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25 Jun 2014
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<strong>Wednesday June 25<sup>th</sup> 2014</strong><br />
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The Jordan Media Institute organized the third training workshop under the title “An Introduction to Strategic Communication and Media Relations” in cooperation with the Center for Defending Freedom of Journalists (CDFJ). The workshop came as part of the project “Expanding Public Dialogue on Human Rights Issues through Media”, which was launched by the Canadian organization “Journalists for Human Rights” (JHR) in partnership with JMI and local partners.<br />
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In addition, the fourth training workshop titled “Covering Human Rights Issues Using Data Journalism” was concluded at JMI. The workshop was implemented in cooperation with Community Media Network (CMN), and under the same project. It targeted 13 journalists from printed press and electronic websites. The four workshops have so far trained 63 journalists and students on this new type of journalism, and developed their skills in creating stories on human rights issues based the collected data.<br />
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Data journalism is a type of journalism that studies a set of available data, and analyzes it to create new stories. It is also known as precision journalism for its reliance on clear, specific and mainly official data<span dir="RTL">.</span><br />
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On the other hand, the “Strategic Communication and Media Relations” workshop targeted participants from local Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) that deal with human rights issues.<br />
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The workshop introduced a program called “Al Maydan”, which was developed within the project to activate citizens’ participation in reporting human rights issues. The program, which is an electronic database, includes a website for information, smart phones and an SMS application.<br />
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It is noteworthy that the project aims to expand citizen and state dialogue on human rights issues through strengthened media in the MENA region<span dir="RTL">.</span> It also includes a follow-up and supervision plan for CSOs trainees at their institutions to set up a media plan that suits the needs of each institution in order to enhance its communication with the media. This is in addition to a follow up plan for “Data Journalism” trainees to prepare news reports on human rights issues.<br />
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