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24 12 2008 Vranje _ BIRN Serbia launched a multi-year project “Building Public Awareness in Multiethnic Areas”, supported by the UK Government, in Southern Serbia.
The
program is designed to contribute to the reduction of tension in multiethnic
communities and develop objective media reporting through media training that
both develops journalistic skills and allows local journalists to develop a
better understanding of political and social context of the area.
The first
activity in the programme was a five day ‘in - house’ training session in
“Vranjske” - an independent weekly in Serbia’s southern city of Vranje. A group
of experienced trainers worked hands on with journalists, editors and technical
staff, helping them to prepare one weekly edition of the newspaper. The trainers
tackled important issues such as respect for the highest professional standards,
making reporting more relevant to the readership, improving editorial policy
and procedures and the market positioning of the
newspaper.
This
training was the first of many – during the first year of the programme there
will be three similar events followed by the publishing of four supplements of
Vranjske, aiming to provide in-depth reporting of important issues in this
region of Southern Serbia.
Within
the wider scope of the programme for media and journalists in Southern Serbia,
in addition to implementing basic and advanced training and editorial mentoring
for journalists, BIRN will produce high quality coverage on political and social
developments in Serbia’s southern province, organise web journalism workshops
and hold a series of round table discussions.
The “Building Public
Awareness in Multiethnic Areas” programme was launched on December 10, 2009 and
will run until mid 2011 and is supported by the UK Government’s Conflict
Prevention Pool.
At the beginning of 2010 BIRN network published Digging Deeper - A Guide for Investigative Journalists in the Balkans, written in cooperation with Sheila Coronel, Director of the Stabile Center for Investigative Journalism and professor of professional practice at Columbia University, New York.
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