YMU organizes training course in English journalism

The Yemeni Media Union (YMU), in cooperation with the Guinness University for Science and Technology, has launched a training course entitled “English Journalism: Focus and Act”, in the capital Sana’a on Saturday.

The course will continue from September 5th to September 9th with the participation of 15 media professionals from various national media organizations.

During the inauguration, Hassan Hammou Sharaf al-Din, secretary general of the Yemeni Media Union (YMU), said the five-day course aims to provide 15 media professionals from various media outlets with knowledge and skills for writing journalism in English.

Hassan Hammoud pointed out the importance of the course comes within the activities of the Union for the year 2020, which aims to develop the skills of journalists in writing reports and articles in order to convey the suffering of the Yemeni people and communicate with the outside world in its global language.

The course aims to enhance the skills of English journalists in a professional media format that keeps pace with the development of the international media, he added.

Sharaf al-Din stressed that any national institution needs to train media cadres in how to address and coordinate with the international media to convey the oppression of the Yemeni people and convey the messages of their suffering to the world in light of the ongoing Saudi-led aggression.

For his part, trainer Nasser Arrabyee said that the importance of the training course comes within the framework of enabling the media to develop their abilities and deal with the international media, especially with regard to arts of Journalism in English.

E.M