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By Bonifacio Taban Kuich February 25, 2011 (BENTIU) - 24 journalists from Benitu radio completed four days of training on the media capacity building, which was sponsored by the state ministry of information and communication in Unity state with a trainers from UN Mission in Sudan (UNMIS). Gideon Gatpan Thaor, the minister of information said, the aim of this training was to help the local journalists to carry out their duty as professionals. Gideon Gatpan Thaor (ST) Thaor added, “We need to apply much work on the capacity training to our staff because most of them are not well equipped with journalist ethnics”. He called upon the local journalists to double their efforts to work towards producing reliable sources of information for all communities in the state. Speaking with journalists at the training center, he said that this is the second time the ministry of information in the state has set up capacity training for Bentiu radio staff. Chuol Jany Bol a member of staff from Bentiu radio told Sudan Tribune on Thursday that ”they were very excited with work offered by the state ministry”. Gideon Scot, a UN volunteer information officer said that the offers they did to Unity State radio journalist is to improve their knowledge on how to write standard script, with a focus on radio production. Scot added that he was impressed by the turnout for the training. Thaor urged the local journalists to make use of skills passed to them by the trainers and to do away with laziness. (ST) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "JFD info" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/jfdinfo?hl=en.
