Current Activities

The IJMMT completed work in Jordan in June 2008. We are now preparing for a new grant.

 

hat is This About?

 

In the fall of 2003, the IJMMT conducted an 8-week print journalism training session for fifteen Egyptian journalists. The daily journal is found under the "Session" link to the left.

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In 2001, WKU and Internews formed the International Journalism and Media Management Training (IJMMT) program as a collaboration among Western Kentucky University's Public Broadcasting, Western's School of Journalism and Broadcasting, and Internews Network, an international non-profit organization that supports open media worldwide. WKU and Internews have previously collaborated to train broadcast and print journalists, editors and managers from Indonesia, Cambodia, and Egypt.

Early in 2006, the IJMMT started work with Yarmouk University in Jordan to build a community radio station and establish new curriculum standards for journalism study there. The IJMMT also began collaboration with the Jordanian Hashemite Fund for Human Development to develop a women's radio production unit to produce radio programs to address women's and family issues in Jordan.

The IJMMT's mission is to create cadres of media professionals who are prepared to institute and defend journalistic excellence and contribute to the development of civil society.

Since July of 2001, the IJMMT has been a premier international exchange for working journalists and media managers engaging in an intensive program of journalism study and internship. The IJMMT program offers a combination of strong US-based and in-country training components.

The US-based program focuses on concentrated individual and small-group instruction through seminars and residencies at WKU's Public Broadcasting facilities and School of Journalism and Broadcasting, drawing on the university's celebrated broadcasting staff and journalism school faculty, as well as access to some of the nation's top news and media management professionals. Training also includes the development of journalism and media management curricula with foreign universities, creation of training handbook for journalists and media managers, and establishment of independent media outlets in partner countries.

Follow-up work in each partner country fosters effective advocacy and continuing education for the larger media communities.