JEMSTONE Newsletter 4 Jemstone is now fully operational for 1998 -- our plans are set out below. The Vice-President of the European Commission, Manuel Marin, in a recent letter, explained that Jemstone had been given exceptional funding by the Commission due to its "political importance as Europe's biggest media venture in the Middle East". New structures: the main contact point for Jemstone (English and Arabic) is now the head office -- phone 00 962 6-859980, fax-819552, e-mail: info@jemstone.net. Besides Nidal Dalgamouni as our Regional Adviser (nidal@jemstone.net), we have Brenda de Jager in Holland as Logistics Co-ordinator (brenda@jemstone.net), Geoff Morley in London as Training Co-ordinator (geoff@jemstone.net) and Hania Oweis in Amman as executive assistant to the director (hania@jemstone.net). Lara Vahe Demirjian (lara@jemstone.net) is still Networking Co-ordinator, responsible for the web-site, our e-mail network, and Newsletter distribution and Khaled Shorman (khaled@jemstone.net) is developing a regional network of training managers. We have local Jemstone co-ordinators in Gaza, Yemen and the Gulf, as well as all the countries of the region (with e-mail addresses, eg syria@jemstone.net). For those without access to e-mail, please fax or phone your messages via the head office. New procedures: from now on applications for Jemstone events need to be received here six weeks before the event begins. We will no longer automatically pay 50% of travel costs, only in cases of hardship -- though we will continue to cover all accommodation, training, local travel and other costs. New programme: Jan 31-Feb 3 Internet for journalists Amman Feb 14-20 Specialist economic reporters Amman/Aqaba Feb 24-27 Arabic writers Damascus March 3-9 Specialist environment reporters South Sinai March 16-21 Audience/readership research Cyprus April Training managers Hilversum May Specialist education reporters Turkey June Masterclass for news photographers maybe Gaza June Training Skills Cairo July Specialist media reporters Beirut August Journalism skills London/Hilversum Sept Senior Managers Brussels Oct Round Table Conference Amman/Cairo *Requested events for which no date has yet been set: Parliamentary/political specialist reporters Amman/London/?? TV set-design/graphics Cairo Specialist reporters' workshop for journalists covering NGOs tl/18/1/98
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