training journalists

There is still much demand for knowledge about Western journalistic practices in the emerging democracies of Eastern and Central Europe. With its knowledge of "both sides of the fence" and its collective journalistic and teaching experience, mpi is uniquely placed to provide workshops, seminars and training sessions for working journalists and students of journalism

environmental journalism

•  lecturing at eleven universities in eight NIS countries, 1997-1999
•  workshops for working journalists in Caucasus region, Belarus, Moldova, Ukraine, Russia and Mongolia, 1997-1999
• development of a training pack for schools of journalism and a training video, 1999
•  presentation of paper at "Communicating Science" international conference, University of Navarre, Spain, 1999
•  workshops in news writing for a Ukrainian environmental information NGO, Kiev, 2001
• workshop for journalists from 6 post-Soviet countries covering the Kiev Environment for Europe conference, Kiev 2003
• Workshop in environmental and health reporting, WHO regional conferences, London 1999, Budapest 2004
• course in environmental reporting, Caucasus School of Journalism, Tbilisi, 2003, 2005
• Environmental journalism workshop for TV and print journalists from 15 Asian countries, Sarawak, Malaysia, 2005

TV and radio journalism

• TV news workshop for Ukrainian STB TV channel, Kiev 2005
• Radio team reporting workshop for Georgian and Armenian journalists, Yerevan 2005

Legal journalism:

•  preparation and delivery of module at Caucasus School of Journalism, Tbilisi, 2002

Social advertising:

•  workshop for Romanian broadcast journalists, Bucharest, 1999

Community programming:

• workshops for Russian and Ukrainian radio journalists on creation of innovative "audio diary" format, Moscow and Kiev, 2000