Media Department and Training and Rehabilitation Sector launch training course for members of media in governorates of Shabwa and Al Dhalea

The Media Information Department of the General Secretariat of the Presidency of the Southern Transitional Council, in coordination with the Training and Rehabilitation Sector of the National Southern Media Authority, on Sunday, launched a training course for members of media in the executive bodies of the local leaderships of the Transitional Council in the governorates of Shabwa and Al-Dhalea, under the auspices of President Aidarous Qassem Al-Zubaidi, the President of the Southern Transitional Council.

In the course titled "Press Skills and Digital Content Creation", Mr. Fadl Mohammed Al-Jaadi, Deputy Secretary-General of the General Secretariat of the Presidency of the Transitional Council, delivered a speech in which he welcomed the participants from the governorates of Shabwa and Al Dhalea, expressing his happiness at their presence in the capital, Aden, to receive scientific and applied knowledge in media.

Al-Jaadi congratulated the sons of Shabwa on the occasion of the changes that took place in their governorate, which ended the Brotherhood’s control of power in the governorate.

The Deputy Secretary-General stressed the importance of adhering to what is presented in the training session to raise the level of media capabilities of the participants, wishing them success and transferring all the information they gained and reflecting it into their practical reality.

For his part, Dr. Bassem Mansour, head of the media information department, member of the National Southern Media Authority, presented a speech in which he stressed that the department's organizing of these courses is in order to provide members of media in the governorates of the South with the knowledge required to raise their efficiency and increase their skill capabilities in the field of preparing media reports and the use of scientific and professional standards in writing press news in accordance with modern media techniques.

Mansour indicated during his speech that the department will work to solve many of the problems that accompany the work of media departments, stressing the importance of making the most of this session, through which the performance of the participants will be evaluated at the end of the session, noting that the year 2022 will move towards developing a new plan aimed at developing media work in the governorates, and we will go to the governorates and hold consultative meetings with a view to evaluation.

In turn, Dr. Abdullah Al-Haw, Head of the Training and Rehabilitation Sector, member of the National Southern Media Authority, delivered a brief explanation of the training program that the participants in the course will receive, through which they will learn about the methods of press editing and other journalistic skills.

In the context of his speech, Al-Haw pointed out that the session will contribute to raising media capabilities and raising awareness of the importance of addressing issues in the southern arena, in recognition of the importance of communicating the voice of southern citizens through various media.

The course included a lecture in the arts of electronic press news, and digital content industry, and the participants were given practical exercises on what they learned.

The 20 trainees also got, during the first day of the five-day course, a political lecture by researcher Najmi Abdel Hamid, on the historical and civilized national identity of the people of the south and the role of the media in embodying it.