This year's Developing Asia Journalism Awards (DAJA) will include a short
training course for a group of 20 journalists from ADB DMCs across Asia
and the Pacific. The program is designed not only to enhance participating
journalists' knowledge on various development issues, but more
importantly, to recognize and emphasize their crucial role in fostering
greater awareness of key development issues, and providing sound
information to the public that they may be empowered to make better
socio-economic choices.

The poverty impact of the global financial crisis and government responses
to the crisis, as well as the role of development journalism in promoting
greater economic and financial literacy will be the main issues of
discussion for the 4-day workshop. The program will also profile ADB and
ADBI's work on adaptation to climate change and public private
partnerships (PPPs) for infrastructure development. Practical sessions
designed to help journalists prepare clear, accessible stories that will
provide ordinary citizens with a better understanding of the economic
realities and development issues facing their countries are also included
in the program.

The objectives of this training course and the awards are to: i) enhance
the understanding and further develop the skills of journalists in Asia by
equipping them with sound and current knowledge on key economic and
development issues, and; ii) to enable and encourage them to actively
promote public awareness through informative, responsible, and empowering
journalism.

An announcement has been made to call for submission of articles related
to four issues/categories, namely,
i) poverty impact of the global financial crisis;
ii) government responses to the global financial crisis;
iii) infrastructure development;
and
iv) climate change adaptation.
The top 20 articles will be selected by a panel of judges and their
authors/writers will be invited to the four day training program that will
be concluded with an awards ceremony.

Winners and runners up of each of the four categories
including two special prizes for
- Best Development Journalist of the Year
and
- Best Young Development Journalist of the Year
will be selected and awarded at the dinner
at the Foreign Correspondents Club.

Outputs

Enhanced monitoring, analytical, and reporting skills on economic and
other development issues for Asian journalists
Greater public awareness of economic and other development issues through
the work of the participating journalists
Better public and corporate governance in Asia and the Pacific

Participants

Journalists from ADB's developing member countries

Partners

Asian Development Bank headquarters
and
ADB Japanese Representative Office.

Event Details

Event: Developing Asia Journalism Training and Awards
Venue: ADBI, Tokyo
Start date: 20 October 2009
End Date: 23 October 2009

For more information:
http://www.adbi.org/event/3263.daja.awards.2009/

[via / thanks to:]

Bazlu
_______________________
AHM. Bazlur Rahman-S21BR
Chief Executive Officer
Bangladesh NGOs Network for Radio and Communication(BNNRC)
&
Member, Strategy Council
UN-Global Alliance for ICT and Development (UN GAID)

House: 13/1, Road:2, Shaymoli, Dhaka-1207
Post Box: 5095, Dhaka 1205 Bangladesh

Phone: 88-02-9130750, 88-02-9138501
01711881647 Fax: 88-02-9138501-105

E-mail: ceo@bnnrc.net, bnnrc@bd.drik.net
www.bnnrc.net

___________________
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Asiapacific-general@lists.amarc.org
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[creative-radio] Bougainville community radio wins communication award

 

Title – 6386 GLOBAL: Bougainville community radio wins communication award
Date – 23 August 2009
Byline – Media release
Origin – Pacific Media Watch
Source – University of Queensland News, 22/08/09
Copyright – UQ
Status – Unabridged
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BOUGAINVILLE COMMUNITY RADIO STATION WINS 2009 UQ AWARD
www.uq.edu.au/news/?article=19349

BRISBANE (UQ Online/Pacific Media Watch): A pioneering community radio
station in Papua New Guinea's autonomous province of Bougainville has won
the University of Queensland's School of Journalism and Communication 2009
Communication and Social Change Award.

Based in the town of Buka, locally-owned New Dawn FM 95.3 was founded to
help rebuild Bougainville's civil society in the wake of a devastating
10-year internal conflict with a death toll of 20,000 people, and 40,000
others being displaced.

UQ's annual Communication and Social Change Award was launched in 2006, to
honour outstanding contributions by individuals or organisations around
the world to the theory and practice of communication for social change
(CSC).

Announcing the 2009 Award-winner, the head of UQ's School of Journalism
and Communication, Professor Michael Bromley, said it was significant that
a South Pacific media organisation had won for the first time since the
award began.

"New Dawn FM's mission is to restore freedom of expression and promote the
reconciliation process on Bougainville, by giving a voice to local
communities that have been dispossessed by civil war.

"Our independent 2009 award jury panel, which included senior
representatives of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation and the
Australian government's overseas development agency, AusAID, unanimously
agreed that New Dawn FM 95.3 Community Radio's brave and pioneering work
is in the best tradition of international grassroots activism to promote
communication for social change," Professor Bromley said.

This year there was a strong international field of 19 nominations for the
award, which comprises a plaque and A$2500.

As well as Papua New Guinea, award nominees came from organisations or
individuals based in Bangladesh, Burundi, Canada, the Congo, Fiji, India,
New Zealand, Nigeria, the Philippines, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Uganda and
the USA.

Reflecting the consistently high-calibre of entries, the CSC jury also
awarded a special Meritorious Commendation for Communication and Social
Change Award to Indian graphic designer and artist Lakshmi Murthy for her
innovative and ground-breaking use of graphic design to promote
communication and social change.

The winner of this award receives A$1500 and a plaque.

The awards are administered by the UQ School of Journalism and
Communication's Centre for Communication and Social Change. The
fast-growing social science discipline of CSC promotes the use of various
forms of communication (including community media, and information and
communication technologies, or ICTs) to bring about positive participatory
development and social change.

The 2009 CSC award jury was chaired by Professor Ken Wiltshire, AO (JD
Story professor of public administration, UQ).

Other jury members were: Annmaree O'Keeffe (Deputy Director-General,
AusAID), Peter Cave (foreign editor of ABC News), Hugh Leonard (former
secretary-general of the Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union), Professor
Michael Bromley (head of the School of Journalism and Communication, UQ),
and Dr Zala Volcic (Centre for Critical and Cultural Studies, UQ),
Associate Professor Pradip Thomas (research director, School of Journalism
and Communication, UQ).

The executive secretary to the jury was Associate Professor Martin Hadlow
(director, Centre for Communication and Social Change, School of
Journalism and Communication.)

The 2009 CSC awards will be presented at an official ceremony at UQ's St
Lucia campus in Brisbane later this year.

* More information: Marsali MacKinnon, Centre for Communication and Social
Change.
Email: m.mackinnon@uq.edu.au telephone: +61 7 3346 3092

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