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Global
| 'RD Training for Trainers' |
2006-2007
/ Global |
Recognizing that suitably experienced and skilled Reporting Diversity (RD) trainers are incredibly rare on the global media training market, MDI intends to train more of them on a regular, systematic basis. Development of a specialized reporting diversity trainers-training program and the resulting pool of highly trained professionals will benefit MDI but the industry as whole as well. The ‘Training of trainers – development of RD trainer cadre’ program will lay the foundation for a series of annual ‘train-the-trainers’ workshops, starting with a pilot training workshop, co-organized with MediaWise, at the beginning of November.
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Europe
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| 'Seeing
the Roma without prejudice' | |
2004-2006
/ Albania, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Macedonia, Serbia & Montenegro |
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large, two-year media diversity project that aims to help Roma communities overcome
discrimination, marginalisation and the violations of their rights through a process
of media education and empowerment, and increasing the amount of fair representation
of Roma voices in the media. The programme targets Roma journalists working in
both specialist Roma media and in the mainstream media; non-Roma journalists and
media outlets; Roma NGOs and community leaders.
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| 'Training the media, empowering minorities: a project for improved media coverage of ethnic and minority issues in the South Caucasus' |
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2003-2006 / South Caucasus: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, disputed territories |
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A large-scale, three-year media diversity project targeting journalists, media decision-makers, journalism academics, and minorities NGOs. Project activities range from producing manuals and conducting training workshops, to internships and TV and radio productions. The project aims to use the power of the media to create deeper public understanding of ethnic and other minority groups and their human rights in the countries of the South Caucasus.
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| Mentoring research fellows at the Central European University |
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Ongoing from 2002 / Central and Eastern Europe, former Soviet Union, and Mongolia
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MDI mentors fellows from the International Policy Fellowship (IPF) program of the Central European University (Budapest) and the Open Society Institute. The program supports research by civil society leaders in Central and Eastern Europe, the countries of the former Soviet Union, and Mongolia.
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Middle East and North Africa
| 'Creating an enabling environment for a free and diverse media: Professional Skills Training for women journalists in Iraq' |
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Ongoing from 2007 / Iraq |
A joint Article 19/ MDI project aims to ensure a more diverse and gender-sensitive media in Iraq by building the professional capacity of Iraqi women to access the media. The project would help ensure the crucial right of freedom of expression to women and vulnerable groups. Freedom of expression is a key underpinning of democracy. The series of activities outlined in this project would be targeted at women journalists and thus will raise their journalistic expertise and will ultimately benefit the public’s right to receive information through a diverse media.
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| 'Supporting the development of an independent, pluralistic and diverse media in Iraq' |
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Ongoing from 2007 / Iraq |
The envisaged programme aims to strengthen the legal and regulatory framework to protect media freedom and independence in Iraq by engaging stakeholders in a broad-based media law working group to adopt an action plan and reach consensus on two draft laws. The final goal of the project is to ensure a more diverse and gender-sensitive media and media reporting by training journalists to report on diversity and by producing a report on freedom of expression with a particular focus on issues facing women and minority groups. A 30-mins radio magazine on diversity-related issues has been produced.
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Asia
| "Reporting diversity for Jewish and Arab Israeli journalism students'' |
2006 - 2007
/ Israel |
A continuation of the successful project set up in 2004. This year a new generation of Jewish and Arab undergraduate journalism students from the Emek Yezreel College near Nazareth, will be exploring their own experience of otherness, coexistence and inclusion, especially in the aftermath of the recent crisis in the Middle East. The students will decide whether to produce a bi-lingual newspaper supplement, as in the pilot or to set up a webzine, or produce a video.
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| 'Reporting
diversity network Indonesia - pilot project' | |
Ongoing from 2004
/ Indonesia |
A study of the media
diversity situation in Indonesia to make an assessment as to whether MDI's work
would be useful and cost-effective in that country. If the assessment indicates
that MDI can play an effective and meaningful role in Indonesia, further consultation
with potential beneficiaries will culminate in the preparation of a media diversity
project for the region.
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