By Sherub Dorji | Assistant Programme Officer
Twenty-one gewog administrative officers (GAOs) attended a three-day media sensitisation workshop in Thimphu from 19 to 21 November 2014.
Aimed at making the GAOs effective in sharing public information, the workshop was part of the Bhutan Centre for Media and Democracy’s (BCMD) continuing series of media sensitisation workshops forGAOs.
For the past three years, BCMD has been organising various activities to create an informed and participatory society. Educating GAOs on the media has been one of them.
Besides learning about media ethics, the GAOs learnt the basics of writing news stories and press releases. Led by professional editors, the participants also learned self-editing and wrote a story each of their gewogs.
As in every media workshop for GAOs, the participants took part in a lively question and answer session with the members of the press.
The stories the GAOs wrote as part of a writing exercise were edited and posted on their blog http://gewogadministrativeofficers.blogspot.com/.
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