| Reporting
Diversity Network foundation project
| Region: | Macedonia
and the United Kingdom |
Micro- < $15,000
|
Small-$15,000-$100,000 |
Medium-$100,000-$500,000 |
Large-$500,000-$1 million |
Very large- >$1 million |
| Partners: | Centre
for Multicultural Understanding and Cooperation (Skopje) |
| Funders: | The
Freedom Forum |
Project objectives:
| • | The
introduction of a reporting diversity programme to Macedonia, spearheaded by the
production of a 'Reporting Diversity Resource Manual' in Macedonian language;
| | • | production
of a 'Trainers Guide to Reporting Diversity'; | | • | a
Reporting Diversity Conference (held in London in November 1998). |
Project
activities:
The
introduction of a reporting diversity programme to Macedonia - a country undergoing
increasing ethnic tension - took place. Aside from the resource manual, it included
the creation of a special reporting diversity supplement that focused on diversity-related
issues, to be published simultaneously in Dnevnik, Denas Weekly, Fokus Weekly
(in Macedonian language) and Fakti and Flaka (in Albanian language).
The 'Trainers Guide to Reporting Diversity' provided a valuable hands-on tool
for organizing reporting diversity workshops and seminars, and proved useful in
schooling the media in how to cover inter-ethnic relations in more sensible and
more professional way.
The Reporting Diversity Conference was held in
London in November 1998, and brought together current and potential reporting
diversity leaders from across Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet
Union to lay the groundwork for a greatly expanded and regionally integrated Reporting
Diversity Network program in 1999 and beyond. [NOTE: From this conference emerged
the first chapter - South East Europe - of the Reporting
Diversity Network that now forms the foundation of the Media Diversity
Institute's work]. | |
