Consultancy & Training Klik op de titels of op 'meer' om de gehele tekst te openen. Voice For Roma - An attempt to break the vicious circle' Spring 2007, eight representatives of the RAE-settlement Plementina, part of the community Obilisc, ten kilometre outside Pristina, came to the Kosovo Institute of Journalism and Communication (KIJAC) requisitioning assistance for a curriculum English. Their request was granted and during three months they enjoyed free lessons ..........'(more) KIJAC (Kosovo institute of Journalism and Communication) and investigative journalism' First an introduction, some definitions and conditions: Investigative journalism means the exposure of the problems of society. Investigative journalism is an attempt to look at the hidden side of the politicians, the businessmen, the people in power. Investigative journalism means looking for truth in an unbiased, honest way ..........'(more) 'Suggestions for improvements School of Journalism in Baku: ' The two local trainers and the Dutch trainer, regularly came together to have discussions about the course and the way to continue. They came with several proposals to do better. The director of the school mostly joined the meetings.........'(more) 'Report about my training-experiences in Baku from 5 until 22 December 2005.' This is a rather good news story. Indeed the first two days at the school of journalism in Baku were pretty tough because I needed to find a balance between discipline and desire in attending the course. It turned out to be effective. On the third day it happened that almost every student arrived at ten o’clock in the morning. So it continued until the last day........'(more) 'A job for passionate people' In the beginning was the word. Then came sound Then there was picture At the end it was all mixed up in internet. In this sequence. But most of all is the word. Print journalism. I call print the mother of all journalism........(more) 'Opening-week Kosovo Institute of Journalism & Communication (KIJAC)' Ladies and gentleman, colleagues, thanks for the opportunity to introduce the department of print journalism of the Kosovo Institute of Journalism and Communication. Particularly to the candidate-students I would say: congratulations. You are privileged people because you are now on the point of entering the fascinating world of journalism. I am sure that this new institute will lead to higher standards of journalism in this young country.......'(more) Visit to Radio Contact Plus, Radio Prizren and Urban FN - Report and recommendation On behalf of Press Now, I visited Kosova from the 17th till the 26th of March. Albana Shala asked me to visit Radio Contact Plus in Mitrovica and Urban FN in Pristina. Next she told me that Press Now is interested in knowing the possibilities for cooperation between Contact Plus, Urban FM and Radio Prizren. Also she demanded to discuss the need for training on the job. With the help of Nora Behluli, Press Now's representative in Pristina, I spent ten days all over the country to see the stations, to listen to the programs, to talk to staff and journalists and to find the answers.......'(more) 'Is het nieuws er voor de feiten?' We praten vanavond over de stelling: 'Journalisten verwaarlozen hun kerntaak en dat is onafhankelijke, feitelijke verslaggeving. Lezers, luisteraars en kijkers - ons publiek - worden daarom steeds vaker slachtoffer van gevolgtrekkingen uit voorbarige conclusies óf van manipulatie door voorlichters en woordvoerders.' Is dat zo?.......'(meer) 'Mission-report after an investigation to find possibilities to support the media in Transnistria' On behalf of Press Now, I visited the self-proclaimed republic of Transnistria(TMR, short for 'Transnistrian Moldovan Republic') from the 24th till the 27th of june 2003. I stayed in Chisinau, capital of Moldova. Away from there, I visited cities like Tiraspol, Bender and Ribitna in Transnistria. It is rather easy to pass the borderline, where in a small primitive semi-permanent building some security- and custom-officers watch over the original, from the former Soviet-Union inherited values of their socialist republic.......'(more) 'Introductory address on the role of journalists and media in peace building' First of all I want to tell you that I am a little bit confused. Looking through my files, I realized that in the recent years journalists and media more and more are considered as a panacea against all evil in society. I realized that there were appeals to journalists to join programs against corruption I saw reports about the task of a journalist as a promoter of good citizenship. I found papers about the role of journalists on covering minorities and inter-ethnic relations.......'(more) 'Bij de uitreiking van het tiende nummer van Rotterdams Accent, de krant van het journalistiek praktikum gegeven aan de Erasmus Universiteit' Welkom aan Frank van Vree die bijzonder hoogleraar is voor de pers en persvrijheid En aan Herman van Run die dat was. Leden van de universiteit, Studenten. Over enige momenten zal het eerste nummer van jaargang tien van het Rotterdams Accent worden uitgereikt Het is het blad van het journalistiek praktikum - kweekvijver voor de PDOJ. Dat zal Herman van Run uitvoerig vertellen. Ik zal iets over Herman van Run vertellen die alle voorgaande jaren het eerste nummer heeft uitgereikt. ......'(meer) 'Teacher's manuel, prepared and agreed by representatives of the faculties of Philology and Journalism of the universities of Almaty (Kazakhstan), Krasnodar, Moscow, Novgorod, Volgograd and Yaroslavl' Proposal for a practical course in journalism, duration (on a full-time basis): three months. Goal: to acquaint students of journalism with the practical fundamentals of the profession. Journalism is not a science, it is a craft, an attitude, a state of mind. Target group: first- and second-year students of journalism. Major items: 1. The news article 2. The feature article 3. The interview 4. Editing During the entire course each day starts with a 30-minute discussion of the news of the preceding twenty-four hours.'(more) 'Summerschool Skopje august 30th until September 12th 2002 - a report' During the preparation of the course, I showed hesitation and scepticism about the possible one-sided organization. But at the end, I was not unsatisfied at all. We started with 27 students and we finished with 19 - that's a rather good score and considering the eagerness and the mutual cooperation they showed an even promising score. Four of the students were from the SEE-university in Tetovo - but that's only for the record because differences did not show up. It cost me three days to drive the students that journalism is a deadline business and that they have to start at nine sharp. The fact that there was a memorial day on Monday the 9th and that every politician and civil servant was engaged with the elections, handicapped us a little bit......'(more) 'A report from a Press Now-visit to Macedonia with conclusions and recommendations about a possible improvement of a journalism education' During April 24th till April 28th 2000, I paid in the company of Steven Assies(Press Now) and Phil Davis(The Thomson Foundation) a visit to Macedonia organised by Press Now in order to survey the alleged shortcomings of the media and the supposed lack of journalism training. My assignment was to be engaged in the printing press and to look after the possibilities for a (joined) curriculum and training at the faculty of journalism at the university of Skopje as well as the SEE-university-under-construction in Tetovo......'(more) 'Trainers report- Second part (3-11 June 2000) project, Prizren' The second part of the course was attended by fourteen people - two less than the number by which we finished the first course. Jasminka Berisha changed her job within radio Prizren. Zlatko Velikic, a Serbian student-journalist from Orahovac, left for Belgrad and could not return in time. Thanks to a generous donation from PRESS NOW, a Dutch NGO from and for journalists that supports independent media in southeastern Europe, we (Kees Schaepman and me) were happy to carry fourteen Sony portable MiniDisc recorders to Gjilani and Prizren. The equipment was meant as a gift for the radio-stations and enabled me in the same time to train the students in a highly professional way.s......'(more) 'Trainers report- First part, 2 april-16 April 2000, Prizren' The course was attended by initially eighteen people - to be precise and to avoid the word 'etnic', I hate: eleven Kosovo Albanians, two Kosovo Turks, one from the Kosovo Slavic Muslim Gorash minority in Dragash and four Kosovo Serbs from Orahovac. Because of the growing tension in Orahovac, when in the second week of april houses were burnt and Serbs demonstrated their suspicion against KFOR and the international organisations, two Kosovo Serbian students decided to stay away. So we finished the first part with sixteen students......'(meer) 'Trainingen in Zenica en Tuzla (Bosnië Herzogovina)' Op verzoek van PRESS NOW heb ik van maandag 14 tot en met zaterdag 19 oktober 1996 een journalistentraining gegeven in Zenica en Tuzla. De voorspelling dat in totaal zo'n 25 jonge journalisten de training zouden volgen is niet uitgekomen. In Zenica verschenen negen deelnemers(vijf mannen en vier vrouwen) terwijl er in Tuzla een vaste kern van vier deelnemers(drie vrouwen en een man) aanwezig was. Dat was jammer van al het geld, de energie en de mensen die waren ingezet. Maar de dertien deelnemers die op elke bijeenkomst verschenen waren zo leergierig, gretig en nieuwsgierig dat het zaad dat werd geworpen niet op rotsen is gevallen. Zij zullen de beste propagandisten zijn voor een noodzakelijk vervolg......'(meer)