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.
Rockfeller Foundation Funded Project:
PIB has been organizing training courses, doing research and other different types of activities under the project of ‘’Making a march towards universal health coverage in Bangladesh; training up journalists and capacitating PIB since 2011.By this time PIB organized a seminar. A research work on ‘health reporting and universal health coverage in Bangladesh” is in the final stage. An exposure trip was held in Thailand with 8 members’ team, among them 4 were PIB officials and rest was journalists and academician.
