KnowledgeView and Ifra to provide Newsplex training workshops in the Middle East

Tuesday, 25 September, 2007

KnowledgeView and Ifra have signed a memorandum of understanding to cooperate in providing Ifra Newsplex training workshops in the Middle East region.

The two entities will jointly host these events, while KnowledgeView will manage and market them.

The training course will initially comprise the following:

  1. Two-day course on "Convergent Media Journalism" for publishers and editors-in-chief, to be presented in English. There will be at least three events from the first quarter of 2008, with the first course to be held in Kuwait on 30-31 January 2008.
  2. Two-day course on "Change Management" for publishers and editors-in-chief, to be presented in English. There will be two or three events during 2008, with the first one planned for Saudi Arabia in February 2008.
  3. 2 days course on "Multi-Media story telling" for editors, to be presented in English and Arabic. There will be two or three events during 2008, with the first course to be held in Kuwait on 28-29 January 2008.

The pricing and schedules for the courses will be found on Ifra's and KnowledgeView's websites.