Reuters Foundation and Tsinghua University organised an Olympic reporting workshop  in Beijing from August 13-17 2007.

The workshop was based on the first Olympic media outreach programme staged by Reuters Foundation and the IOC during the 2004 Athens Games.The five-day course was attended by 14 Chinese journalists from Beijing media organisations, including half a dozen representatives from CCTV.  The workshop examined the practicalities of Olympic reporting and devoted a full day to the coverage of doping, including a half-day writing exercise on drugs at the 2004 Athens Games.

End-of-course certificates were presented by Zhu Yinghuang, Editor-in-Chief Emeritus of the China Daily newspaper, who said the participants had found the workshop helpful and constructive.

It was the fifth in a series of Olympic reporting workshops organised in Beijing by Reuters Foundation in 2006-07. About 75 Chinese journalists have participated in the training courses in preparation for their role in covering the 2008 Games.

The August workshop followed two similar courses in April for journalists from Xinhua, China’s official news agency.The three 2007 courses were run by two veteran journalists, Steve Parry and Brian Williams, who between them worked for Reuters for over 70 years.

Parry was Sports Editor for 18 years and has been to 19 Olympics, and Williams was Chief Correspondent in a dozen countries and has covered seven Games.

The instructor for the 2004 Athens media outreach programme was former Reuters journalist Colin McIntyre, who has compiled a Reuters Foundation training handbook –“A Reporter’s Guide to Sports and Olympics Reporting” .

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