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Youth Storytelling Competition

27/01/201327/05/2022

Students in middle school and high school worldwide can participate in this contest.

The Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, in collaboration with NewsAction.org, is accepting entries for its Digital Storytelling Competition.

Participants should tell a great story, focused on one person, addressing one of the following themes: gender, health or education. Submissions can use any combination of writing, photography, audio or video.

Written work must not exceed 2,000 words; video and audio stories must be no longer than five minutes; and photo essays must contain no more than 10 captioned images.

Three winners will have their reporting featured on the Pulitzer Center website, and each will be allowed to select a charity for a US$200 donation in his or her name.

The deadline is February 22.

For more information, click here.

Source: IJNet

VIP Kids: The Cost of Care for Armenian Children

26/01/201327/05/2022

All parents want their children to be accepted to the best educational institutions and very often plan budget for their higher education before they are born, as fees for high-rated universities can be really expensive. However, before planning the budget for higher education, Armenian parents should deeply explore, analyze the market of children care centers, services provided and the fees charged. It turns out that playing with a toddler is far more expensive that educating a youngster in a prestigious state university.

According to the Ministry of Education and Science of Armenia there are 50 registered non-state and 166 state kindergartens in Yerevan. While in the regions of Armenia state kindergartens suppose some monthly fee, in Yerevan all state kindergartens officially declare free admission and caring about the children.

There are 3 main categories of state preschool institutions which vary basing on the age of the children they accept. So children from 2-3 years old are admitted to mangers ( msur in Armenian), those who are 3-6 years are accepted to regular kindergartens, third type of institution is the combined one – which accepts children of both age categories (children in those kindergartens are separated in different groups according to their age).

Journalism fellowship on immigration open

26/01/201327/05/2022

Journalists interested in covering immigration issues can apply for a fellowship.

The French-American Foundation is accepting applications for the Immigration Journalism Fellowship, which is open to experienced journalists of any nationality.

Fellows will receive US$10,000 to produce groundbreaking pieces on immigration over a four-to six-month period.

Candidates can be from any medium with at least three years’ professional journalism experience. Final works must be published in English or French in the United States or Europe. Freelancers or teams of up to three journalists can also apply.

Applicants must submit a general form, resume, three work samples, two recommendation letters, a project synopsis form with a budget and a letter from the media organization committed to publishing the immigration story.

The deadline for submissions is February 1.

For more information, click here.

Source: IJNet

Sport without Press: Armenian Sports Federations do not Evaluate the Role of Media

23/01/201327/05/2022

The representatives of sports federations of Armenia very often blame the media for non-proper work. Media prefers to cover more popular kinds of sports with high ratings. There are 30 sports federations in Armenia and only one of them regularly uses/sends press releases.

There are also federations, which think that they should not have their contribution to the improvement of sports coverage in media and do not have a press officer.

One of them is the Weightlifting Federation of Armenia. Weightlifting is one of the most popular and popularized type of sports in Armenia. The Ministry of Sport and Youth Affairs of Armenia has increased funding by 40 percent but like past years it is not enough to have press officers. ”We haven’t money but we don’t think that media coverage is a big deal, we are popular and we don’t need it,” says general secretary of Weightlifting Federation of Armenia Pashik Alaverdyan.

Home for Homeless: Yerevan Temporary Shelters Give Chance to Survive

20/01/201327/05/2022

50-year-old Taron humped, with an uncared beard and big eyes hardly seen because of long hair stands in front of subway doors of Shengavit district trying to get warm. He has not a shelter and survives in the streets.

“I am here, because I am not lucky enough to have good children,” says Taron.

The only thing Taron said about his appearing in the streets is that no one from his relatives have had time or place to help him. He said nothing else about his family.

“I need some warm place for winter, but policemen never let me stay here”.

He always wears a long coat and a hat. This helps him especially in winter. Taron is seen in the subway station only in the mornings. Then, according to witnesses, he runs away from the police. Gohar Ghazaryan, who works in the market near this subway station, says that Taron comes back when police is not near.

“He always has 2 bags with him: one for food, the other for clothes. He also begs for money or finds something in the bins,” says Gohar.

But the streets are not the only place Taron has been recently. He has been in a homeless shelter for a month and then left it. Why, he didn’t say.

Frozen Issue of Figure Skating: To Be or Not Be in Winter Olympic Games 2014 in Sochi

20/01/201327/05/2022

Figure Skating fails to develop in Armenia. The only figure skating school in Shengavit district in Yerevan is in awful condition- no ice rink, only a few halls for gymnastics. The children studying there have to train in the open air skating rink of Karapi Lich (Swan lake) near the Opera House and sometimes in sport and concert complex after Karen Demirchyan.

The skating rink of Karapi Lich is open from 14 December to 28 February. If you come with your own skates you have to pay 500 drams per hour but if you rent skates it costs 1000 drams an hour. “The children studying at figure skating school in Shengavit district train here for free. There are specific hours for them to come to train with their coaches: from 9am to 11am and from 4pm to 5 pm,” said Sargis Bejanyan, the head of service of skating rink of Karapi Lich.”

Sargis told that the skating rink belongs to City Hall of Yerevan that cares for the comfort and safety of figure skaters. They have technical break every day from 5 to 6pm during which they restore the ice with special machines and make it ready for the skaters. They also have first-aid posts near the rink in case there are some injuries, breaks or fractures.

9th annual South Caucasus Media Conference in Tbilisi Launched

11/10/201227/05/2022

Journalists and civil society representatives from Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia taking part in the 9th annual South Caucasus Media Conference in Tbilisi titled “From traditional to online media: best practices and perspectives” will look at international standards and national practices regarding freedom of the media in social media and online broadcast regulation.

“Online and traditional media alike must remain free forums for public debate,” said the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media Dunja Mijatović opening the conference today.

“The fundamental human right to freedom of expression and freedom of the media is not only reserved for traditional media, but also covers social media and other forms of new media,” Mijatović said.

“I constantly urge the governments of all OSCE participating States to foster and not to restrict media freedom both on-line and off-line. Online media can promote diversity and pluralism of opinions and voices. They also support democratic processes and development by providing a direct link between governments and citizens.”

The conference participants will also discuss current issues relating to media freedom in the region.

Final Report 2012. Monitoring of Armenian Online Media Coverage of May 6, 2012 Elections to RA National Assembly

29/06/201227/05/2022

Final Report on Monitoring of Armenian Online Media Coverage of May 6, 2012 Elections to RA National Assembly conducted by the Journalists for the Future NGO is possible to download HERE.

This monitoring is conducted by the Journalists for the Future NGO (JFF) with the financial support of the Open Society Foundations-Armenia (OSF-Armenia).

The aim of the research is to study Armenian online media coverage concerning parliamentary elections during the 3 months of pre-election period and 2 weeks after the elections, i.e. February 6 – May 20, 2012 (105 days).

There has been no research of online media conducted in Armenia during electoral processes. The need of such monitoring has risen during the recent 3-4 years with the increase of Internet users and the decrease of prices. The number of news-making websites increased too.

Monitoring of Armenian Online Media Coverage: Pre-Election and Post-Election Periods, Silence Day, Elections Day (08 April - 20 May, 2012)

15/06/201227/05/2022

Report on Monitoring of Armenian Online Media Coverage of May 6, 2012 Elections to RA National Assembly conducted by the Journalists for the Future NGO is possible to download HERE.

Introduction

This monitoring is conducted by the Journalists for the Future NGO (JFF) with the financial support of the Open Society Foundations-Armenia (OSF-Armenia).

There has been no research of online media conducted in Armenia during election processes. The need of such monitoring has risen during the recent 3-4 years with the increase of Internet users and the decrease of prices. The number of news-making websites increased too.

In 2007, during the Parliamentary elections there were less than 10 Armenian active online media outlets. Today, there are 224 websites registered only in the “News and Media” section of Circle.am rating system. The leading 50 websites have 1.000-150.000 visitors per day (Azatutyun.am and PanArmenian.Net news websites are not registered in this system).

RA Parliamentary Elections 2012: Interim Report on Monitoring of Armenian Online Media Coverage (08 April - 04 May, 2012)

31/05/201227/05/2022

Interim Report on Monitoring of Armenian Online Media Coverage of May 6, 2012 Elections to RA National Assembly conducted by the Journalists for the Future NGO is possible to download HERE.

Introduction

This monitoring is conducted by the Journalists for the Future NGO (JFF) with the financial support of the Open Society Foundations-Armenia (OSF-Armenia).

There has been no research of online media conducted in Armenia during election processes. The need of such monitoring has risen during the recent 3-4 years with the increase of Internet users (30% of population) and the decrease of prices. The number of news-making websites increased too.

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