The National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) European Conference invites interested radio broadcasters, podcasters and post-production professionals to attend its educational and training sessions from October 26 to 29 in London.

Conference sessions will help media professionals maximize their management, creative and business skills. Participants will listen to well-known media experts on several topics related to their field.

Three conferences will be held this year at the NAB meeting: the European Radio Conference, European Podcasting Conference and European Post-Production Conference.

For more information, visit http://www.nabeurope.org/hotel-location.asp.

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The International Center for Journalists (ICFJ) will offer a six-week online course that seeks to bring together U.S. and international journalists to critically examine religion coverage around the world.

Funded by a grant from the Carnegie Corporation of New York, the course will run from March 6 to April 17, 2009. During the course, participants will:

explore religion coverage around the world, sharing a wide range of international resources and professional approaches.
examine the ways religious context is essential in reporting on issues from regional and ethnic conflict to medical ethics.
examine case studies of reporting on religious conflict in the Sudan, the Balkans and Iraq.
share critical insights, resources and strategies with one another on the experience of covering religion around the world.
Award-winning journalist David Briggs will lead the course, which will be conducted in English and is open to 30 participants. The deadline for applications is January 30, 2009.

Please follow the instructions below to submit your application:

1. Visit https://e-learn.icfj.org.

2. Click on the application link.

3. Login using your e-learn account. If you don’t have an account, click «Create new account» to register. After you register, you will need to check your email to confirm your account.

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Journalists in Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Province received awards for best media works in covering the issues of gender equality.

Nabot Dodkhudoeva, leader of the public organization “Madina” told the Pamir Media news agency that the contest was organized within the framework of a program “Gender & Development”.

Original thematic TV, radio programs and publications in printing outlets were presented by journalists in GBAO. The first prize went to Faiz Mirasanov, editor of the province television for his TV program “Divorce and consequent problems”. Safarmo Butabekova, senior correspondent of Radio Badakhshan received the second award.

Organizers are intending to launch the second round of the contest half a year later. The main goal of the contest is to attract attention of the public to the issues of gender equality.

Pamir Media

Managers of the Center of Standardization, Metrology and Certification in Sughd province is going to file a charge against the Sughd weekly for poorly grounded criticism.

The reason for such a complaint was an article published in a private weekly newspaper Sughd (#29, 19 July 2008) describing activities of the Sughd province Customs service. Administration of the Center of Standardization, Metrology and Certification considers that the author of the publication groundlessly criticized the Center’s personnel referring to a material disseminated at a press conference held by the Center.

NANSMIT Monitoring Service

The International Center for Journalists (ICFJ) in Washington, D.C. invites print and TV journalists from the United States or from majority Muslim countries to propose reporting projects on issues of importance to audiences in both places. Deadline for applications: September 1.

Applicants whose projects are selected will be paired with a reporting partner from another country and will receive funding through ICFJ.

Each of the four pairs of journalists selected will attend the “Faith in Media: Improving Coverage of Islam and Other Religions” conference, to be held December 14 to 16 in Istanbul, Turkey. Projects will be discussed and refined at the conference.

Pairs will have several months to conduct reporting together and will be encouraged to collaborate on the writing of the stories, but they are not required to publish or broadcast identical stories. The conference and the reporting projects are sponsored by Carnegie Corporation of New York.

Reporting projects that explore issues in Islam and other religions are encouraged, but other topics will also be considered. Ability to work in English is required. All expenses for the conference and the joint reporting projects will be covered, but ICFJ cannot pay participants’ salaries.

For more information and to apply, go to www.icfj.org/istanbul or please write to istanbul@icfj.org.

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On 1 August, the Ismoili Somoni district court in Dushanbe continued the litigation on the case of Jaloliddin Sadriddinov, police officer and former press secretary of the Tajik Interior Ministry.

Jamoliddin Sadriddinov was dismissed from the police in May 2008. The ground for his dismissal was a verdict of the Interior Ministry’s staff security department saying that “the police officer committed actions defaming his professional status”. Sadriddinov denies this accusation and says that his dismissal resulted from machinations and intrigues plotted by his former colleagues.

The court hearings will continue.

NANSMIT Monitoring Service

Mainstream and citizen journalists from around the world are invited to apply for the Every Human has Rights Media Awards. The deadline to apply is September 15.

The awards, which will be given by Internews, are in celebration of the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR). Applicants are asked to send “creative and eye-opening works” that help illustrate one or more of the Declaration’s articles.

The award seeks to encourage greater press freedom and support human rights reporting worldwide.

To learn more visit: http://media-awards.everyhumanhasrights.org/

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Experienced journalists are invited to apply for Media21 Global Journalism Network’s global issues media workshop, which will focus on the challenges of migration in the 21st century from November 24 to December 7. Deadline to apply: October 15.

The first part of the workshop will be held in Geneva, Switzerland for three days where expert panels will discuss the aspects of migration, refugees and trafficking affecting countries from Europe to Afghanistan.

The next part will be held in Andorra as part of the 3rd Future of Europe Summit. Journalists will be exposed to international businesses, academia, non-governmental organizations and policy representatives.

Chosen applicants also will receive the opportunity to participate in a week-long field trip to certain parts of Africa or Europe.

The cost for traveling, food and lodging, field trip and tuition is EU?5,400(US$8,465). Limited grants are available.

For more information, contact Daniel Wermus at dwermus@infosud.org or visit http://www.media21geneva.org.

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The Washington, D.C.-based National Endowment for Democracy (NED) invites journalists worldwide to apply to be part of the 2009-2010 Reagan-Fascell Democracy Fellows Program.

Selected fellows will take up residence at the Forum, a research division of NED, for five to ten months. Deadline: November 10.

According to its organizers, the fellowship seeks to provide experienced journalists with an opportunity to reflect on their work, learn from counterparts in the United States, and reevaluate techniques for building democracy in their country of origin. Projects must be in English.

Each participant will receive a monthly stipend for living expenses, health insurance and reimbursement for travel. Fellows also receive a fully equipped office and research support.

For further information, including eligibility information, visit http://www.ned.org/forum/reagan-fascell.html or contact fellowships@ned.org.

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Tajik web users cannot get access to the foreign web site

The OSCE media resource center in Dushanbe approached a local Internet providing company Compuworld asking to explain why access to the web site Fergana.ru is denied. The Compuworld managers said that the web site is blocked according to instructions issued almost two years ago by the Tajik Ministry of Communication, namely by its entity – the Communication Regulation Agency.

It should be noted that the official letter from the Agency was issued in October 2006. It contained the order addressed to all Tajik Internet providers to block access to the following web resources: www. «сharogiruz.ru», www. «arianstorm.com», www. «tajikistantimes.ru», www. «centrasia.ru» and www.«fergana.ru». The letter contained explanations that “the ideological contents of these web sites are targeted against the policies of the State in the information environment, and serve as propaganda and instigation of social, racial and religious conflicts”.

This order remained in force only one week, and was abolished by the authorities shortly after the release. However, Compuworld has blocked Fergana.ru again, referring to the same letter from the Communication Ministry.

Jamshed Mamajanov, who works for the OSCE media resource center says that access to the web site had been blocked shortly after he received an official accreditation as a correspondent of Fergana.ru in Tajikistan.

NANSMIT monitoring service