Seminar About Studies and Professional Media Work Experience
On Wednesday, February 16th, 2022 Eva Hussein Omar, one of the graduates of Department of Media at Cihan University – Erbil in 2017 visited the department. In the presence of the lecturers of the Department of Media and a number of students of the first stage, the reporter, Eva presented a seminar in Cihan Academy Hall, about her choice to study in the Department of Media – Cihan University and her professional media experience.
Eva is one of the female journalists who worked for more than 7 years in the K24 satellite channel in Erbil. She worked in several fields such as editing, news editing, preparing reports, press investigations and photography, as well as working as a news reporter and covering many conferences and festivals inside and outside Erbil, in addition to working in the field of Simultaneous news translation from English into Arabic as well as into Kurdish.
At the beginning of her seminar, Eva talked about her desire to study media and her choice of Cihan University – Erbil, and how she was motivated to start her professional media work since the second year of her university studies.
Eva stressed the need to link and employ the information they receive during their theoretical studies with professional field work, as well as the need to seize the opportunities offered by Cihan TV and Radio to students in the field of practical training and media work since they entered the media department, as these field opportunities qualify them to work professionally in many institutions for media after graduation.
She also pointed out the importance of the journalist having a general knowledge about culture and being informed in all fields and trying to acquire languages other than the mother tongue, as this is one of the basics of the media’s success at the present time.
At the end of her speech, the students asked her many questions and inquiries about the nature of media work, its fields, and the difficulties that hinder media professionals today. It should be noted that Eva Hussein Omar was ranked first among the graduates of the Department of Media for the year 2017, and is currently student of (Master) in one of the media colleges in France.