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Euroreporter to double output in 1999 Fourteen Euroreporter projects are in the running for further development for 1999 after a meeting in Brussels on October 8-10. They will now make a run for the money from EU sponsor DGX. One of the most interesting, and controversial, outlines was put forward by the University of Dortmund. It includes research on newsroom corruption" - a study of how fringe benefits and gifts from companies and representatives may influence journalism negatively. "We will have examples, experienced and found by students, professional journalists and PR experts and press officers", says Ewa Nowak, project coordinator. She also explains that, though it could serve as a good example of modern PR business, there is no connection between this project and the still ongoing Daimler-Benz debate. "That is an internal EJTA discussion, an important one, but I am sure that next year's participants are not interested in internal discussions like this." Also in other projects, things are happening. Readers of The New Euroreporter, for instance, will notice many changes. A proposal concerning far-reaching structural changes for the newspaper was approved during the meeting. According to the new outline, The New Euroreporter will be published four times a year instead of two. Students will work from their home schools to a greater extent in the early stages of the project. A smaller group of experienced students will then convene to finish the paper. Greater emphasis will also be put on working in an electronic environment. Much of the preliminary work will take place over the Internet. Runar Thinning, Euroreporter representative at JMK in Stockholm, says the purpose of the proposal is to take the paper into the future. "The main objective is to ensure its continuity, to be able to plan for more than one year in advance." The plan is also to include more schools in the newspaper project, something that makes the changes in the project structure necessary. "It wouldn't be either financially or practically possible for the host schools to accept a group of, say, 40 students for two weeks," says Runar Thinning. The fourteen projects have been presented to the EJTA member schools on the Internet, with a deadline of Nov. 1. The EJTA board will decide which projects will receive the DGX money in November. Last year nine projects were sponsored. Mattias Källman |
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