NORWEGIAN PEOPLES AID, SOUTH SUDAN PROGRAM CIVIL SOCIETY DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM LAND AND RESOURCES RIGHTS PROJECT CALL FOR A MEDIA TRAINING
We are pleased to inform the media fraternity that Norwegian People’s Aid, Land and Resources Rights Project, is planning to support media training of ten (10) South Sudanese Journalists. The training with a focus on “covering oil” and entailing investigative journalism training will be conducted by African Centre for Media Excellence (ACME). NPA will cover costs of training, transportation, feeding and accommodation. NPA will not cover allowances.
About Norwegian Peoples Aid (NPA)
NPA has worked for 25 years in solidarity with the people of South Sudan. It sees the Media as a decisive factor having a key role and responsibility in channeling information to the public about good governance, transparency and accountability in the nascent Republic of South Sudan.
About African Centre for Media Excellence (ACME)
African Centre for Media Excellence (ACME) is a Kampala-based independent, non-governmental, non-partisan and non-profit professional organisation committed to helping African journalists to seek and achieve excellence as well as improving journalism and mass communication in Africa. They have a specific focused on covering oil issues.
Brief on the Training
– Training of Journalists by African Center for Media Excellence (ACME) in Kampala.
– Training will focus on “covering oil” which will entail training in investigative journalism.
– The first part of the training will be conducted in Kampala. It will comprise of 2-week long classroom and field based training.
– Second part of the training will be in South Sudan. Again this will include training in Juba and later in the field (possibly in Upper Nile or Unity State).
– In between, the short but intensive training sessions (in Uganda and South Sudan) trainers from ACME will mentor the trainees who will be engaged in investigation and development of news articles in the petroleum sector
Training Requirements
– Be a South Sudanese journalist
– Have good command of written and spoken English
– Be able to proof that he/she is actively engaged in the media sector
– Have interest in investigative journalism and willing to travel to remote areas in South Sudan
As this training is an integral part of NPA’s support to the media sector, applicants who are members of or attached to the Union of Journalists of South Sudan (UJOSS) as well as media houses/organizations that are members of the Association of Media Development in South Sudan (AMDISS) will have additional advantage. Female journalists are encouraged to apply.
Interested applicants with the above requirements should submit applications (covering letter updated CV, copies of their academic certificates and for print journalists a sample of published articles) to the email addresses:jamusj@npaid.org and boboya@npaid.org by 18th January 2012.
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