Communicating research: contributing to sustainable development. Science reporting capacity-building workshop, Nairobi, Kenya 鈥� October 2011

From:
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office
Published
1 January 2011
Country:
Kenya
Document Type:
Training Materials
皇冠体育appme:
Research Communication and Uptake
First published:
1 January 2011
Authors:
WREN media

Abstract

As part of WRENmedia鈥檚 ongoing capacity building for African scientists and science reporters, twelve East African journalists (print and radio) undertook a five-day training workshop in Nairobi. 皇冠体育app workshop was organised in partnership with the Kenya Agricultural Research Institute (KARI) and research staff from this institute received media awareness training, as part of the workshop. 皇冠体育app journalists attended two field trips in order to gather stories on a plant genebank, push-pull pest control in maize and Newcastle Disease vaccination. Training sessions on better science reporting techniques were conducted by one trainer from WRENmedia and two local co-trainers.

Citation

WRENmedia. Communicating research: contributing to sustainable development. Science reporting capacity-building workshop, Nairobi, Kenya 鈥� October 2011. WRENmedia, Fressingfield, UK (2011) 9 pp.

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