Minister of Government Communication and government spokesperson Faisal Shboul received on Monday from Director General of the Royal Health Awareness Society (RHAS) Amal Arefej a report on a health media training joint project for journalism and media graduates. Shboul emphasized that the project is part of a number of programs that the Ministry of Government Communication is working on to develop the media environment and enhance the flow of information to the public and the local media, pointing out that this project provided fully paid theoretical and practical training opportunities in 12 media institutions for 41 graduates of journalism and media. The project, he indicated, achieved important results, the most prominent of which was the employment of a quarter of those graduates in various media institutions, in addition to the production of 352 visual, written, audio and digital health media materials. Shboul hailed the Jordan Media Institute, the academic partner in designing the project, as well as the donors, including the International Diabetes Federation, the United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund, Radio Netherlands Worldwide, and the International Relief Committee, commending the role of local media institutions that hosted the trainees over a period of six months. Highlighting the importance of the partnership between the RHAS, an initiative of Her Majesty Queen Rania Al Abdullah, and the Ministry of Government Communication, Arefej said she was looking forward to designing other programs to enhance the work of media and health journalism in the coming period. Shboul also received, during his meeting with Arefej, an evaluation study on designing a project to train journalism and media graduates in the field of health media and its most prominent results and recommendations offered to the relevant authorities. The study showed the extent of the benefit achieved by measuring the impact of theoretical and practical training on the participants and the extent of their benefit in developing competencies, skills and strengths, which can be used to design future training programs targeting journalism and media graduates.
Source: Jordan News Agency