JEMSTONE Newsletter 6

Med Media has been relaunched -- on 22nd April, two years and four months after it was suspended. Training projects selected in autumn 1995 are now eligible for funding and the indications are that Jemstone will receive an additional two-year contract. Co-productions and other initiatives will be supported through a new Euromed Audiovisual programme. The time-scale is still not clear.

THE NEXT JEMSTONE EVENTS -- APPLY NOW**

** Media Correspondents -- the fastest growing specialism in Europe is coverage of the media itself: new technology, ownership and control. This latest Jemstone specialist reporting workshop will be in Beirut from 12th to 17th June. It is for experienced journalists interested in developing coverage of media issues.

** The annual Jemstone summer journalism course in Holland -- this should be viewed as a short scholarship, for the best and the brightest young journalists in the region. The ideal candidates are around 30 years old with three to five years experience. There are 30 places, ten each for press, radio and TV. Half the participants will be women. It is high-level and intensive, centred around the production and analysis of "for-real" papers and programmes. There are practical exercises, workshop sessions, local visits, social activities and individual assignments. It will run from 22nd July to 15th August -- already we have many applications.

** Foreign editors and correspondents -- we hope to run a workshop on coverage of Euro-Med issues, in Palermo at the beginning of June, to coincide with the foreign ministers' meeting. It's not certain yet, but register your interest NOW. Also in June and July -- we have a TV set-design workshop with Nile TV in Cairo and a Training Skills workshop following up the training-managers' course.

In September, there will be a Heads of Network Partners short meeting, probably in Marrakech (just before the big World Bank meeting) -- by personal invitation.

Later in the autumn -- we expect to run a workshop for political cartoonists, jointly with Search for Common Ground; there will be a second Internet for Journalists workshop; and possibly a conference on key media issues with the Institute of Diplomacy in Amman and the Sean MacBride Round Table.

We've postponed the specialist workshops for both education correspondents and news photographers until the autumn and possibly till the next contract.

No more faxed Newsletters -- it's costing us over $1,000 a month. So to carry on receiving this Newsletter you must send us an e-mail address NOW (if you don't have your own then use a friend's) -- send to lara@jemstone.net

Jemstone phone/fax numbers will change soon probably with a 5 in front.

tl/26/4/98