The Friends For Friends Foundation, the organizer of the Superwriting Awards Gala, an initiative that annually recognizes the best journalism in the country, and ING Bank Romania, organize the Superwriting Workshops, a series of workshops dedicated to the specialization of journalists, with a focus on the economic area, between April and June.
The workshops will take place at the ING Communication Hub in Bucharest. In the first part (April 9-10), journalist Mona Dîrțu will address the principles of journalism, starting from journalism versus “content” and going through all the phases of documentation, writing and editing. In the second part of the program (June 4-5), journalist Alina Mărculescu Matiș (Panorama.ro) will address economic and business journalism, exploring tools that make working with numbers simpler and less intimidating for the journalist and his audience likewise, and Valentin Tătaru (macroeconomist-chief of ING Bank Romania) will have a presentation about macroeconomics, about how the information given by a macroeconomist can be read with the press and what is their relationship.
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“In newsrooms that find it increasingly difficult to afford to invest in the hyper-specialization of journalists in a corner of a field, the economic journalist has become a very hard-to-find resource. Beyond news about stock indices and reports that are either too dry or too honeyed of companies, what does it mean today to do economic journalism on the media market in Romania? Do you have to have passed the ASE to be able to speak correctly and competently about inflation? How do you tell a story about money without burying it in numbers and statistics? We will find out such information at the economic journalism workshop”, said Alina Mărculescu Matiş, editor-in-chief of Panorama.ro.
The workshops are aimed at both experienced journalists and new generations of journalists, being useful in several directions, as Alexandra Cantor, director of the Friends For Friends Foundation, also declares: “We live in an age of hyperspeed. Including journalists, who have to learn this job quickly. They don’t have the time to study a certain subject more, they don’t have the luxury of specializing in a certain field, they must always be ready to give the story, the material, the article to the public. The Supersrieri workshops can be, for some, an opportunity to “review the subject”, and for others, an excellent opportunity to learn and deepen some fields, techniques and journalistic tips&tricks.”
At the same time, the initiative of this program is also part of the mission of ING Bank Romania to support the increase in the level of financial education, as stated by Silvia Jalea, Head of Internal & External Corporate Communication: “The health of the society we live in also depends on the health of the media, and we see proof of this fact in many countries around the world. I believe that all of us who can contribute to a better health of the media must and do so in order to have the relevant topics on the public agenda, the necessary debates and a better informed public. One of the important components in this process is the financial health of Romanians, a cause for which ING Bank Romania makes constant efforts. The project with the Friends For Friends Foundation is another piece of a complex puzzle that also includes relevant products, education campaigns and partners with the help of which we have a punctual and measurable impact in the lives of Romanians. We hope that these workshops will help to professionalize the journalistic guild in the economic sphere, but above all to strengthen an ecosystem of correctly understood, correctly written and then correctly read information.”
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