Damascus-SANA
The specialized workshop on community solutions journalism continued its sessions for the second day in a row at the Center (Lifelong Learning), focusing on the need to provide safe, feasible and long-term solutions that fit the reality of Syrian society and are economically feasible within this type of journalism.
During the first session, chaired by the Director General of the General Authority for Radio and Television Habib Salman, a number of participants presented samples of press materials that simulate solutions journalism and were published earlier in various local media.
Dean of the College of Mass Communication, Dr. Bari’a Choucair, confirmed in a statement to SANA that community solutions journalism is not new to the media, as it is part of investigative journalism, and its importance lies in choosing the topic and title, defining and describing the problem and motivating the public to participate in proposing solutions to be the participation of institutions and community members, in addition to following up on the implementation of these solutions.
For his part, journalist Kayan Jumaa indicated that the workshop’s goal was to crystallize the concept of solutions journalism and to devote its practical and scientific standards, especially since Syria desperately needs this type of journalism to highlight the solutions offered by the Syrian society on all economic, social, cultural and other levels, indicating that his intervention in the workshop included a presentation of press material. In its content, it referred to one of the solutions presented by an officer in the Syrian Arab Army regarding strengthening the protection of military vehicles.
The second session, chaired by Deputy Minister of Information Ahmed Dawa, dealt with a scientific intervention by Dr. Tala Al Yamani and presentations of various media materials that were close in content to solutions journalism.
Journalist Amer Deeb considered that the goal of the workshop is to frame solutions journalism within a single approach that is being worked on as journalism that bridges the trust gap between the media and the public and helps interact more, presenting one of the work models that was about the problem of children staying for long periods at home during the repercussions of the spread of the Corona virus. How did the people overcome this problem?
The presenter and presenter, Hadeel Jaafar, indicated that the workshop contributes to setting scientific standards that help the journalist to apply journalism solutions on the ground, pointing to an example of it, which is the presentation of the (transport crisis) in many regions and the various proposals submitted by citizens to solve this crisis.
The specialized workshop in the journalism of community solutions, launched yesterday by the Ministry of Information and the Syrian Virtual University, continues until tomorrow, under the title “Towards a digital media that spreads a positive, motivational culture.”
Tarek El-Sayed - Mada Alloush
