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Montenegro reporters to receive primary level training

February 24-28, 2006

28 02 2006  From February 24 to 28, BIRN Serbia and Montenegro will conduct a primary level journalism training course for a wide range of Montenegrin reporters.

From February 24 to 28, BIRN Serbia and Montenegro will conduct a primary level journalism training course for a wide range of Montenegrin reporters. Up to ten participants are expected to join the course, which will be held in Podgorica's PR Centre. Composed of reporters from different ethnic and journalistic backgrounds, the group will form the core of a Balkan Investigative Reporting Network team in Montenegro.

Well-known British journalist Tim Judah will open the course. The author of "The Serbs: History, Myth and the Destruction of Yugoslavia" and "Kosovo: War and Revenge," Judah will share his extensive Balkans experience with the Montenegrin journalists, with a focus on reporting from war zones as a freelance journalist.

The training will be led by BIRN's development and editorial director Gordana Igric and Balkan editor and trainer Marcus Tanner, together with BIRN Serbia director Dragana Nikolic-Solomon.

Training will focus on basic international standards such as feature writing and news analysis, structure, sourcing and international libel. After the course, the BIRN Montenegrin team will begin writing articles under the close supervision and mentoring of BIRN staff.

Their articles will be featured in a special issue of Balkan Insight focused on Montenegro.

BBC Belgrade correspondent Matt Prodger and Gertraud Illmeier of the Austrian daily Die Presse will be guest lecturers.

The workshop is part of the three-year-long Minority and Training Project, which was launched in 2005 with the support of the British embassy in Belgrade through the UK government's Global Opportunities Fund.

For more information on how to get involved, please contact Dragana Nikolic-Solomon at dragana@birn.eu.com.