Posted July 14, 2009

Eleven women journalists are participating in a Visual Storytelling Workshop at the Gaylord College July 11-21. The participants are experienced broadcast journalists from Bangladesh, Nepal and Pakistan.

OU students enrolled in the Electronic News Gathering class are teamed with the visiting journalists through July 21 to prepare broadcast news packages that the journalists will take back to their home countries and air on their respective news stations. The class is divided into teams representing each country and comprised of visiting journalists, undergraduate students, a graduate assistant and one faculty member each.

Friday, July 17 the South Asian journalists will tour the Oklahoma City National Memorial and Museum and participate in a workshop session with local reporters who covered the Oklahoma City bombing to discuss the similar situations in which reporters can find themselves in times of turmoil.

There will also be a special roundtable discussion on the state of journalism in South Asia hosted by Gaylord College Dean Joe Foote at 5 p.m. on Sunday evening in Gaylord Hall on the OU campus.

The Visual Storytelling Workshop is the product of a program created by the U.S. State Department and the Gaylord College of Journalism and Mass Communication and runs July 11 to 21. This is the second year of a three-year grant program developed by Gaylord College Dean Joe Foote. The first grant program concluded December 2007 and focused on developing leadership skills for Bangladeshi women journalists.