Training activities in 1999 and 2000
Training activities in 1999
In 1999, the two main journalism workshops were held in Cavtat Croatia, and Szeged Hungary.
An Introduction to Circom Training by Rick Thompson, Training Coordinator
Television Journalism Workshop, Szeged. March 1999
One of Circom Regional’s key activities is training. Member stations gain great benefit from bringing together their younger producers, to share experiences, widen their perspectives, and to learn the best principles and techniques of regional TV, which is often produced on low budgets. The main training activity is in Journalism, seeking to ensure fairness and objectivity, appropriate for public TV in a democracy.
This video report shows the 9-day Television Journalism Workshop held in March 1999 in Szeged, Hungary. Twenty-five young journalists from nine countries attended. The video is presented by one of the trainees, Monika Bradaric from Croatia.
There are two versions of the video. The short version is 9’30”. The long version is 33’40”, and includes a full news programme produced by the trainees. The emphasis of this programme was on variety, relevance to the audience, visual illustration and “packaging”of the stories by the reporters, to make the whole programme as informative and interesting as possible.
video report - short version (9’30”)
video report - long version (33’40”)
Television Journalism Workshop Cavtat, June 1999
Training for the future
Training activities in 2000
The year 2000 has been particularly active. The ten-day CIRCOM Journalism Workshop held in Potsdam in May was the biggest we have organised, attended by nearly 50 journalists and technicians from 21 different countries. The young journalists taped and edited more than 30 sequences and news features, and recorded two half-hour programmes in the studios of ORB.
A CIRCOM seminar on Ethnic Minority Broadcasting, held at the start of the "At Home" Festival, hosted by TVP Krakow in Poland in September, had 28 participants. The seminar concentrated on TV coverage of Roma communities, and awarded a prize for the best magazine programme on ethnic minority affairs.
In November, a senior seminar for Newsroom Editors-in-Chief from central and eastern European countries was hosted by France 3 Alsace in Strasbourg. Participants were able to see the European Parliament in plenary session during the seminar, which concentrated on newsroom management and new technology.
Television Journalism Workshop Potsdam, June 2000
The Circom workshop 2000