Week Long Workshop For Students Of Media Studies And PTV Journalists Starts

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Week long workshop for students of media studies and PTV journalists starts

A six-day long capacity building workshop regarding Countering Violent Extremism (CVE) Media Product Development for the students of media studies and PTV journalists started here at Pakistan Television Training Academy

ISLAMABAD, (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 21st Jan, 2019 ) :A six-day long capacity building workshop regarding Countering Violent Extremism (CVE) Media Product Development for the students of media studies and ptv journalists started here at Pakistan Television Training academy .

The aim of the workshop was to provide refined professional media product development skills with a deeper understanding of the role of media in countering violent extremism, a press release said.

This workshop was organized by Pakistan Peace Collective (PPC), a research and communication project of the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting (MoI&B).

The students of Media Studies departments from 16 Universities of country and four correspondents of PTV news and Current Affairs are attending the training workshop.

The week long workshop titled "Students/PTV-Journalists" Training on CVE Media Product Development" was inaugurated by the Managing Director Pakistan Television Corporation (PTVC) Arshad Khan.

While addressing the participants the MD PTV said that the state channel, being the public sector media organization, had a bigger responsibility to play to demonize the extremist mindset through its varied content.

He appreciated the effort of PPC that in his opinion had brought the vital issue to the fore.

CEO, PPC Shabbir Anwar welcoming the participants, mentioned that PPC specializes in developing the Government of Pakistan's communication response in Countering Violent Extremism (CVE).

He explained the significance of the training for the participants in covering issues relating to violent extremism as practitioners.

The training, he said, is particularly focusing on the importance of strategic communications, which included script writing, production and practical exercises to develop CVE media products.

Two Memorandum of Understandings were signed between PPC and PTVC for uplifting the mutual cooperation in the field of capacity building, research, communication and bridging gap among media and academia.

PTV has also agreed as exclusive media partner for the upcoming International Conference on Media and Conflict (ICMC), which will be held from February 26th to 27th 2019.

Senior Journalist Khursheed Nadeem, Chief Editor Journal of Pakistan Psychiatric Society, Dr Mowadat Rana, Executive Director, CESD Mubashir Akram, Manager Research PPC, Usman Zafar delivered lectures to the participants regarding the role of media in recognizing the trends leading towards violent extremism in Pakistan as well as its social and psychological impact.

They also apprised the participants on means to help develop the skills for critical thinking and analysis.

Through this highly interactive and practical workshop, more than thirty students of media studies from a range of universities would not only get an opportunity to learn about the effectiveness of the techniques and strategies to make media products on the subject of Counter Violent Extremism but would also be able to share and reflect the same during their professional discourse.

The workshop participants included students from universities from all over the Pakistan,including Quetta, Karachi, Gilgit-Baltistan, Swat, Sargodha, Bahawalpur, Lahore, Malakand, Peshawar and Islamabad.