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OUR TAKE: In the Flesh
For all the marvels of the technological age, Internet publishing can at
times be a lonely business. With a few exceptions, the editors here at
TOL communicate with our correspondents through email alone--even the
telephone has become obsolete and expensive compared to the efficiency
of computers. Though we couldn't run the publication otherwise, the
downside of the tech age is that the day-to-day exchange of
information--pitching ideas, the back-and-forth of editing articles,
even our own internal office communications--resides almost entirely on
the computer screen.
This past week, for the first time, nearly all--24 out of 26--of the TOL
correspondents, or local correspondents, came together in Prague for
our first correspondent Summit: four days of intensive journalism
training provided by TOL staff and a number of outside experts.
The primary motivation behind the conference was less for us to meet our
correspondents than to give them the chance to meet one another. Though
a few of them have collaborated informally in the past, we wanted to
give them a forum not only to run through formal workshop exercises but
also to share information and build friendships in the down time, so
that our network of correspondents can be strengthened in the future by
mutual exchange of information, perceptions, and ideas.
The lectures and workshops ranged from the technical side of Internet
publishing to the techniques behind writing feature articles to
self-protection while working in conflict zones. But nearly every topic
gained new dimensions as the correspondents demonstrated the incredible
range of applications each subject had across the region. Even a talk on
the basics of the editorial process moved from a standard-issue primer
on responsible sourcing to a discussion of the risks of publishing names
in Central Asia, where a story that might be considered innocuous in
Central Europe could put the sources in jeopardy in their home country.
During a session on ethical dilemmas in journalism, correspondents were
asked to share experiences when they had personally faced a problem. Our
Estonian correspondent recalled a university professor who had told his
class that anyone who brought him a bottle of whiskey would pass the
upcoming exam without having to take it. Though our correspondent said
he worried about possibly failing the exam if he wrote an article about
the situation, he went ahead and published the story, and the teacher
was subsequently fired. "If I did such a thing in Russia, I would be
expelled and nothing would change in the system," countered our
correspondent from St. Petersburg. In the same session, our Hungarian
correspondent discussed the dilemma of using stolen documents as
sourcing for articles. Our Bosnia correspondent talked about the
self-censorship that many Bosnian journalists face and their
unwillingness to discuss how Sarajevo is not, in fact, returning to its
former multiethnic glory. And our Nagorno-Karabakh correspondent told a
story of a journalist in her country who had been killed after
publishing an article on corruption among the local authorities--the
paper was also shut down.
It is the juxtaposition of experiences such as those that demonstrates
that it can make sense to talk about Central Asia and Central Europe in
the same breath. Though the issues facing post-communist countries are
essentially the same including corruption, ethnic conflict of varying
degrees, freedom of information--they have taken divergent directions.
Both the successes and the failures can be instructive, as reminders
that the issues facing these countries are ongoing and long-term. After
hearing the perceptions of our journalists from across the region, we
hope that a correspondent writing about media freedom in, say, the Czech
Republic, will remember that the same issue's underbelly in Tajikistan
is not such a remote concept.
For us as well, much of the real reward of the conference was simply to
see the region--which for us exists mostly as disparate stories filed by
people we'd never laid eyes on before--become manifest in the people who
live through the issues we discuss in the editorial room, to hear how
they think, to watch them process the stories and viewpoints they
received from their peers in neighboring countries. And, perhaps more
importantly, to see the region as not so much a patchwork of diverse
countries, but as a whole--as an alive and dynamic area experiencing the
same trends and developments and facing the same challenges, but often
at different stages. The summit showed that the process of
post-communist transition can sometimes be a hard beast to define, but a
beast that can be tamed and, hopefully, understood.
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