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| Dr. Tudor Vlad Associate Director of the Cox Center |
Dr. Tudor Vlad, Associate Director of the Cox Center at the
University of Georgia, spoke with a journalism class about his work opening a
journalism training school in Moldova and the steps being taken to prepare for
the digital age.
The school, opening in May, will offer short sessions of
class to train professional journalists as well as bloggers, citizen
journalists, and community journalists. The first workshop will cover the
impact of new technologies on the media landscape.
“I think the internet will become more and more important
and that’s why I’m saying the bloggers, the community journalists will have an
important role” Vlad said. He said the school hopes to offer them the skills needed
to cover the news in this medium.
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Vlad said that, according to a 2012 survey, 35 percent of
Moldova’s population got some of their news from the Internet in the past
week. He said he believed this would
become an increasingly common news source in Moldova.
The Cox Center for international Mass Communication Training
and Research partnered with the 24-hour Moldovon news channel Publika to open
the school.
They hope to keep costs low for attending students with the
support of Publika and European funding. This will make it more affordable for journalists
to learn skills to compete in the new media age.
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