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Graduation Ceremony

Prishtina, 30 August 2004

31 08 2004  The first seven trainees to attend the IWPR Primary Journalism Course graduated from the three-month training initiative on August 30 in a ceremony in Pristina.

The first seven trainees to attend the IWPR Primary Journalism Course graduated from the three-month training initiative on August 30 in a ceremony in Pristina.

As part of the course, the trainees produced 13 stories which were published in the Balkans Crisis Report service.

The graduates received IWPR certificates from their trainers, Marcus Tanner IWPR Balkans editor and trainer, Jeta Xharra, IWPR Kosovo Project Manager and Tanja Matic, IWPR local trainer.

The seven trainees, Arben Salihu, Driton Maliqi, Krenare Kurtishi, Muhamet Hajrullahu, Mevlyde Salihu, Tanja Vujisic and Zana Limani, also had their articles published in local dailies such as Koha Ditore, Epoka e Re and Zeri as well as international websites such as Relief Web and Peace Woman.

The articles covered broad topics and issues such as women’s education in Kosovo, unemployment, emigration, the economy, minority issues and politics.

IWPR would like to thank the senior journalists who volunteered to talk to the students about their experience s during the course. These journalists were:

Tim Judah – a well-known journalist and author of books on both Kosovo and the Serbs
Kim Snegputa – a long-standing international reporter for the London-based Independent
Emily Harris – Berlin correspondent of National Public Radio, a US radio station
Kata Mester – spokeswoman for the Kosovo Ombudsman
Jackson Allers – a journalist with the Pacifica Radio and Free Speech Radio News
Nebi Qena – a journalist with the AFP news agency and Radio Television Kosova, RTK
Dugagjin Gorani – former Koha Ditore and Koha Vision editor.

The first Primary Level Journalism Course was supported by the OSCE.