The preliminary survey carried out by the Committee to Protect Freedom of Expression revealed poor coverage of social and political issues by the regional media in Armenia. Local politics were largely neglected by the national media in the past and the voters from local communities had to rely on local and community media. Meanwhile, self-government elections are to take place in Armenia in September 2008 - July 2009. TV coverage of elections in the regions rarely goes beyond political endorsements of pro-government candidates. Regional newspapers are all struggling with miserably low...
Regions: Europe and North America
Building the Capacity of Community Radio Broadcasting Services to Cover Local Socio-Political Issues
Due to the war history of the region, investigative journalism has not been highly developed, and especially not in the form of co-production among TV stations in the region. On the other side, there is a great need for co-produced investigative stories, since many of the most important stories, like minority rights, return of refugees, organized crimes, etc., are regionconnected and need regional perspective. Unfortunately, PSBs in the region did not have any possibility to train their staff by themselves since public services broadcasters in the new democracies have continued to grapple...
The current media landscape in Republic of Moldova is still evolving. There are still some outlets that serve the state political interests and others that are dedicated to private economic interests. However, an increasing number of media, mostly print, as well as some regional radio stations declare to be independent and are learning to refrain from engaging in partisanship. Such media must turn into real public service to the inhabitants of the regions and meet their informational needs. Moldova's TV and radio stations operate in the capital of the Republic, but only two TV stations and...
Even though national media broadcast in the regions, the coverage of the topics is not complete, as they focus on national events and the life in the capital. The population of Yerevan, and more importantly national authorities and foreign organisations present in the capital, are not informed about the problems of the people of the regions; this has a negative impact on the development of the regions. Although the freedom of media is a constitutional right, the governmental censorship is still present. In particular, as every big television station is owned or controlled by political and...
The objective of the project was to improve the journalistic skills and professionalism of young journalists.
Period: 2000-2003
The creation of the Euro-Asian Association of Audio-Visual Arts, 'Vklad', was the culmination of a five-year experience aimed at preserving the professional links among television producers of the former USSR, now under the umbrella of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) and the Baltic States. The work of the Euro-Asian Association of Audio-visual Arts, strongly supported by UNESCO, consists of organizing on an annual basis, regional workshops for television producers, gathering professionals from CIS and Baltic countries and providing them with a regional forum for debate,...
The Media Plan Institute is based in the building of the University in Sarajevo and has several functions: To monitor and analyse the media situation in Bosnia Herzegovina as well as other countries of South-East Europe; To provide training to journalists from the sub-region; To animate a communication network for free and professional journalism in South-East Europe. The funds requested from IPDC were foreseen for the creation of the communication network in providing 12 PCs as well as to contribute to a workshop on free and professional journalism with participants form the whole sub-...
Period: 1999-2000
As early as 1992, following the independence of Macedonia, the Skopje authorities started making attempts to establish an independent news agency, the Macedonian Information Agency (MIA). However, for various political and financial reasons, it was impossible to implement the project at the time, and it was only revived in 1998. Its aim was to create a national independent news agency in a country that so far had none. UNESCO's assistance was requested in October 1998 and approved by the International Programme for the Development of Communication (IPDC), with an allocation of US$60,000 at...
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