IPPTAR/AIBD/SKUM Regional Workshop on Convergent Journalism

The Institut Penyiaran dan Penerangan Tun Abdul Razak (IPPTAR), along with AIBD and UNESCO Malaysia (SKUM), completed the Regional Workshop on Convergent Journalism in Kuala Lumpur on 10-14 September 2012.

Dato’ Adilah Shek Omar, Director IPPTAR (center in front row), Mr Yang Binyuan, Director AIBD (right in front row) and Mr Thorsten Karg of Deutsche Welle’s DW Akademie (left in front row)

The workshop, held at the IPPTAR lab, was attended by 15 participants from local news organizations in Malaysia and journalists from government broadcast organizations in Indonesia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam. The workshop was conducted by Mr Thorsten Karg, Project Manager of Asia Division at Deutsche Welle Akademie.

The activity's focus was a practical exploration of the media convergence phenomenon. Participants were able to identify aspects of a current affairs story for different platforms and work journalistically across a variety of media.

During the course of the five-day workshop, participants worked on individual journalistic blogs and were required to employ various web-based media (text / photos / audio / video) in developing their news stories. The final blog posts were presented at the end of the workshop.