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Past Programs in Eastern Europe and Central Asia

The International Center for Journalists has a strong network of alumni journalists from our programs in Eastern  Europe and Central Asia.
 
For decades, the International Center for Journalists’ International Journalism Exchange has brought experienced newspaper, broadcast or online editors from the developing world to the U.S. to observe how media are managed here.   Read More...

Sponsored by the Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund, this program was designed to boost the capacity and motivation of journalists in the Caucasus region to report on conservation of biological diversity. The program was tailored to address the key issues facing each country, such as better management of protected areas, increasing the number and size of protected areas, controls on damaging activities, and other conservation issues of public interest. Journalists from Azerbaijan, Armenia, Georgia, the republic of Dagestan and other southern Russian republics will be trained to cover biodiversity effectively, accurately and interestingly while engaging local conservationists to effectively voice their messages to the media, government and public.   Read More...

The International Center for Journalists administered a ten-day  professional development program for Serbian senior editors and media managers. Visiting journalists have the unique opportunity to meet with many media professionals in the U.S. and participate in in-depth focus groups and workshops.

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The International Center for Journalists administered a ten-day intensive professional development program for five senior editors from Macedonia from late October to early November.   Read More...

Readers and listeners all over the world enjoyed special insight into the U.S. presidential election as a result of the Elections 2008 Visiting Journalists Program, which brought 48 journalists from 46 countries to cover the historic campaign and vote.

 The program, which ran from Oct. 22 to Nov. 6, was designed to let the journalists see American democracy at work. To achieve that goal, it placed them at the center of the electoral storm. The program was sponsored by the U.S. State Department's Foreign Press Center.

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Knight International developed a comprehensive database and guide for journalists to investigate and expose corruption in the Balkans and Eastern Europe. Knight Fellow Paul Radu, co-founder of the Romanian Center for Investigative Journalism, trained scores of reporters to use these new tools to break stories.   Read More...

ICFJ-Baku was a partnership between ANS-TV in Baku and the International Center for Journalists in Washington, DC. The project’s goal was to improve the standards of journalism in Azerbaijan by providing interested journalists with practical skills and in depth investigative reporting training.
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The Armenian School of Journalism, a two-year international master's degree program at Yerevan State University, aimed to promote free, independent and professional media in Armenia through quality Western-style educational and training programs in journalism and media management.   Read More...

The International Center for Journalists (ICFJ), and its partner organization in the Caucasus -- the Georgian Institute of Public Affairs (GIPA) administered a two-year Master's-level certificate program at the Caucasus School of Journalism and Media Management. The overall goal of the graduate-level program was to strengthen the role of independent media in the emerging democratic societies of the Caucasus.   Read More...






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For more information contact:

Michelle Mathew
Program Officer
mmathew@icfj.org

Mario Scherhaufer
Program Director
m
cherhaufer@icfj.org

Rob Taylor
Director of Environmental Programs
rtaylor@icfj.org

Ting Wang
Program Officer
twang@icfj.org

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