People who practice the same profession – Journalists speak about inter-ethnic cooperation between media workers
The profession should be the main language of journalists – said one of the participants in our Storytelling Evening, journalist Elfije Boletini. At the event, journalists from the Serbian and Albanian communities in Kosovo discussed inter-ethnic cooperation of media workers and obstacles they face in their work. They also stressed the importance of joint reporting by journalists from different communities for conveying a story that is as close to reality as possible and having diversified acquaintances with whom one can exchange contacts. In addition to Eljfije, the Alternativna team also interviewed Milica Radovanović, Milica Andrić Rakić and Donjeta Zahti. See what these journalists and journalism students had to say about this topic…
Storytelling Evening was organized in late June when a group of ten people form North and South Mitrovica and Pristina gathered in the early evening hours on our rooftop in North Mitrovica, ready to exchange their stories and experiences with interethnic cooperation between media workers.
The storytelling evening was organized not just to bring together young professionals, but also to introduce the Reconciliation and Conflict Transformation program to the local media.
This was one of many activities of the five-year-long Reconciliation and Conflict Transformation program that News Social Initiative is implementing in partnership with Community Building Mitrovica and Youth Initiative for Human Rights – Kosovo.
It is supported by the American people trough USAID in Kosovo.
