Please note that although this event is free of charge participants must register to attend #RB17
Journalists: 10am till 2pm
Belief groups: 11.30am till 4pm
Last November, we brought together journalists and representatives from the spectrum of beliefs and ideology in Wales for a day’s workshop on religious literacy and the reporting of belief.
On May 10th, BBC Wales will host a follow-on event that will feature a joint session and networking lunch for journalists and belief groups to allow more time for discussion and interaction.
There will be a separate workshop for journalists in the morning (see speakers below) and in the afternoon, our partners The Centre for Community Journalism (C4CJ) will deliver a media and social media training session for belief group representatives.
10.00am: Journalists arrive: tea/coffee
10.15am Journalists only session:
Muslim communities – connecting with the grassroots
11.30am: Faith group media reps arrive. Networking Break
12.00 Dr Michael Munnik, Cardiff University chairs discussion
1pm Networking lunch. Journalists leave at 2pm
2-4pm Belief groups only:
Media & social media training session by C4CJ
Workshops:
10.15 till 11.30: Journalists-only session
Muslim communities: connecting with the grassroots
Three BBC journalists from different backgrounds give their tips for making connections at grassroots level – whatever your gender, ethnicity, religion or language skills.
Sajid Iqbal is a senior broadcast journalist with BBC News in London. Born in Pakistan, he became a reporter for the country’s leading English language newspaper Dawn before moving in 2001 to the BBC Urdu service in London. In 2016 he carried out the investigative journalism behind a BBC Radio 4 series, The Deobandis, about Britain’s largest mosque network. He now works as a UK community affairs specialist for BBC Newsgathering. He is also a visiting fellow at the London School of Economics, Centre for the Study of Human Rights.
Yasminara Khan is a journalist at BBC Newsnight where she produces reactive discussions and interviews for the nightly programme. She also spends much of her time investigating stories about issues affecting British Asian women. In 2016, she carried out the investigative journalism behind two reports on how the South Asian male kinship system had been used within the Labour Party to sabotage attempts by some British Asian women to obtain political office. In 2015 she investigated a story about “slave wives” – women from India who were being kept as domestic slaves by their British Asian husbands. Her work won the TV Report of the Year at the Asian Media Awards in both 2015 and 2016.
Innes Bowen is the author of Medina in Birmingham, Najaf in Brent: Inside British Islam, a book about the networks behind the UK’s mosques. She wrote the book while working as a producer and editor of BBC Radio 4 current affairs programmes such as Analysis and More or Less. Innes is in charge of investigations at BBC Newsnight.
2pm – 4pm: Belief groups-only session
Media and Social Media training
Emma Meese and Matthew Abbott from the Centre for Community Journalism at Cardiff University will give an inside view of the newsroom, how it works and how media representatives from the belief communities can best engage with the media. The session will also cover the use of social media for engagement with stakeholders & the media and writing an effective press release that will help get coverage for your organisation.
This is a ticketed event but we are able to offer it free of charge thanks to our funding from Welsh Government, the BBC hosting and providing lunch and C4CJ providing the afternoon training session.
