Held at the African Center for Training of Journalists (CAFJ), at MAP’s headquarters, this training seminar is supervised and facilitated by professional journalists and trainers experts in sports journalism, who will accompany the participants for five days and share with them their experiences and their thoughts on the challenges that face the journalists and sports media.
This training seminar, the first of its kind, is part of the 2022 action plan, which was approved by the Executive Council of this pan-African federation during the Dakar meeting last November.
It aims, particularly, to strengthen the capacity of sports journalists for a better treatment of issues related to the coverage of major national, regional and international sporting events, to promote the performance and productivity of sports journalists during the coverage and treatment of sports information and to promote the exchange of experiences as well as to consolidate the capacity of journalists in order to produce innovative content in sports information, while respecting the principles of professional ethics and journalistic ethics.
Speaking at the opening ceremony on Monday, FAAPA Secretary General Mohamed Anis said that African news agencies are called to actively contribute to the development of African sports information and be increasingly in tune with the profound changes that characterize this field, knowing that the pandemic of Covid-19 has heavily impacted the press sector.
In this regard, Anis hoped that this training seminar will lead to the establishment of a network of sports journalists from African news agencies, following the example of other professional platforms affiliated to FAAPA, namely the forum of news directors, the network of IT managers and the network of women leaders.
Other speakers at the opening ceremony, marked by the presence of MAP executives, supervisors of this seminar and national and African journalistic personalities, said that this initiative denotes the awareness of the role and importance of training in the development of any working organization, putting particular emphasis on the efforts of FAAPA in training.
They also highlighted the importance of this training given the development of information technology that requires journalists to adapt and refine their knowledge and working tools, adding that it is also an opportunity for participants to network.
Through the scheduled workshops, this training will address several areas related to “Techniques and practice of sports journalism”, “Sports journalism in the digital age”, “Sport and socio-economic development issues”, “Sport and communication and cultural issues” and “Ethics and professional conducts of the sports journalist”.
This training includes several themes relating, in particular, to professional issues of sports journalism, writing and specificities of sports journalism, trending concepts and mastery of jargon in sports journalism, new digital concepts and methods of collecting, processing and distributing sports information, identification of opportunities for the development of sports information on the web and mastery of techniques of writing and broadcasting for the web.
In addition, the seminar is about the identification of users’ expectations to produce relevant sports information on the net, the sports press as an economic and advertising reality, the new business model for sports media, the profitability of sports media, the relationship between the sports press and the economic and political world, the impact of the sports sector on the socio-economic development of African countries or the concept and challenges of sports management.
Participants in this training seminar, supervised by journalists Mamadou Salif Diallo, head of the sports department at the Senegalese News Agency (APS) and Magloire Gnaé Oulidehi, director of publication of the daily newspaper “Le Sport”, will have the opportunity to meet renowned journalists such as veterans of Moroccan journalism Najib Salmi, Belaid Bouimid and Mohammed Berrada, as well as Morad Moutaouakkil and Hicham El Khlifi.
Source: Agency Morocaine De Presse