Multi-ethnic media agency to open in former Macedonian crisis area
The OSCE supports multi-ethnic media as a way of building stability. (Lubomir Kotek/OSCE) Photo details
SKOPJE, 14 May 2002 - The OSCE Spillover Monitor Mission to Skopje welcomes the official opening this week of a multi-ethnic media project in Tetovo, a city of 70,000 people located in a former crisis area in the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia.
The "Media City Desk" is managed by the Association of Local Media in Tetovo, a non-governmental organization set up by a consortium of Albanian and Macedonian TV and Radio stations. It will officially open its doors on Thursday, 16 May, at 13.30.
The desk will produce daily news features in the Tetovo area for all media outlets. The objective is to promote and enable co-operation between journalists serving Macedonian and Albanian languages, to provide quality news, to improve access to information, to widen the news agenda to better serve the public and to improve overall standards of journalism.
Its staff of editors, journalists and technicians come from the main media organizations of the region and work together to produce news stories, free of charge for all local and national media. They are committed to produce well-researched, objective, and balanced news. The project employs five permanent staff, including a Macedonian and an Albanian editor, and eight journalists and technicians.
The project was facilitated by the OSCE Mission's field station in Tetovo and has been supported financially by the International Organization for Migration, the Canadian International Development Agency, and the U.S. organization Mercy Corps.
The "Media City Desk" is managed by the Association of Local Media in Tetovo, a non-governmental organization set up by a consortium of Albanian and Macedonian TV and Radio stations. It will officially open its doors on Thursday, 16 May, at 13.30.
The desk will produce daily news features in the Tetovo area for all media outlets. The objective is to promote and enable co-operation between journalists serving Macedonian and Albanian languages, to provide quality news, to improve access to information, to widen the news agenda to better serve the public and to improve overall standards of journalism.
Its staff of editors, journalists and technicians come from the main media organizations of the region and work together to produce news stories, free of charge for all local and national media. They are committed to produce well-researched, objective, and balanced news. The project employs five permanent staff, including a Macedonian and an Albanian editor, and eight journalists and technicians.
The project was facilitated by the OSCE Mission's field station in Tetovo and has been supported financially by the International Organization for Migration, the Canadian International Development Agency, and the U.S. organization Mercy Corps.