Citizen Journalism program first
day was held in MovenPick Hotel Karachi on Sunday 24th September
2017, the program started with the student’s registration from seven Different
areas. The Society for international education (SIE) in collaboration with
Karachi Youth Initiative started this program for the young adults between the
ages of 18 and 25 to teach them the art of the citizen journalism.
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| Participants from seven different areas registering their selves in first Session. PC: CJ |
The purpose of this program is to
give a chance to young adults form their community to cover those stories which
are not highlighting on the main stream media said by the Farah Kamal. While
talking to the students she further said that you have to work hard for
achieving your future goals. Naziya Baloch said that we will cover the hidden
stories of Lyari, everyone blaming that Lyari is not peaceful and they are the terrorist
but she said that I will cover the talent of Lyari and showcase the hidden
stories of Lyari, thanks to SIE for taking such good initiative.
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| Naziya Baloch is giving her view about program. PC CJ |
After that the participants were
divided in three groups and there were three Training sessions, the first
session was about Social Media for citizen Journalism, first all participants
insure their self that they are on the all social mediums: Twitter, Instagram
and Facebook, after that Miss Farwah discuss about that how can we use social
media for the citizen journalism, what are the ways for the positive usage of
Social Media .
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| Students are taking session of social media journalism. PC: CJ |
2nd Training session
on photojournalism, in this session first of all our teacher of the Day Aisha
Mir taught us different techniques of pictures taking and further she added
that how can we take pictures from different angles through our smart phones,
our teacher said that photojournalism is a language through which can you tell
your story through pictures. Our teacher also thought us that what are the
ethics of photojournalism.
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| Miss Aisha Mir is talking about photojournalism during session. PC CJ |
3rd Training session
on learning to be a reporter, in this our trainer of the was Mr. Zia Ur Rehman
form The News newspaper, Mr. Zia ur Rehman
is Pakistani journalist, columnist and author, he taught us how to work
on your idea and he said that your main thing is your idea that you want to
report or write about. Students love to write about their area, people and
community issue, they want highlight the issue and people who are working
something good for community and their areas.
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| Sir Zia ur Rehman is listening the ideas of participants during the session of Learning to be a reporter PC: CJ |
In the session one Sikh community
journalist Mr. Ramesh Singh gave us a session about that how to write about
communities and he told us that you have to visit the places of others people
cultures which are not Muslims you all have to cover their stories for peace.
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| Mr. Ramesh Singh is speaking about religious diversity and communities news reporting, PC CJ |
At the end we had a keynote speaker
an Oscar winner Haya Fatima Iqbal , she is an documentary maker and story
teller, she told us about her experience with Brandon founder of Humans New
York that how he is working and covering stories, she also told us about that
how can we take interview of a person and which questions we can ask from them.
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| Miss Haya Fatima is sharing her experience journey with Humans of New Yourk. PC: CJ |
Usama Dawood a Youth activist
form Hijrat colony Said that this training is very good for the young adults to
showcase their areas and communities stories to the people, we hope that we
will learn more from this program, he further said that I am happy that we will
do more practical work in this program.
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| Usama Dawood is talking about his areas stories. PC: CJ |
So the day was full of learning
and information about journalism, learnt a lot and waiting for the stories form
the areas, at the end thanks to the people who are behind these all efforts,
hard work and did beautiful arrangements for us Saad Rabbani, Farwah Rizvi,
zehra Abid and Fizza Abid for facilitating us whole day and helping us to learn
something.
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| Abdul Rehman is busy in learning. PC: CJ |