Since 1976 PIB has been offering basic journalism training courses for newspaper, radio and television journalists, information officers, public relations personnel and extension workers. During the last 34 years PIB imparted training to 16730 participants arranging a total of 670 training courses.

Along with foundation courses PIB offers specialized training courses on sports reporting, economic reporting, energy reporting, reporting on women and children issues, gender issues etc. It organizes advocacy meetings and seminars on development journalism, climate change and environmental awareness, population and public health and digital Bangladesh sometimes as a part of the government campaign. PIB also arranges short courses on public relations, printing technology, photography and newspaper management.

PIB over the years has developed an intimate relationship with the journalist communities of the country which eases access to them and arrangement of training courses, workshops etc.

PIB has been conducting a one year diploma course from 2000-2001 academic year. So far 11 batches has completed PGD course from PIB.

Along with training courses PIB has developed necessary training materials being used both by the trainers of PIB and other similar organizations.

University teachers, economists, legal experts, planning experts, professional journalists and foreign journalists are invited to conduct training sessions along with PIB trainers.

PIB is associated with Commonwealth Press Union (CPU), Commonwealth Journalists Association (CJA), Thomson Foundation, International Institute for Journalism ( IIJ), Asian Media Information and Communication Center (AMIC), Press Foundation of Asia (PFA), and other international and regional mass media training and research institutes.

Development Projects:

Unicef and GoB funded Project:
PIB has been conducting training and feature programmes under the project Advocacy and Communication for the Children and Women with the financial help of UNICEF and GoB since 1996. Third phase of this project is going on  is full swing. PIB organizes training workshops for journalists on childlabour, corporal punishment, children and women development issues, arrange dialogue and publishes feature.

A2I Funded Project:
PIB implemented training Workshop on Digital Bangladesh at Divisional Headquarter with financial (partial) and technical help from the Access to Information Project (A2I) of Prime Ministers’ Office.

PLAGE Funded Project:
The Press Institute of Bangladesh has been organizing training workshops on Gender and Media with CIDA funded PLAGE (Policy Leadership and Advocacy for Gender Equality) Project. Since 2001 PIB by this time has  organized 5 (five) training workshops.  A training workshops will be organized in the current fiscal year. PIB has published a trainers toolkit to provide training on Gender and Media.

Proposed Projects:
Project proposals have been submitted to the Ministry of Information requesting fund to organize training workshops on Climate Change, Violence against Women and Right to Information Act. It is expected that if the proposal on RTIA, titled "Bridging between People's Rights and Social Change: Training of Media People on RTIA" is implemented, a total of 4500 journalists of the country including grass-roots areas will be aware of and active for people's information rights.