KUWAIT: KUNA Center for Media Development launched on Sunday its training program “Training of Trainers” with the participation of a number of employees of Kuwait News Agency (KUNA), Saudi News Agency (SPA), Kuwait Oil Company (KOC) and the Public Authority for Combating Corruption (Nazaha). The program, presented by the Editor-in-Chief of Arabic News at the Ministry of Information’s Al-Akhbar Channel Saeed Mana’a, will last for five days and will cover the foundations and skills of successful training, dealing with types of trainees, rules of interactive training, identifying French and English schools in training, preparing training and evaluation topics, skills of elaboration, abbreviation, conciseness, editing headlines and breaking news.

The program also addresses skills of training editors on the topics of number and counted, Hamzat Al-Qata’ and Hamzat Al-Wasl, writing various types of reports —informational, descriptive and analytical-- and training editors on preparing electronic reports.

The program, which relies on theoretical and practical methods, also covers skills of training editors on preparing video reports, taking notes in seminars, conferences and statements, and skills of training correspondents on preparing different types of questions and daring to ask them during seminars, press conferences, etc, in addition to training them to convert reports and statements into infographic reports.

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The program also covers the skills of training correspondents on writing reports, preparing and formulating reports, training on preparing and implementing references and bridges for correspondents in reports, and training correspondents and editors on discovering their vocal talents.

The program also aims to train correspondents and editors on self-management, improving pronunciation, voice, tone, rhythm, and fluency in speech, training on preparing documentaries, training skills on preparing podcast dialogue programs, formulating a virtual script for a dialogue program, and evaluation and assessment skills to improve the training courses program.

The KUNA Center for Media Capacity Development, which was established in December 1995, is considered one of the most important media training centers and has provided hundreds of training programs in various media fields. It aims to develop personal media capabilities and potentials and advance professional media work. — KUNA