BNI newsroom management training completed

Chaing Mai, Thailand: The Newsroom management training of Burma News International (BNI) is completed today that held in Chaing Mai, the second capital of Thailand, said Fayas, the editor of Kaladan Press Network and a participant of the newsroom management training.
The training period is two months long and started since February 15, 2012 with the participants of 11-member including four females from different ethnic minorities across the Burma.

“Ko Zaw Gyi, one of the participants from Network Media Group (NMG) news group said, “I am very happy to attend this kind of training in my life. I know how to produce quality news and feature in future and I’m able to know many points that I did not know earlier.”

The participants are from Kachin, Karenni, Rakhine, Rohingya, Shan, Burman, Mon, Chin and Dawei nationalities.

Another participant, Ms Thazan Ni from BNI said. “I am very glad to get opportunity to attend such kind of newsroom management training. I have never been such in media training before. Earlier, I only read news not in detail but now I read news in detail as I have the knowledge of what is the good quality news. I want to attend such kind of training in future and decided to write news for practice after training.

Really, the training will be ended on April 11, but it is ended today because of Water Festival, according to the BNI official.

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