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Peace Dialogue NGO to Train Young Civic Journalists Thanks to CFLI Funding.
Peace Dialogue recently received a 24,000 Canadian dollar grant from the Canada Fund for Local Initiatives (CFLI) to run a series of media trainings for next-generation, civic journalists in the three northern regions of Armenia: Shirak, Lori and Tavush. The project starts in September, 2019 and will support 21 aspiring, young journalists (7 from each region) with trainings at workshops in Gyumri and Dilijan led by local and international journalists and media experts.
The Gyumri workshop, to be held in early October 2019, will focus on journalism’s role in strengthening democracy and teaching the basics of written journalism and news reporting. The second workshop, that will take place in Dilijan in December this year, will train program participants to do photo- and video-news reporting. All 21 participants will have five months to develop news stories and photo-/video-reports on important issues impacting their local communities. The best stories will then be posted on the Peace Dialogue project website and also published in cooperation with regional and local media outlets.
The project “Training Next-Generation Civic Journalists in Northern Armenia as Future Democracy Watchdogs” is supported by the Canada Fund for Local Initiatives.
