OSCE Mission to Skopje organizes class to improve public broadcaster's website

SKOPJE, 21 December 2006 - Helping the public broadcaster Macedonian Radio and Television (MRT) improve its Internet presence was the aim of a three-day OSCE-organized training course in online journalism that ended today.

"One year ago we started almost from nothing and today MRT has a world service in ten languages. The MRT Online has made a great progress in improving its professional level," said Borce Manevski, project manager from the OSCE Spillover Monitor Mission to Skopje, who led the training. "We will keep supporting MRT's online journalism also in the future, because it itself is the future."

Dobre Gjorgiev, Head of the MRT Online Desk, welcomed the OSCE's support, saying: "This training will help us improve the quality of the online content."

The MRT website (www.mrt.com.mk) offers information in Macedonian, Albanian, Turkish, Romane, Vlach, Serbian, Bosnian, English, Bulgarian and Greek.