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POINT of publication: multi-ethnic Tetovo school paper hits streets
TETOVO 22 January 2003
TETOVO, 22 January 2003 - After a dummy issue in December, "POINT" finally came to the point of publication. The first edition of the first school newspaper edited and produced by a team of Macedonian, Albanian and Turkish youngsters was published on Monday, 20 January.
The 40 or so boys and girls come from all six high schools of the Tetovo region. They work in teams to write the articles, to shoot the photos, to draw the cartoons, to collaborate on graphic design and finally to distribute it.
The eight-page POINT will come out every two weeks with a print run of 10,500, of which 2,500 are in Macedonian and 8,000 in Albanian. A Turkish edition is also planned.
The content of the newspaper focuses on the common interests of young people, articles on from skateboarding to what makes a good teacher. The first edition contains articles such as "Mobilemania: The use of mobiles in the classroom", a survey "What do 100 people in Skopje think when they hear Tetovo?", Valentine's Day Challenge, as well as several interviews with local sport and music stars.
The project is being funded by the Media Development Unit of the OSCE Spillover Monitor Mission to Skopje and by the Confidence Building Initiative of the International Organization for Migration (IOM).
This type of extracurricular project is intended to encourage young people from different ethnic backgrounds to work together creatively and produce something they can call their own. These activities foster future multi-ethnic collaboration in the field of journalism.
The 40 or so boys and girls come from all six high schools of the Tetovo region. They work in teams to write the articles, to shoot the photos, to draw the cartoons, to collaborate on graphic design and finally to distribute it.
The eight-page POINT will come out every two weeks with a print run of 10,500, of which 2,500 are in Macedonian and 8,000 in Albanian. A Turkish edition is also planned.
The content of the newspaper focuses on the common interests of young people, articles on from skateboarding to what makes a good teacher. The first edition contains articles such as "Mobilemania: The use of mobiles in the classroom", a survey "What do 100 people in Skopje think when they hear Tetovo?", Valentine's Day Challenge, as well as several interviews with local sport and music stars.
The project is being funded by the Media Development Unit of the OSCE Spillover Monitor Mission to Skopje and by the Confidence Building Initiative of the International Organization for Migration (IOM).
This type of extracurricular project is intended to encourage young people from different ethnic backgrounds to work together creatively and produce something they can call their own. These activities foster future multi-ethnic collaboration in the field of journalism.