Transitions Online Stringer Network

Transitions Online(www.transitions-online.org), the Internet version of Transitions magazine, which stopped printing in March, has been running for about a year and receives over 300,000 hits a month. Transitions Online is being expanded into the most prominent and extensive online source of information on the Balkans, Central and Eastern Europe, and the former Soviet Union.

Readers of Transitions depended on the magazine for balanced coverage of issues, offering crucial local perspective on issues that were often under-reported by Western publications. Transitions Online promises to be the most prestigious and most frequently visited site on the region.

Reliable, motivated journalists are crucial to our project's success. To keep our coverage up-to-date and relevant, we are seeking responsible journalists from the region who are seeking international exposure and a challenging part-time position. The duties of the stringers -- one in each of the 27 countries -- will be:

* to work closely with editors regarding the events in their home country, suggesting story and feature ideas
* to contribute news bites for our weekly news service
* to monitor media in their region
* to occasionally write full-length stories and to suggest and contact local journalists to whom such articles could be commissioned
* to contact local photographers and artists to provide visual accompaniment to stories

The journalists will remain in their country of origin but will be in touch with Transitions Online editors via telephone and email. We are looking for dynamic, experienced and motivated journalists who can provide interesting local angles on wider regional trends with a thorough knowledge of their home country. The candidate must have excellent English skills and sound news judgment, and should be easily contactable -- preferably by e-mail -- on a daily basis. Salary and weekly commitments will be discussed at a later date.

If you are interested in becoming a Transitions Online stringer, please send a resume to [email protected] and a brief letter telling us how you think you could benefit Transitions Online; plus a story idea from an issue affecting your region, which you feel has been under-reported in the international press.

Jeremy Druker
Staff Writer/Syndicate Coordinator
Transitions magazine
Seifertova 47, 130 00 Praha 3
Czech Republic
Tel: 420 2 627-9445, 627-9472, 627-9473
Fax: 420 2 627-9444
Web: www.ijt.cz/transitions/

Last updated:    June 1999

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