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Press release Belgrade, 13 April 2005
13 04 2005 Participants in the Institute for War andPeace Reporting, IWPR, Primary Level Journalism Course will receive certificates to mark the completion of their training at 12 noon on April 14 in Novi Pazar.
Participants
in the Institute for War andPeace Reporting, IWPR, Primary Level Journalism
Course will receive certificates to mark the completion of their training
at 12 noon on April 14 in Novi Pazar.
The awards will be presented by Dragana Nikolic-Solomon, director of
IWPR's office in Serbia, and Virginie Jouan, head of the media department
of the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe, OSCE, Mission
to Serbia and Montenegro.
During the three-month course, which began in December, the five participants
- including one journalist and two journalism students - received tuition
from top foreign journalists and IWPR editors from London and Belgrade.
As a result of this instruction, the trainees produced a special package
of articles focussing on the Sandzak region. The articles were published
in an IWPR newsletter and on the organisation's website, and were subsequently
republished in the media in Serbia, Kosovo and Bosnia, including in the
Belgrade daily newspaper Blic.
"This course was very important for local journalists and for the
opening up of Sandzak to the world, since this was the first time that
so many journalists from abroad have come here to lecture," said
Srdjan Djurdjevic of the OSCE, who took part in the project.
"I sincerely believe that all the candidates are great and that
all of them will have a future in journalism."
The team of trainees are currently working on a large-scale investigation,
due to be published in the next two months.
While the course was still in progress, two of them secured jobs with
local radio and television stations where they will go on to apply what
they have learnt.
All trainees will also have ongoing opportunities to take part in IWPR
training activities, and will receive practice with newspapers and radio
and television stations in Belgrade. They will also be encouraged to write
for IWPR and for the local media.
Over the next two years, the trainees will be put in touch with colleagues
from Kosovo, Bosnia, Montenegro, Romania, Bulgaria and Serbia as part
of the Balkans Investigative Reporting Network, BIRN.
IWPR has established BIRN, a network of local non-governmental organisations,
as a way of transferring its 12 years of experience in strengthening the
capacity of investigative journalism in the Balkans.
IWPR's Primary Level Journalism Course was financed by the OSCE Mission
to Serbia and Montenegro. Training took place in the offices of Urban
IN, an NGO promoting civil liberties in Novi Pazar.
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.
