Activity Details (ID# 7576)

Activity Synopsis

This course involved a small group of six trainees brought together for six months of theoretical and practical instruction. The participants came from the main ethnic communities (two ethnic Macedonians, two Albanians, one Turk and one Roma). Kim Mehmeti, AIM’s representative in FYROM for ten years, was appointed Deputy Director of the state MRTV television in 2003. He rapidly realised the enormous need for training among the journalists working there.
MRTV broadcasts programmes in several languages. A multilingual and multiethnic concept requires stronger communication and cooperation between editorial teams. The six participants were all young journalists who have chosen to work in television.
 

The training was both theoretical and practical. Ljubisha Nikolovski, editor of multicultural programmes at MRTV, gave practical training, incorporating the trainees into the editorial team where they made programmes on social, cultural and youth issues. These programmes were made in their mother tongues, but the content was translated so that the other participants could follow and discuss their work. The theoretical training was given by Kim Mehmeti. This involved weekly lectures and group discussions on the contributions produced the previous week by the trainees.
The practical work achieved by the trainees was of sufficient quality for their programmes to be broadcast on MRTV. This helped the trainees to become more widely known within MRTV and among the public at large. The trainees gained a completely new insight into the work of their colleagues in other language services and became more aware of the importance of a multicultural approach. The strong relationship of friendship developed during the course will form the basis for continued inter-ethnic cooperation. AIM plans to organise further courses of this kind in the future.

 

Six trainees, two instructors