DUSHANBE, November 5, 2008, Asia-Plus — Internet Magazine and the Advanced Media Training Institute (Translations Online, TOL) offers two-week distant learning online course on journalistic investigation and professional ethics that was developed by TOL in cooperation with BBC World Trust and The Guardian Foundation, Asia-Plus has learned at the Eurasia Foundation of Central Asia (EFCA).
Students from higher educational institutions are invited to take the course free of charge. Those successfully graduating from the training course will be given BBC/TOL/Guardian certificates. “They will also have an opportunity work as stringers for TOL and in the future as resident correspondent for TOL in Central Asia,” said the source at the EFAC. “They will also have an opportunity to participate in international programs and training courses organized by Translations Online.”
According to him, the project is funded by The National Endowment for Democracy (NED), a private, nonprofit organization created in 1983 to strengthen democratic institutions around the world through nongovernmental efforts.
Translations Online provides in-depth news and analysis of political, economic, social and cultural developments in the post-communist countries of Europe and Central Asia. As well as reporting on contemporary issues, the TOL web site has a comprehensive archive of over 10,000 articles, covering some 10 years of post-communist transition.
