2008 Woodie Awards
Journalism dept. to offer study abroad in Kosovo
Charlie Turner
Issue date: 1/25/08 Section: Campus
Despite years of political contention and military conflict, many experts place the Serbian province of Kosovo on the path to independence. With such placement, the burgeoning nation provides a unique opportunity for Miami University's journalism students, said assistant journalism professor Ed Arnone.
The department has coordinated a two-month, eight credit hour Kosovo study abroad program scheduled for this summer.
The program, though open to all students, targets journalism and communication majors, hoping to give students an opportunity to intern at a news Web site, KosovaLive.com, and take classes at the same time, Arnone said, coordinator of the program.
"This is a real chance to go and see journalism practiced in very different ways under different conditions," said Richard Campbell, director of the journalism program. "We take our press freedom for granted sometimes here."
According to recent news articles, Kosovo, or Kosova as the majority Albanian population calls it, is an autonomously governed province of Serbia, bordering The Republic of Macedonia, Albania and Montenegro. Since 1999, after UN military involvement, Kosovo has been under the governance of the United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK).
Students participating in the program will stay at a hotel in the capital city of Pristina and take classes while working four days per week in the KosovaLive newsroom.
According to Campbell, unlike many high profile news internships where interns spend much of their time pouring coffee and stapling papers, students will have opportunities to write their own stories and become intimately involved in the reporting process.
"It provides more hands on experience than you can get in most other places," Campbell said.
Ed Arnone, journalism professor and coordinator of the Kosovo program, agreed with Campbell and said that the program offers unique opportunities for students.
"The educational experience of talking to people and seeing those people in their daily lives in the country and writing stories about that really is the kind of experience that prepares them very well," Arnone said.
The department has coordinated a two-month, eight credit hour Kosovo study abroad program scheduled for this summer.
The program, though open to all students, targets journalism and communication majors, hoping to give students an opportunity to intern at a news Web site, KosovaLive.com, and take classes at the same time, Arnone said, coordinator of the program.
"This is a real chance to go and see journalism practiced in very different ways under different conditions," said Richard Campbell, director of the journalism program. "We take our press freedom for granted sometimes here."
According to recent news articles, Kosovo, or Kosova as the majority Albanian population calls it, is an autonomously governed province of Serbia, bordering The Republic of Macedonia, Albania and Montenegro. Since 1999, after UN military involvement, Kosovo has been under the governance of the United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK).
Students participating in the program will stay at a hotel in the capital city of Pristina and take classes while working four days per week in the KosovaLive newsroom.
According to Campbell, unlike many high profile news internships where interns spend much of their time pouring coffee and stapling papers, students will have opportunities to write their own stories and become intimately involved in the reporting process.
"It provides more hands on experience than you can get in most other places," Campbell said.
Ed Arnone, journalism professor and coordinator of the Kosovo program, agreed with Campbell and said that the program offers unique opportunities for students.
"The educational experience of talking to people and seeing those people in their daily lives in the country and writing stories about that really is the kind of experience that prepares them very well," Arnone said.
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