Sunday, September 19, 2010

More blogs for Armenia’s National Minorities

8 more blogs dedicated to Armenia’s national minorities were opened during a seminar conducted by Institute for War and Peace Reporting (IWPR) Armenia branch in 17-19 September.

The seminar was dedicated to Citizen Journalism for Representatives of National Minorities, and its participants from Russian, Belarusian, Assyrian, and Yezidi communities have already made several posts on their blogs.

During the 3-day workshop, which included theoretical and practical lessons, participants got acquainted with a number of Web tools for information dissemination, as well as basic principles and ethics that guide journalism, norms of blogging and effective information dissemination through social networks.

All the participants now have their own blogs which are available here: Lusy Mikhaylova, Bella Avdishyan and Nelli Karapetyan from Assyrian community, Oleg Barnashov and Anna Busnigina from Russian community, Kristina Poghosyan and Levon Badalyan from Belarusian community and Aziz Avdalyan from Yezidi community.

This is IWPR’s second workshop on Citizen Journalism for Representatives of Armenia’s National Minorities this year. The first one was completed by opening 4 blogs for Armenia’s national minorities.


Sara Khojoyan

sarakhojoyan@gmail.com

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