Keywords: Roma, radio training, initiative, discrimination, project, community radio
The Qualifying Roma for Professional Radio Journalism initiative was started to give young Roma journalists the skills to work in radio production and therefore be able to run a Roma Community Radio themselves. With skilled Roma journalists producing programmes, it would become very difficult for public authorities to ignore the request for a Roma community radio station. As part of the Roma Communication Capacity building programme the Peace Institute of Slovenia organised two intensive radio journalism workshops for Roma teenagers and young adults. Roma trainees with little or no journalism experience were taught how to produce and deliver a radio programme. Training involved regular feedback and daily meetings between the project manager and the trainer that took into account all the trainees’ feedback.
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here for an information sheet on the initiative
