September 29^th. A training course on writing local broadcasting reports on economical and consumer issues was successfully concluded at the Media Center at An-Najah University. The course was organized in cooperation with the Deutsche Welle Academy in Germany. The 10-day course was administered by Media Trainers Manuela Römer and Maria Frauenrath.

The training targeted a group of journalists from Ramallah, Nablus and Hebron. The course aimed to develop the participants’ skills in writing and preparing local broadcasting reports about economical and consumer issues and produce them in a professional broadcasting manner.

The course’s schedule consisted of a number of theoretical and practical lectures that were given in the studios inside the Media Center, in addition to a number of field visits that aimed to familiarize the trainees with the consumer protection societies and other institutions that offer services to the Palestinian consumer.

The training also included the production of two radio programs, one of which was aired on An-Najah Radio Station (Voice of An-Najah). The program was made by the trainees themselves and addressed the issue of the expected scenarios in case the American financial aids are cut off from the Palestinian people. The other one was a recorded economical radio magazine that addressed a number of issues in the economical fields.

At the conclusion of the course Dr. Atef Salameh, Dean of the Faculty of Media at An-Najah, Mrs. Hanna Boey from the German Embassy in Palestine, and Mr. Ayman Al-Nimer, Director of the Media Center at An-Najah, presented the certificates to the participants.

The course is part of a series of similar training courses that are organized in cooperation between the Deutsche Welle Academy, the Faculty of Media and the Media Center at An-Najah.