«Come on!» -media school for NGO
Jul 2, 2010
In June Petrozavods for the 4-th time bacame the place to hold a media school for youth NGO members. 25 of them participated in it within the Russian-Finnish project «NGO and Media».
During two-day discussions NGO members spoke about co-operation and co-existence, they expressed great wish to be experts in many items. But they couldn't hear the position of Karelian journalists as none of those invited came to meet them.
Lecturer Matti Siipiǟinen, correspondent from newspaper «Karjalainen» informed about relations between NGO and media in Europe and compared the work of mass media with NGO in Finland, Russia and South America. Tiina Junnila spoke about information and PR actions of the East department of Finland-Russia Friendship Society. She also presents a small exhibition of magazines, booklets and advertisement items such as umbrellas with Russian ABC and T-shirts with the sign «Come on!». The conversation went on with participation of young people from Joensuu who organize music festivals, concerts and tiurs to Russia. Newspapers in Finland guarantees free space for advertising and covering their activities.
NGO members from Karelia presented themselves, too. Then there was a discussion about the role of pictures, well-built texts and souvenir products for NGO to attract people's attention to different problems.
Among program items there was a visit to TV station «Sampo» and a performance in the National theatre in Finnish. The participants of the media school also met member of Karelian Social chamber Anna Lopatkina and correspondent of «Molodyozhnaya Gaseta» Olga Harlamova.
Elena Rybalova
Translated by: Tatiana Polkova
