جودة التدريب الإعلامي في الأردن = Quality of Media Training in Jordan

Abstract

The purpose of this study is twofold. The first is to explore the real aspect of media training in Jordan. The second is to assess the quality of media education and training from a journalist's perspective. In so doing, this study aims at shaping a scientific vision of the reality of training along with the required priorities in an attempt to match the quality standards for media training. This study is based on survey sampling, both descriptive and analytical. A sample of 212 journalists is drawn from all the 1800 Jordanian journalists working in civil, private and public, media institutions. By way of concluding, this study revealed that the level of quality training in Jordan is low from a journalist's perspective. Further, the methods of teaching journalism and media in Jordanian universities are not in line with the standards for quality education and qualification in media sectors. On the side, the problems hindering the development of the quality of media training are the weakness of trainers and trainees, the modesty in spending allocations on training, and poor coordination among the stakeholders of media training. Among other factors is also the absence of national independent institutions of media training. More importantly, this study emphasized that there is a statistical relation between the awareness of journalists of the resources of quality training and the kind of (whether private, contributed, public or governmental) ownership of media outlets