Project Consortium

BBC World Service Trust

The Trust’s experience of managing journalism training projects is unique in the development community. Over the past six years, it has been involved in establishing and running sustainable training centres in Russia, Ukraine, Bosnia and Serbia. The Trust has also run long-term training initiatives in Somalia, Rwanda and Afghanistan. These projects have been aimed at rebuilding media industries shattered by armed conflict and focused on basic skills training as well as consultation on media regulation and best practice. The Trust was recently awarded £6 million by the Department for International Development to establish a broadcasting network across southern Iraq.

Dublin City University

Dublin City University was initially set up to fulfil the national requirement for a highly-trained workforce with skills in the areas of business, science and electronics, computer technology, communications and languages and as an agent for change in its local community. The first students came through the door in 1980 and the university is now recognised nationally and internationally as a centre of academic excellence. DCU’s School of Communications has experience in providing short courses in media, information and Internet skills for organisations and individuals within the community and voluntary sector. Members of the School are advisers to community development projects and have published widely on social uses of information and communications technologies.

The Danish School of Journalism

The DSJ has worked on projects to support the development of a professional and independent media, and journalism education and mid-career training in Africa, Central and Eastern Europe, South-East Europe, Asia and Russia. The school has successfully delivered distance learning in South-East Europe through the Media Training Network and has worked to train trainers across the region. Other relevant experience includes a project to modernise the journalism teaching curriculum at the University of Zambia, in Lusaka, and a multi-step Training of Trainers programme in Mongolia.

IIMC has been training broadcast and print journalists for nearly 40 years. It currently offers four one-year post-graduate diploma courses for students of journalism, advertising and public relations as well as two four-month diploma courses in development journalism for trainees from other developing countries. Last year, the institute ran a total of 35 shorter workshops attended by around 800 media practitioners. Beyond its Delhi base, the centre has branches open or nearing completion in Dhenkanal, Kottayam, Dimapur and Jhabua.

The Indian Institute for Journalism and New Media

The IIJNM was founded by the BS&G Foundation, a non-profit Trust dedicated to promoting democratic values and institutions in India. Based in Bangalore, its curriculum has been developed in association with Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, New York. The curriculum includes core courses in reporting and writing, ethical and legal issues, and tools of journalism. Students can specialise in such areas as political reporting, international news coverage, business, arts, sports and other electives. It has the capacity to cater for 50 students during the academic year and offers state-of-the-art computer facilities with high-speed Internet access.