Reporting Diversity

A Guide to Reporting Diversity

Roumen Yanovski (aut.)

ACCESS-Sofia Foundation, Sofia, 2002

ISBN 954-600-017-5

(Language: English)

The Guide is an example of a successful effort to achieve mutual understanding. It builds on the expertise of a unique forum of the 18 independent media organizations which are members of the South-East European Network for Professionalization of the Media (SEENPM) from Albania, Bulgaria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, FR Yugoslavia (Serbia and Montenegro), Hungary, Macedonia, Moldova, Romania and Slovenia.

The Guide is an attempt to help change unfortunate attitudes, habits and manners of thinking in the professional journalistic community. It tries to encourage a debate, since debate seems to be the most useful part of reporting diversity training. Debate may mean challenge, provocation or experience-sharing; it might not result in understanding, nevertheless it presents more points of view, and thus generates greater comprehension, or at least provokes thought. Even if considered unsuccessful, this attempt provides written material – a point of reference, something to criticize or to argue about – which will ultimately help journalists, intellectuals and activists make their own decisions.

In short, this guide proves to be a challenge, on the one hand, for the author and the SEENPM, and on the other, for its addressees.