Development Programme for the Women Journalists
Development Programme for the Women Journalists Project period: 30 September 2012 – 29 September 2013 Funded by: The American Center, Dhaka This was a 12-month project. Objectives of the project was to encourage the young women to choose journalism as profession and promote gender equality in journalism profession in Bangladesh. Under the project 20 young […]
Development Program for Women Journalists
Development Program for Women Journalists Period: September 2011- August 2012 Funded by: The American Center, Dhaka The project objectives were to encourage young women to choose journalism as their career and promote gender equality in the field of journalism in Bangladesh. The 12-month project awarded 20 young women graduates for a nine-month fellowship on practical […]
Girl Power Project
Girl Power Project Support by: Plan International Period: July 2011-December 2015 A number of countrywide activities were undertaken under the project in order to combat gender based violence against girls and young women. Possible activities of the project included motivating grassroots-level journalists to increase issue related reports and coverage, six month fellowship on journalism for […]
Media Development Programme
Media Development Programme Project period: Jan 2011 – December 2013 Supported by: Free Press Unlimited The project was launched to support the development of professional ability of journalists working from remote districts, and provide fellowship on journalism to young women journalists to build up a pool of female journalists’ trainers in Bangladesh. Accordingly, the project […]
Motivational Programme for Sensible Journalism, Phase 1
Motivational Programme for Sensible Journalism, Phase 1 Period: August 2010 – December 2010 Supported by: Taiwan Foundation for Democracy (TFD) With financial assistance from TFD, News Network organised sensitisation workshop on sensible journalism for 40 local journalists in two remote districts of the country. The journalists were given training of better understanding on ethical issues […]
Capacity building for journalists of three hill districts
Capacity building for journalists of three hill districts Supported by: UNESCO/IPDC Project period: June 2010- May 2011 The project was launched in June 1, 2010. Under the project curriculum News Network organised three different one- month long training sessions in hilly districts i.e. Khagarachari, Bandarban and Rangamati of Bangladesh. The idea of training the journalists […]
Motivational Programme on Sensible Journalism, Phase II
Motivational Programme on Sensible Journalism, Phase II Supported by: Taiwan Foundation for Democracy (TFD) Project period: April 2010-December 2011 This is the second phase of an ongoing project supported by Taiwan Foundation for Democracy (TFD) since 2010. Under the project activity, in 2011, a two-day long motivational workshop was organised in Dhaka for trainee journalists […]
Capacity Building for Journalists
Capacity Building for Journalists Period: January 2010 to June 2010 Supported by: Free Voice The six-month long project, aimed to develop a group of journalists and conduct six-month advance training for female journalists, was completed as scheduled successfully. Under the project activities New Network organised three different ToT programmes (Training of Trainers) in Bogra, Khulna […]
Fellowship Program for Women Journalists
Fellowship Program for Women Journalists Supported by: USAID PROGATI Period: 15 July 2009 – 31 December 2010 The project awarded 40 women journalists for a six-month fellowship on journalism. The fellowship included three-month in-house training and three-month internship in the country’s major national print and electronic media. The fellowship emphasised on improvement of fellows’ capacity […]
Education Programme for Harijan Children
Education Programme for Harijan Children Supported by: Anne Frank- Fonds Project period: July 2008 – 2013 The project was initiated in 2008 under the assistance of Anne Frank-Fonds, a Swiss based donor agency, and completed successfully. News Network started the project with a view to supporting the educational needs of the Harijan Children. Two elementary […]