Arakan News Agency | Exclusive
Today, Friday, a training course titled “Writing and Editing News in English” concluded, targeting a number of Rohingya students. It was organized by the Arakan Humanitarian Association at its headquarters in Istanbul, Turkey, in collaboration with the Arakan News Agency.
Four Rohingya students, who came from Arakan State in Myanmar and are continuing their university studies in various fields in Istanbul, participated in the course. The training is part of the “Stars 2” program organized by the association to qualify Rohingya youth in various fields, including media.
The training lasted for five days, during which Ahmed Al-Shehabi, the producer and simultaneous translator at the “TRT World” Turkish channel, provided practical applications on writing and editing journalistic news in English.
The course included a field visit to the “TRT World” channel headquarters at the invitation of the trainer, where participants got to know the channel’s departments closely, especially the newsroom and production sections, and learned about the workflow in media institutions.
This course comes within the framework of an integrated training program aimed at developing the media skills of Rohingya youth and qualifying them to participate as part of the Arakan News Agency team in monitoring, editing, translation, and preparing content for social media platforms, in addition to producing visual materials.
Previously, the students received various trainings within the program, including editorial and journalistic translation tasks from Burmese and Rohingya languages into English under the supervision of the agency.
At the end of the course, students had the opportunity to edit and publish a set of news in English on the Arakan News Agency’s website, where they expressed their admiration for the practical and theoretical content they received and noted the tangible development in their journalistic skills.
It’s noteworthy that the Arakan Humanitarian Association, founded in 2015 and based in Istanbul, is dedicated to the relief and development of the Muslim Rohingya minority. It aims to highlight their suffering, meet their humanitarian needs, and develop them scientifically, culturally, socially, and economically, while qualifying leaders among them to uplift their community. The association also offers educational grants annually to Rohingya students in Turkey.
In the past December, the association organized a journalistic editing course in collaboration with Al Jazeera Media Institute, targeting Arabic-speaking Rohingya students.
