Amman – Jordan Media Institute (JMI), in cooperation with USAID-funded Jordan Fiscal Reform and Public Financial Management Project, held a training workshop entitled "Specialized and Effective Press Coverage of Fiscal Decentralization, Macroeconomics, Public Finance and Public-Private Partnership".
The three-day workshop was attended by 11 participants representing various press organizations. The workshop focused on the most important terms used in macroeconomic, public financial and fiscal decentralization, as well as training the participants on how to cover economic topics through humanizing economic information and data.
Project Director, Tareq Bakri, said that the workshop, which was attended by trainers from the Fiscal Reform and Public Financial Management Project, is the second to be held by JMI under the same project.
“The workshop trained a number of journalists on covering economic topics for the aim of raising the quality and quantity of their produced material and making these reports more effective while containing simple and easy to understand information,” Bakri added.
Several participants praised the intensive training and the content of the workshop. Journalist Mohammad Al-Momani of the Jordan News Agency (Petra) said that “the workshop tackled many important topics. It introduced the process of working with economic data and information. It also helped identifying the practices and methods that journalists need in order to read and analyze figures and tables and employ them within a sound journalistic language".
It is noteworthy that JMI and USAID will be holding a third training workshop for another group of journalists within the framework of the same project.