Chisinau, November 12th 2006, 18.04

The training took place at 11th of November, at AVI-Moldova’s office. It was facilitated by Alina Dabija, YTNF volunteer. The target group of the training where YTNF volunteers.

During the 3 hours of the training, the participants where familiarized with the steps that should be taken in order to organize a Press Conference, to write a Press Release or a Newsletter. The whole information was structured in two sessions, which consisted of the following topics:

Session 1:

• Press Conference preparing - Crucial (eventual) factors
• Models (guides) and empirical methods concerning the organization
• Press Release - Structure, redactation and elaboration within examples
•  „Writing a Press Release” - team work 
• „Press Conference process” - role play in the ground of prior steps 

Session 2:

• Newsletter - definition to the concept
• The Newsletter scheme
• Writing a news for the Newsletter – practical methods
• Reversed pyramid – the most frequent method for the elaboration of an agency news
• Training evaluation – information review, discussions and suggestions

Alina Dabija says that the best reward for her work is the fact that the participants to the “Press Conference, Press Release and Newsletter framing” training concluded the received information as to be useful and practical for their future activities.

by Carolina Secrieru