Biçici has stated that in the 24 training sessions that had been conducted in four years across Turkey, 650 participants from 55 cities have participated in the sessions. Biçici continued to explain that more than 60% of the participants in these training sessions continue being part of regional and thematic news networks. The regional training programmes have been transformed into thematic training sessions in the past year and have welcomed over 120 people. dokuz8NEWS director Biçici also announced that an alternative media academy will be founded shortly, building upon the groundwork laid by all the experience gained through 25 training sessions so far.
WHAT IS NEWS?
On day 1 of the training session, journalist Burcu Karakaş has presented “What is news? Story of news and journalism” to the participants. Karakaş has given examples of her news reports and reiterated the significance of news design and processing. She has specifically exemplified the common mistakes done by conventional media platforms.
NOT RESPECTING THE SURVIVORS’ RIGHTS IS A VIOLATION
After Burcu Karakaş, Şehlem Kaçar of Association for Combating Gendered Violence has presented “Basic elements in gendered violence in social gender oriented journalism”. Kaçar has put emphasis on the notion of survivors’ rights stating it is a rights violation to not respect a survivor’s rights, and reiterated that “using a child’s image in news can not be based on consent, and any kind of use of children for the adults’ world is abuse”. Kaçar also stated that this is a supra-political issue that should not be tolerated for being from one side or another.
RIGHTS-BASED JOURNALISM
On day 3, participants have been given their certificates for successful completion of the program. A communications group have been formed with the participants and dokuz8NEWS trainers, newsroom and editors.
