In October the Institut National de l’Audiovisuel (INA) and the Académie France Médias Monde hosted 36 journalists from North Africa for two weeks of training, according to a joint press release. Entitled “Theory and practice in France”, the session was conducted in Arabic and French to technicians and journalists under 40 years old from Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia.
In each of the modules, INA supervised the training while France Médias Monde hosted interns in the newsrooms at their three channels (RFI, France 24 and Monte Carlo Doualiya).
Created in 2014 by INA and France Médias Monde, the operation was financed and coordinated this year by the regional mission of the Service de Coopération et d’Action Culturelle at the French Embassies in Tunis, Rabat and Algiers. It will be repeated in 2016 with North Africa, although a press release adds that it is hoped to develop the scheme “as widely as possible internationally”.
