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Cambodian journalists and senior editors have expressed strong support for the Cambodia Institute for Media Studies (CIMS) to continue more training on investigative reporting for local reporters. “Training never ends,” said Mr. Pen Samitthi, President of the Club of Cambodian Journalists. He added that CIMS should expand its training beyond investigative reporting to include online journalism, layout and editing and photography. “The more [training places] we have, the better it is,” he said. He said the current training under the Bachelor’s Degree Program provided by the universities is not enough, because very graduates would choose the career in journalism. “We need more training for professional journalists,” he said. Um Sarin, President of the Cambodian Association for Protection of Journalists, agreed. He said the creation of CIMS showed that Cambodians could now work independently after they had inherited the skills from their expatriate colleagues. “I want donors to provide more funding for more training,” he said, adding “Khmer journalists need any kind of training. He said investigative reporting needed proper training, because journalists could not just write an unprofessional and unethical story. |
