Beirut - University President John Waterbury, Geert Linnebank, Editor in Chief, Reuters, and Maureen Marlowe, Director, Reuters Foundation, will also take part in the official opening, reflecting a joint undertaking with the American University of Beirut.
Established as a result of collaboration between Reuters Foundation, Regional External Programs at the American University of Beirut, and the local Reuters office, the Reuters Foundation Newsroom is designed to provide a modern training facility for journalists in the Middle East.
The three partners are contributing different resources to the project. The American University of Beirut is providing the premises and technical support, Reuters delivers the live news services for training, and Reuters Foundation is sponsoring the 14 workstations, which carry a real-time Reuters news service, news photograph services and business information feeds, in addition to funding the newsroom's fixtures and fittings.
Writing Business News, organised by Reuters Foundation, will be the first course held at the Reuters Foundation Newsroom at the American University of Beirut and will run from 21 -25 January. The course is aimed at business journalists seeking to improve their writing, analysis and interviewing skills and their understanding of a market economy and its mechanisms.
Participating in the course will be journalists from major news agencies in Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, Sudan, Syria and Yemen.
The course programme, led by Training Editor, Toni Reinhold, and Editor in Charge, Clive McKeefe, both of Reuters America, is modelled on the established series of Writing Business News courses run by Reuters Foundation in London.
The Reuters Foundation Newsroom will host four Reuters Foundation training courses each year and newsroom facilities will be available to American University of Beirut students during term time.
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Lebanese Prime Minister, Rafic Hariri, will inaugurate a Reuters Foundation Newsroom at a ceremony on Friday 25 January at 6pm at the Ada Dodge Memorial Hall, American University of Beirut.
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About the American University of Beirut
The American University of Beirut is a private, independent, non-sectarian institution of higher learning, established in 1866, that functions under a charter from the State of New York. An autonomous Board of Trustees of leading citizens of the Middle East, Europe, and North America governs the University.
Since its founding by Dr. Daniel Bliss, AUB has grown from 16 students in a rented house to a major university with a student body of 6,600, located on a 73-acre campus overlooking the Mediterranean Sea. It has long set standards in higher education for the Middle East region.
The University offers a rigorous curriculum in the American liberal arts tradition and the language of instruction is English. The University stresses high academic standards and maintains a commitment to critical thinking, open debate, and mutual tolerance. AUB is coeducational and open to all qualified applicants without regards to race , sex, religion , nationality , or political affiliation.
AUB graduates (37,000) reside in approximately 90 countries worldwide. Most live in the Middle East. About 1,200 are in Europe and 5,500 in North America. Many hold leadership positions in education, government, banking, business, science, engineering, and medicine. AUB alumni have served as cabinet ministers, members of parliament, diplomats, governors of central banks, university presidents, and CEOs. Several have served their countries as presidents or prime ministers.
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