Mobilink to Enhance Telecom Journalists Reporting Skills
'Pakistan Times' Business & Commerce Desk

ISTANBUL (Turkey): Pakistan’s most popular largest mobile network operator, Mobilink Wednesday organized a media training workshop to enhance reporting skills of Pakistani journalists on Information Communication Technologies (ICTs) here.

Around 25 journalists from electronic as well as print media organizations from Pakistan were targeted for the workshop as part of Mobilink’s plan for expanding their professional telecom reporting skills.

An international media expert on telecom, Eileen M Wallis conducted the workshop which has been designed to introduce journalists to new ICT tools and techniques to polish their professional skills and identify additional stories, emerging in Pakistan’s growing telecom industry.

During proceedings of the course, the journalists were given lectures on reporting, ICT interviewing, investigative news stories and advanced technology systems.

The matters relating to role of regulator, Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA), changes and issues relating to telecom sector in Pakistan as well as abroad and needs of subscribers were the main topics discussed during the workshop.

The expert in lecture said that rapid changes are taking place in Pakistan’s telecom sector which has contributed a lot in generating employment opportunities and socio economic uplift of the country.

She said the telecom in Pakistan shows the progressive side and enables innovation from competitive operators, garnering international attention and acclaim.

The participants took keen interest in raising various questions regarding development and changes, occurring in Pakistan in telecom area which the trainer replied in a satisfactory manner.

Omar Manzur

Senior Manager Public Relations, Mobilink, Omar Manzur who was also participating the workshop said Mobilink being country’s market leader in cellular communication with a growing base of over 28 million customers is active in organizing regular training workshops as part of its Corporate Social Responsibility in further developing the professional capacities of journalists who report on telecommunications developments in Pakistan as well as abroad.

The Senior Manager said the company has been conducting training workshops and tours regularly for journalists in Pakistan and abroad and would continue this practice in future as well.

In this regard, he recalled the training workshop organized by Mobilink at Thailand ‘s Capital Bangkok in May last year with the objective of introducing new reporting techniques to reporters.

Senior members of Mobilink's Public Relations and Marketing department also attended the workshop.●