Keywords: Hungary, internship, Roma, initiative, discrimination, project, newsroom diversity, training
The Roma Mainstream Media Internship programme tackles widespread misunderstanding and stereotypes of the Roma community in the media by diversifying newsrooms. Young Roma journalists are offered internships within mainstream media organisations. Through this internship programme eight to thirteen students take part annually in 10 months of intensive practical and theoretical training. The accredited journalism course is taken by all students and includes modules in political science, media law and ethics, economic policy, genres and feature writing, to name a few. Students learn radio and television news production, diversity and human rights reporting and participate in more specialised workshops, such as crime and courtroom reporting. Students are then placed in a media organisation for at least 30 hours a week whilst still attending classes and working on their thesis.
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here for an information sheet on the initiative
