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 (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 lineup of
professional journalists who can share their experience but also direct
workshops in important aspects of this kind of 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 on 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 and
teachers from one of Rome's leading universities in the field. In
August, the Americas regions will meet in Mexico - this time led by a
local team of professionals in the field.
One of the widely known and appreciated contributors
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 at 'Conference' level, 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. 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, interestingly). 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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