PESHAWAR
A three-day training workshop on ‘Crises Reporting’ was kicked off here on Saturday to enhance capacity building of journalists during natural deserter reporting.
The training was conducted by Tribal News Network (TNN) and renowned senior journalist Trainer Aurangzaib Khan who told the participants to carefully compile data before filing the story on any natural disaster.
He said that a journalist can play an active role to aware people about precautionary measures and to develop a liaison with Humanitarian Partners in future.
He said that a journalist should work to divert the attention of the federal, provincial departments and humanitarian partners in order to minimize disaster risks, identify hazards, risks and resource mapping for minimizing disaster risks and ensuring timely coordinated response.
He said that during natural disasters people should be made aware to tackle and minimize the impact of natural calamities.
He further said that tools for data collection should be developed during filing a news story including information regarding district and sector specific hazards and vulnerability profile, hazard impact, damages, compensation paid, resource mapping, need assessment and coordination.
