Internews Web Sites

Internews is an international nonprofit organization which works for an independent media in emerging democracies. It has active projects in Russia, Ukraine, Central Asia, the Caucasus, Bosnia-Herzegovina, and Palestine. The Internews office in Moscow is a center of information and advice, providing both technical assistance and moral support to about 200 local television stations located in seven newly independent states of the former Soviet Union. Internews supports development of the independent media in the states of the former Soviet Union through training, access to resources, coordination of media events, funding of independent media projects, and other assistance to the media.

In one of its most successful projects, Internews organized a group of TV stations throughout the NIS into a news exchange network which jointly produces stories for a weekly news program. Since February 1993, this half-hour show, called Local Time, has aired every week. News pieces are submitted by station members of the news exchange network. The Russian staff compiles the reports into a 25-minute show and sends it back to the stations for broadcast. Internews estimates that Local Time is seen by about 60 million viewers in Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Armenia, Georgia and Azerbaijan.

More information about Internews projects can be found at: http://www.lh.com/internews/PROJECTS.html

Internews Russia
http://www.internews.ras.ru

The Internews Russian Website opened in late July 1996, but has steadily expanded with stories and links for those involved in Russian media. The Russian Website has a small English language section, but the bulk of its content is in Russian. This site does have a wide focus with information on Moldovan and Tajik media legislation and news on media events in Georgia, Ukraine and Belarus.

The site includes:

• What�s New section
• List of TV stations
• Independent Broadcasting System
• Glasnost Defense Foundation
• Archives of Publication: Legislation and Practical Means for Mass Media
• Links to Informational Resources (Glasnews and Post-Soviet Media Law Center)

Internews Ukraine
http://www.internews.kiev.ua/

The Ukrainian Website opened in mid-July and offers most of its content in English, Russian and Ukrainian although the news sections of the site are in Cyrillic (either Russian or Ukrainian)

The site includes:

• introduction to their work;
• links to other Internews offices in Moscow, Jerusalem, California, Ukrainian International Media Center;
• links to Interfax and UNIAN news agencies
• three media directories: Russia, Ukraine, and The World. These offer links to news agencies, newspapers, magazines, TV, radio and journalist organizations in the respective areas.

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