Media are channels of communications with immense power to teach, persuade, and mobilise domestically and internationally anonymous mass audiences. Media bridges relations between government and people. It narrates national political, economical, social, and security interests of a nation to attain the national objectives of continued sovereign existence as a member of global community of states in international relations (IR).Media without practitioner journalists is similar to a gun without bullets. Journalists play a pivotal role in media agenda framing, content setting and news production. Hence, under swiftly changing national and global situations it is paramountly significant to capacitate the media practitioners with timely required knowledge, skill, and attitude as vibrant media professionals to discharge their responsibilities unwaveringly. It is in this interconnection that the Ethiopian Media Center of Excellence has come up with a module to undertake an on job training for trainees who would be recruited from different media houses of the country to get trained with modules structured into several units of which COME 04 is one amongst others.Media and National Interest-COME 04 unit module is a component of the whole module. The presently existing world is highly complex more than ever in history in international relations (IR). Media journalists have to be conscious and deeply understand the current internal, regional, and international situations that are on constant motion filled with continuities and changes. It is in this interrelation that this unit is designed. The unit is structured into five sub-units structured .in logically sequenced manner to impart added knowledge and skill to the participant trainees.
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