- On the invitation of the U.S. Embassy in Dhaka, ERRA will conduct early in 2003 workshops for working news media professionals in that capital of Bangladesh and in the port city of Chittagong.
- ERRA is scheduled to return early in 2003 to China and Hong Kong to resume consulting and teaching at Guangdong University of Foreign Studies and Hong Kong University, continuing work started during five months of 2002.
- ERRA has an invitation from the Pakistan Press Foundation in Karachi to conduct training programs for working journalists at its news media and conference center, repeating a role Zeitlin played in 1998 for six months in Pakistan as a Knight Foundation International Press Fellow.
Editorial Research & Reporting Associates, Inc. (ERRA) is a select, worldwide news media consulting company with an emphasis on journalism training and education. ERRA will focus on Asia, particularly the Chinese mainland. Asia is a region of growing importance to the well being and security of the world and requires understanding and knowledge exchange.
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| Zeitlin (far left) with teachers at Guangdong University of Foreign Studies |
ERRA specializes in supporting news media staff training and journalism education in Asia, the United States and elsewhere at the graduate and undergraduate level, organizing in Asia, the United States and elsewhere training workshops, seminars and conferences dealing with a wide range of topics related to the news media. ERRA will bring together trainers, host institutions participants, including working professionals, journalism faculty and students to create and conduct programs.
ERRA will assist in the development of training and educational materials in English and Chinese for news media personnel in China as well as developing briefing and instruction guides for foreign trainers assigned to work in China. This activity may be expanded to provide briefing for foreign commercial interests wishing to deal with the news media in China.
ERRA is planning to develop for commercial distribution products such as periodical bulletins and commentary about the contents of the Chinese news media as obtained through monitoring of the Chinese news media through the Internet. Nearly 600 Chinese daily newspapers are on line. Materials are to be developed for production on a daily, weekly and monthly basis. They also will be assembled by subject, such as politics, finance and economy, social trends, lifestyle and commercial opportunities, etc.
Chinese government press restrictions and the sensitive nature of this aspect of the firm’s work require ERRA to conduct research and development in the United States. However, ERRA looks forward to eventually establishing offices in China and elsewhere in Asia.
