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ARMENIA: REPORTING ON WOMEN AND YOUNG PEOPLE
Institute for War and Peace Reporting IWPR
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Caucasus Reporting Service - Issue 647
June 26 2012
UK
Mentoring helps journalists produce relevant content for radio.
Three Armenian reporters are producing radio reports on issues facing
women and young people as part of an IWPR project aimed at promoting
professional, ethical journalism.
Marina Galoyan and Liana Margaryan from the capital Yerevan, and
Hripsime Hakobyan from the city of Gyumri, are being mentored by
Harutyun Mansuryan, a production manager with the international media
development organisation Internews.
This IWPR initiative was launched in March, and the FM station
Radio Van started broadcasting reports by the three journalists the
following month.
One of them was a piece by Margaryan about Yerevan's Galik University
losing its accreditation, making it harder for its graduates to find
jobs, and a report by Galoyan about young drug addicts.
The reporters are now working on stories about unemployment among
women in Gyumri, domestic violence in Yerevan, and libraries that
refuse to lend books to students from outside the capital.
"I think it's very important to promote media coverage of youth
issues," Margaryan said. "The project gave me the chance to articulate
problems facing young people.... My radio report was an important
step in building their confidence and giving them faith in their
own potential."
Hakobyan said she hoped her reporting would encourage women in Gyumri
to speak out about issues like domestic violence or husbands who
prevent their wives working.
"There are a lot of problems in Gyumri. Women and young people will
never talk about these issues on television," she said. "Under these
circumstances, radio coverage of women's issues is essential."
Hakobyan said the training she was getting was useful because it
was practical.
"Working with a radio expert has helped me acquire and develop new
skills," she said. "It's been more useful to learn by preparing radio
reports than by just listening to theory."
The mentoring programme is part of a project called Caucasus
Intersection - Regional Radio Journalists' Networks, supported by
the Norwegian foreign ministry.
Institute for War and Peace Reporting IWPR
http://iwpr.net/report-news/armenia-reporting-women-and-young-people
Caucasus Reporting Service - Issue 647
June 26 2012
UK
Mentoring helps journalists produce relevant content for radio.
Three Armenian reporters are producing radio reports on issues facing
women and young people as part of an IWPR project aimed at promoting
professional, ethical journalism.
Marina Galoyan and Liana Margaryan from the capital Yerevan, and
Hripsime Hakobyan from the city of Gyumri, are being mentored by
Harutyun Mansuryan, a production manager with the international media
development organisation Internews.
This IWPR initiative was launched in March, and the FM station
Radio Van started broadcasting reports by the three journalists the
following month.
One of them was a piece by Margaryan about Yerevan's Galik University
losing its accreditation, making it harder for its graduates to find
jobs, and a report by Galoyan about young drug addicts.
The reporters are now working on stories about unemployment among
women in Gyumri, domestic violence in Yerevan, and libraries that
refuse to lend books to students from outside the capital.
"I think it's very important to promote media coverage of youth
issues," Margaryan said. "The project gave me the chance to articulate
problems facing young people.... My radio report was an important
step in building their confidence and giving them faith in their
own potential."
Hakobyan said she hoped her reporting would encourage women in Gyumri
to speak out about issues like domestic violence or husbands who
prevent their wives working.
"There are a lot of problems in Gyumri. Women and young people will
never talk about these issues on television," she said. "Under these
circumstances, radio coverage of women's issues is essential."
Hakobyan said the training she was getting was useful because it
was practical.
"Working with a radio expert has helped me acquire and develop new
skills," she said. "It's been more useful to learn by preparing radio
reports than by just listening to theory."
The mentoring programme is part of a project called Caucasus
Intersection - Regional Radio Journalists' Networks, supported by
the Norwegian foreign ministry.