EMK-BJS fellowship launched for mid-career journalists

The Building Assets Journalism School (BJS), an educational and non-profit concern of Bangladeshi Journalists in International Media (BJIM), today launched a fellowship for mid-career journalists with the sponsorship of Edward M Kennedy (EMK) Center in Dhaka.
The 10th-week long fellowship titled "Necessary Workshops For A Better Press" has selected 40 mid-career journalists after a rigorous selection procedure, said a press release. It is a mixed batch of reporters, photographers, and video journalists – an attempt to promote multi-expertise in each individual professional, it said.
The attendees will learn and refresh their working skills in seven modules – mobile journalism, storytelling techniques and sourcing, multi-platform journalism, ethics and working on investigative storytelling, long-form story writing, basic fake news and misinformation debunking, and basic hostile environment training.
After attending their classes over the session, the fellows will receive a recognition certificate and the top three fellows will also receive crests. All the classes will be held in Dhaka‍‍`s EMK Center-sponsored classrooms.

The trainers, all seasoned journalists, of the fellowship have proven and successful track records in their own careers and in the dissemination of knowledge as well. They are Shafiqul Alam, Bureau Chief, AFP Dhaka; Rozina Islam, Special Correspondent, Prothom Alo; Faisal Mahmud, Correspondent, Al-Jazeera; Qadaruddin Shishir, Editor, AFP Factcheck Dhaka; Maksuda Aziz, Reporter, Mongabay; Mohammad Ponir Hossain, Photographer, Reuters, Dhaka, and Sam Jahan, Video & Text Correspondent, Reuters, Dhaka.

After attending their classes spread out over the next ten weeks, the fellows will receive a recognition certificate and the top three fellows will also receive crests. The certificate-giving ceremony is likely to be held in the first week of September, TBA. All the classes will be held in Dhaka’s EMK Center-sponsored classrooms.

“Such intense fellowships and training programs run by local top-range trainers are very rare. It will be a great opportunity for our fellows to hone their skills and become better journalists. We hope we can continue such endeavors in the future as well,” said Sam Jahan, Chief Instructor of BJS.