Academy of Citizen Journalism
The project plans to
Address the negative effects of intensified anti-democratic, anti-humanistic and anti-western propaganda in the context of low level of journalist literacy among citizen journalists (bloggers, vloggers, podcasters and social media commentators). Moreover we plan to increase the grassroots activism by mobilizing youth to engage in monitoring the public processes by doing citizen journalist activity.
During this project we will run 3 separate complete course sessions for 90 youth citizen journalists made out of three components:
-
Theoretical literacy - that will include: knowledge about propaganda/disinformation, journalist ethics, and operation with data, elaborating the blogs/vlogs and other online media platforms and promotion.
-
Practical exercise – couched practical exercises run by professional citizen journalists specialized in blogging/vlogging/podcasting and social media.
-
Applied work – the participants will develop their own media platform during the project that will be launched and presented at the end of the educational program.
-
Employment - the project also envisions a strong employment component that will help them be professionally more engaged and financially more autonomous.
Visit ACJ website
Citizen Journalism Academy Round I
Objectives:
-
Increase the level of awareness among citizen journalists (beginner bloggers, vloggers and social media commentators) about the negative impact of anti-western, anti-democratic propaganda spread by Russian, pro-Russian and alike media outlets.
-
Increase the level of social responsibility and professional ethics shared among citizen journalists.
-
Increase the level of media literacy among citizen journalists:
-
Learn how to work with multiple sources of information, source filtering, conduct fact checking, and provide unbiased presentation of information.
-
Improve writing skills, needed to become a good social media or blogging sphere journalist.
-
Learn how to use modern web instruments necessary for performing professional journalistic activity and conducting basic research.
-
-
Empower a generation of citizen journalists to start or professionally develop their media products.
-
Increase sustainability of journalistic profession outside of traditional media sphere by:
-
Learning technics how to make the blogs or other media products sustainable
-
Creating possibilities for partial employment in the field
-
-
Run three separate rounds of training course for citizen journalists (beginner bloggers/vloggers/podcasters).
-
Follow-up activity. Assist all training graduates in opening or improving the existing media products/platforms (blog, online journal, poster, podacast, art, photo or other type of broadcasting means) to start or upgrade their own citizen journalism activity.
-
Help/find employment opportunities in the domain of media for citizen journalists graduating this course (for those interested).