ICFJ brought together media professionals from Armenia, Turkey and the United States to introduce to them new skills and help develop professional relationships and partnerships that helped all parties better understand—and work with—one another.

Knight International Journalism Fellow Timothy Spence completed eight months of journalism training in Armenia in 2006, partnering with the New Times Journalism Training Center.

Knight International Journalism Fellow Ramon Mena Owens (deceased) completed three months of journalism training in Armenia and Azerbaijan in 2003, partnering with Patker Photo Agency.

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.

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.

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.

Students were trained to assume news and management positions at newspapers, news agencies, broadcast outlets and Web-based publications.