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Doha, Qatar: Qatar News Agency (QNA) launched a five-day training course on Sunday titled "The Journalist Correspondent: Field Reporting," as part of the 2026 training plan of the QNA Training Center.
The course, presented by Mohammed Al-Hadi Karmous, a media expert and senior editor at QNA, targets media personnel interested in news coverage, including event and conference reporting, interviewing, and crisis management, with a focus on field reporting skills in news agencies.
The program aims to enhance journalists’ on-the-ground reporting skills and develop their ability to secure news scoops while adhering to standards of accuracy and publication speed. It also highlights the use of modern technologies and AI, including smartphone applications, to support journalistic performance and handle crises, emergencies, and the pressures of live coverage.
The course addresses several key topics, most notably the fundamentals and objectives of news coverage, different forms of media coverage across various platforms, the characteristics of a field reporter, mechanisms for teamwork within news outlets, management of major event coverage, media crisis handling, and the use of modern digital tools to support field journalism performance.
The course comes as part of QNA's effort to develop national media competencies and keep pace with rapid developments across various media fields, thereby enhancing the quality of media production.
The agency launched the QNA Training Halls in 2023, equipped with the latest technologies, to serve as an integrated platform for building media capabilities and keeping up with global developments in modern media.
