At one of the meetings of the Youth Year Organizing Committee I suggested organizing workshops on journalistic ethics for young journalists. This wasn’t something that I just plucked out of thin air: the idea actually came to me when I saw the state the media are in these days and read some statistics showing that people in our country have less and less trust in journalists. This trend can only be a cause for concern, because I believe that the journalistic profession is one of the most important in a democratic country, especially one in the process of building a civil society.

The Committee supported my initiative, and the first Young Journalists’ School workshop begins tomorrow. It will be held in Moscow from 13th to 15th November. The workshops will be attended by 100 people from more than 40 regions who won their places through competitive selection. The School plans to run two 2 -day workshops by the end of 2009, the second to be held in December in St.Petersburg.

Once the workshops are over I will definitely let you known how it all went and try to download some photographs.