TIRANA, July 4 – As it seeks to bring more minorities into mainstream media positions, The Albanian Media Institute, with the support of Swedish Helsinki Committee, recently began offering internships for minority media reporters.
In June, two reporters from Greek minority media worked for two weeks as interns in two daily newspapers, Albania and Korrieri. The interns worked as reporters on a daily basis, producing articles that covered aspects of minority life in the country.
These internships will continue and will involve journalists from all minority media in the country.
Research organized by AMI concluded that the main problems of minority representation in newspaper management, sales, advertising, and marketing are of concern. Minority media ranked training and assistance on using new technologies, Internet, etc, as a basic need.
That is why the AMI started a series of in-house training sessions for minority media, with the first course held on June 14, lasting four days, and consisted in helping persons who take care of Vlach publications to improve their professional skills, such as helping them solve problems or gaps in the use of computers, printers, connecting to the Internet, installing more updated software and also expanding their knowledge of new software.
