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| FIRST ARABIC YOUTH NEWS TV |
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Jordan TV has achieved a global first, with the broadcast in early April of Shababnews. Modelled on European youth news programmes like the BBC's Newsround and the Dutch Jeugdjournaal, it is a proper, weekly news and current affairs programme, targeted at young people in their early teens.
The senior training consultant on the project for Jemstone, Brenda de Jager, has been pursuing the idea of an Arabic TV news for youth since the years of Med Media in the 1990s. Besides serving a key audience in the region, programmes like this can make an invaluable contribution to wider development goals. Items from Shababnews are also being offered to Europe via the EBU exchange network, giving a Jordanian window on the Arab world to millions of young Europeans. For further information: brenda@jemstone.net
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| you can also see the programme on the web at: www.shababnews.tv |
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available to the whole Arab diaspora |
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| JEMSTONE LAUNCHES NEWS PHOTO AWARD |
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After the success of the World Press Photo Exhibition, brought to Jordan for the first time last autumn, Jemstone has challenged the local news photographers and their editors to provide their readers with better pictures. Alongside the exhibition, Jemstone ran a workshop for local photographers and the quality of their work was seriously impressive -- here's the winning picture, taken by Ra'ad Adayleh of Ar Rai. So the problem seems to be with the newspapers (and how they use the pictures) not their photographers; perhaps they need to train and employ senior, influential picture desk editors!
The best photos were included in a 2007 calendar, called 'Jordan: portraits and futures' (a few copies of which are still available from calendar@jemstone.net).
The monthly news photographers' award will be launched in the near future; details will be available on www.jemstone.net
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| JEMSTONE RESEARCH PROJECT |
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The complex relationship between the media and wider issues of development is being researched in detail by Jemstone. The eighteen month study is nearing completion and the results will be published as a discussion document later in the year. An early pdf version is available to media and development students;
contact: tudor@jemstone.net
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| Free media in The Balkans |
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On a recent joint-mission to Macedonia, the Jemstone Director worked with the independent newsagency, Makfax, and its inspirational head, Risto Popovski, devising and implementing a practical business development plan. The team included David Brewer, who has worked widely with independent media and edits a web-site for free media: www.mediahelpingmedia.org |
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| Communications/media training |
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Jemstone's core business remains training journalists and those working with the media; most recently TV reporters and anchors, public spokespeople and media managers. For more details see the Jemstone web-site or for Arabic contact: nidal@jemstone.net
All Jemstone training is individually designed for the organisations and individuals involved, to achieve their aims and objectives.
tl/21/4/07
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