Training of business journalism trainers ends

Participants of the 'Training of Trainers on Business Journalism' pose with resource persons Martin Mulligan, Robert Powell and Farid Hossain at CCDB Hope Centre in Savar yesterday. Photo: MRDI

A core group of trainers on business journalism has been developed under a non-government initiative aiming at long-term capacity development of the media houses, says a press release.
The initiative took final shape yesterday as a 10-day training of trainers concluded in two phases at CCDB Hope Centre in Savar yesterday.
The Management and Resources Development Initiative (MRDI) organised the training under a project titled 'Training of Trainers on Business Journalism', supported by Katalyst.
A total of 15 business/economic reporters from the print and electronic media took part in the training. They will act as in-house trainers to train up their colleagues.
The prospective trainers were imparted practical knowledge to make them able to train others on writing stock market reports, enhancing accountancy skills for better financial reporting, analysing financial statements of companies, doing research for business and SME reports and all other major aspects relating to business journalism.
Earlier in the first phase, a weeklong course was held in August using the training modules developed by senior journalists Moazzem Hossain, editor of The Financial Express, and Farid Hossain, bureau chief, Associated Press (AP), Bangladesh along with Martin Mulligan, senior sub-editor and writer, Financial Times, UK and Robert Powell, financial journalist, BBC World Service Trust, UK.
Apart from the training module development team, local resource persons including renowned journalists, business leaders, company representatives, academics, economists, stock exchange analysts, chartered accountants, investment analysts and researchers conducted the course.