February 28, 2006 · Posted in: Media
Basic safety training course for Mindanao journalists – 2
AFTER Davao, the one-day basic safety training course series for journalists in Mindanao shifts to Cagayan de Oro.
Organized by the Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism (PCIJ) and Kapisanan ng mga Brodkaster ng Pilipinas (KBP), with support from the USAID through The Asia Foundation (TAF), and the Canadian Embassy , the training will be held on March 10, 2006, from 1 to 6 p.m. at the Cha-Li Beach Resort and Conference Center in Cugman, Cagayan de Oro City. A minimal registration fee of P50 will be charged interested participants to cover costs of materials and snacks.
The training seeks to address the need of journalists to be able to identify and handle both man-made and natural emergencies that could pose a threat to their personal well-being in the course of their coverage of news and/or media-related events throughout the whole country.
Mindanao journalists in particular find themselves having to report on conflicts on a day-to-day basis that on many occasions puts them in high threat locations or “hot spots.” The training, to be facilitated by the Special Applications Research (SAR) which has done similar seminars for the major TV networks and Metro Manila print journalists, will therefore focus on survival and personal protection dealing with topics on prevention, intervention, and postvention measures. The course will be a mix of lectures, visual aids (Powerpoint), demonstrations and practical hands-on exercises.
The third and last of the safety training series will be held at the Garden Orchid Hotel in in Zamboanga City on March 24, 2006.
For broadcast journalists, please get in touch with your TV and radio stations, local KBP chapters or the KBP’s main office in Manila through:
- Verge Velasco
Phone: (032) 8151990 to 92
kbp@pacific.net.ph
For print journalists, kindly contact the PCIJ at:
- Phone: (032) 9293117, 4104764
Email: training@pcij.org
2 Responses to Basic safety training course for Mindanao journalists – 2
benign0
February 28th, 2006 at 8:08 pm
Journalists lang ba ang at risk sa Pilipinas?
At least a journalist is aware of the occupational risks of exercising their freedom of speech in a country of murderous politicians.
But what about those 1,800 Filipinos who died for no reason other than living in an island nation with an outstanding track record of fatal “natural” disasters?
How come we don’t hear and read (at least in the Front Page of rags like this) about hi-profile well-funded awareness “courses” on the dangers of living in the Philippines?
“man-made and natural emergencies that could pose a threat to their personal well-being”
But of course.
benign0
February 28th, 2006 at 8:13 pm
What about the millions of citizens who breath in Manila’s corrosive air courtesy of our politicans’ pandering to the whims of jeepney and bus operators?
Why don’t we organise “training courses” to make them aware of the presence of these poisonous fumes that “pose a threat to their personal well-being”?
There is so much out there that routinely jeopardise the lives of millions of other INNOCENT Pinoys.
Dead journalists are the least of our problems.