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The
CIJ puts special emphasis on training programs for the community media, international
training projects, diversity issues and new media. The Center also organizes workshops,
roundtable discussions, field trips and conferences on specific issues. The center
can host groups of 5-20 trainees for courses, workshops, seminars of several days
or weeks and also provides access to the computerized library and information
database of the Freedom Forum Foundation. The CIJ has built a solid partnership
with leading Hungarian and international media experts and influential journalism
trainig organizations. The
Center for Independent Journalism implemented several international projects,
including a week long training program for Bosnian investigative journalists (July
1999), a study tour for circulation managers of newspapers (September 1999) with
World Learning, and a seminar for Serbian journalists (February 2000) with USAID/IREX.
In 2001 the Center conducted one-week workshop on investigative reporting, computer-assisted
reporting, business management and press relations in cooperation with the South
East European Network for the Professionalisation of the Media. In
1996-2001 more than 800 Hungarian local journalists and media managers participated
in the ProMedia training programs supported by the USAID/IREX, and more than a
hundred trainees graduated from the BBC radio and television courses and workshops
at the CIJ. The
Roma Mainstream Media Internship Program at CIJ in 1996 was the first newsroom
diversification project in the region of Central and Eastern Europe and later
it served as a model in Slovakia and Romania. The purpose of the ten-month program
is to train talented young Romani for careers in the mainstream media. In 1996-2001
forty Roma journalists graduated at the Center. The
Center regularly organizes courses on reporting and editing skills and also workshops
on specialized reporting. It offers hands-on journalism courses and summer training
for high school students. This training programs are being conducted by experienced
Western and local media professionals.
DIRECTOR:
Sándor Orbán
ADDRESS: 1053 Budapest, Egyetem tér 5. I.em.7., Hungary
TELEPHONE:
+361 317 5448
FAX: +361 267 4613
E-MAIL: orban.cij@mail.datanet.hu
WEBSITE: http://www.ijf-cij.org | 
