The Project OPEN Media Hub: Networking, on-the-job training and support to media professionals across the EU Neighbourhood area (EuropeAid/136510/DH/SER/Multi) is part of the European Union Programme OPEN Neighbourhood: opportunities, participation, engagement and networking” and is implemented by a consortium led by Thomson Foundation. The Consortium includes Action Global, European Journalism Centre, Free Press Unlimited, France Médias Monde, Ipsos Mori and Particip. The OPEN Media Hub project follows up on two previous EU funded projects – the Media Neighborhood and the European Neighbourhood Journalism Network.
The OPEN Media Hub is organizing an Advanced Broadcast Training workshop for Television reporters and cameramen/picture editors in Tunis on November 23-25, 2016.
This three-day session will focus on real-time production of news stories related to border security and migration issues with special attention to European projects in the Tunisian and regional context.
The goal is to develop the relevant skills of the participants , especially story telling techniques in news production, writing to pictures, filming and editing of news stories.
Youssef Tsouri who led the Broadcast Media Management Master Class in Tunis in September is the Editor-in-Chief at France 24 Arabic. Before joining the channel at its 24 hours launch in 2010, he worked during 9 years as an editor-in-chief and a presenter for the MBC Group in Dubai where he anchored live coverage of several breaking news events. From 1997 to 2002, he worked as a journalist and presenter at Medi 1 (French and Arabic international TV and Radio based in Morocco which covers North Africa and Mediterranean countries’ affairs). He travelled extensively as a reporter in the Middle East, Europe and Africa (Syria, Jordan, Ivory Coast, Gabon, Guinea Conakry, Burkina Faso, Senegal etc.)