Aljazeera Media Institute will launch 115 public courses in second half of 2023 covering different fields of journalism, media and public relations.
Zakir Smailagic, director of Aljazeera Media Institute said: “The institute will launch during the second half of the current year 115 public courses for public at large covering different fields of journalism, media and public relations including nine specialised workshops.”
Zakir continued: " The training department held in July eleven specialised courses, six of which were allocated for public including young age groups and online courses. The other five courses were held for the corporates and private entities.” He also added that his department will hold a number of specialised courses during the current month for young age groups.
Regarding experts and trainers of the institute, Zakir said: "The institute is distinguished by having an affiliated group of trainers, including stars of Al Jazeera screens and veteran journalists who have worked for many years with the network or with prestigious media institutions. Accordingly, they are renowned for their excellence, efficiency relying on an accumulated experience for trainees in different media skills."
He pointed out that the number of trainers at the institute currently reaches 176, most of them are Al Jazeera Media Network’s staff who can train various specialised media courses.
Zakir pointed out that one of the most prominent programme of his department was a training programme designed for 65 employees of AJ+ platform under the name of “Copyright and Intellectual Property in Digital Journalism”. The training programme was launched early January until June 2023, led and supervised by trainer, Ahmed Ashara.