austraLasia #1889
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' agency.
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AustraLasia is an email service for the Salesian Family of Asia Pacific. It also functions as an agency for ANS based in Rome. For queries please contact admin@bosconet.aust.com . Use BoscoWiki to be interactive. RSS feeds - subscribe to www.bosconet.aust.com/RSS/rssala.xm Avail yourself of the Salesian Digital Library at at http://sdl.sdb.org. To contact austraLasia by voice on Skype, the Skype name is austraLasia1
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' agency.
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AustraLasia is an email service for the Salesian Family of Asia Pacific. It also functions as an agency for ANS based in Rome. For queries please contact admin@bosconet.aust.com . Use BoscoWiki to be interactive. RSS feeds - subscribe to www.bosconet.aust.com/RSS/rssala.xm Avail yourself of the Salesian Digital Library at at http://sdl.sdb.org. To contact austraLasia by voice on Skype, the Skype name is austraLasia1
