OSCE Presence organizes first mobile journalism training for journalists of Albania’s public broadcaster

The OSCE Presence in Albania organized two, three-day training sessions on how to film and edit stories on smartphones that ended on 24 September 2020.  Twenty-five journalists from Albania’s public broadcaster RTSH participated. The mobile journalism course – the first of this kind for RTSH – marks the start of a year-long professional training programme run by the OSCE Presence as part of the EU-funded Media in Focus project.

Twelve Tirana-based journalists and 13 correspondents from RTSH local studios in Shkodra, Kukës, Gjirokastra and Korça attended the online training, conducted by the European Broadcasting Union expert Glen Mulcahy. He provided the participants with mobile journalism skills, introduced them to a series of relevant applications, and guided them in producing their first stories on their smartphones.

“Mobile journalism is the future, thus journalists need to be equipped with new digital skills which make their job easier and more interesting for the public. This training was a first step in this direction,” said Bledar Zaganjori, RTSH news director.

Over the course of the Media in Focus project, the OSCE Presence aims at strengthening the Albanian public broadcaster through capacity-building for journalists and the production of new flagship programmes. It also aims to improve and modernize the curricula of the Albanian Public School of Journalism. Future training courses envisaged in the project will focus on investigative reporting, editorial judgement, principles of public service media, as well as on using social media and social networks for newsgathering.