Participants of the XII CIS Interstate Council on Cooperation in the Sphere of Book Publishing Industry adopted a draft agreement on the creation of a CIS joint printing body.
The meeting was held on 1 and 2 April in Dushanbe under the chairmanship of Azerbaijan.
Participants of the meeting also adopted a work plan for the Council for 2009. The next meeting of the Council will be held in November-December 2009 in Minsk, Belarus. It will be chaired by Tajikistan.
The meeting in Dushanbe was attended by representatives from Azerbaijan, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyz Republic, Russia and the Council’s Executive Committee.

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U.S. Embassy Dushanbe is soliciting statements of interest from newspapers published in Tajikistan to host a resident trainer to help improve the professional reporting skills and increase circulation.

The Embassy will fund an American print media trainer who will spend a total of 3 months (over a 6 month period) with one print outlet with the purpose to improve reporting standards, news room operations, and business management of the newspaper through marketing and advertising. The program is a great professional training opportunity for the newspaper staff to get hands on practice on writing better news reports, investigative pieces and articles based on the internationally used reporting norms. The expert is expected to work closely on daily basis with reporters of the newspaper, editors and business managers. The training is offered in English with Tajik and/or Russian interpretation, as needed. Strong commitment from the newspaper’s management to the program is required.

Eligibility criteria:

· Management commitment to core values of fair and accurate journalism;

· Willingness to consider new approaches and to change;

· A minimum of five staff members;

· Established advertising department or a staff member dedicated to advertising issues;

· Readiness to accommodate the international trainer in the office of the newspaper;

· Preference given to a newspaper with a Web site or a plan to launch one.

Application requirements:

· Letter stating what the newspaper wants to improve and why (1 page maximum);

· Organizational structure and lines of authority;

· Resumes of editor in chief, editor, and/or deputy editor.

The complete applications should be submitted either in Russian, Tajik or English by April 8, 2009.

Electronic or paper applications should be submitted to the following address:

U.S. Embassy Dushanbe, Public Affairs Section

109 A Ismoili Somoni Avenue

Dushanbe, Tajikistan

Attention: Jackie McKennan, Public Affairs Officer

Emails: McKennanJK@state.gov, AlievaNS@state.gov

For questions please contact Jackie McKennan at 229-2351 or Nigina Alieva at 229-2318 and 90700 5001.

U.S. Embassy in Tajikistan

On 30 March the Tajik NGO Khoma launched a training session for a group of future trainers on TV journalism. The ToT session is supported by Internews Network and the Open Society Institute.

The initial course is designed for five days. Participants will study methodologies of work in the multimedia sphere, techniques of news writing for TV stations, writing of text for videos, etc.
Organizers invited Oleg Dmitriev, professor of the Moscow State Linguistic University to facilitate the first training session.

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