Cebu will host Social Communications Delegates and ANS
correspondents in October
LAWA-AN (CEBU): 27th June 2007 -- Lawa-an's Don Bosco Retreat
Centre will be the venue from 18-21 October for a four day
seminar-workshop on Digital Journalism for Social
Communications Delegates and ANS (effectively austraLasia
and BIS) correspondents from East Asia Oceania and South Asia
Regions.
Fr Fidel Orendain, SC Delegate for the Southern Philippines province
(FIS) has been busy ensuring a solid line-up of professionals,
journalists and others,
who can share their experience but also direct workshops in important
aspects of digital and online journalism.
The Cebu meeting will come in the wake of similar
gatherings in
other parts of the Salesian world, and winds up a planned process over
the six year period. Last year in Africa (Nairobi) SC delegates
and
Salesian journalists (mainly associated with the Salesian Bulletin
editions in that continent) came together for the first time as a
pan-African group. Earlier this year, SC Delegates and ANS
correspondents from North and West Europe regions met in Rome and were
led through aspects of digital journalism by professionals from one of
Rome's leading universities in the field. In August, the
America regions will meet in Mexico - this time led by a local team of
professionals in the field.
One internationally known and appreciated
contributor to the October
seminar will be Fr Josef Eilers SVD who will lead a workshop based on
his FABC communications experience. But by far the most important
aspect of the seminar will be the exchange of experiences by
participants and direct work on skills in online and digital
journalism. If the earlier seminars are something to go by, and
given
the acknowledged development of ANS in almost every aspect of its
operation over the past six years, the seminar will be a stimulus to
Salesian journalists (including the 'citizen journalist') in the South
and East Asia and Oceania zone.
ANS has a worldwide network of Salesian journalists
and people who
cooperate with news gathering. It needs to deal with a variety of
organisational styles according to region. In Spain, the network
is
tightly organised, given the national
organisation that characterises Salesian communications there. It is
highly professional. In India, something similar has developed at
national level through what is known as Bosco Information Services or
BIS. They think nationally and act locally with this system. The
EAO region has promoted an every-confrere-is-a-correspondent style of
citizen journalism around austraLasia
over a decade (austraLasia's tenth
birthday will occur at the
Cebu meeting, BTW). The Cebu meeting will bring this
richness of approach together and seek ways to link it effectively with
ANS, the Congregation's Rome-based 'Agenzia iNfo Salesiana'
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