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Program information
The YaLa Academy’s Aileen Getty School of Citizen Journalism brings together leading journalists and new media experts to train Middle Eastern and African youth in basic journalism techniques, photo- and video-journalism and 21st Century activism. Building upon an initiative launched in 2014 in partnership with the U.S. Institute of Peace, this online program is a unique combination of new media training and peacebuilding experience. In regions where media is too often a tool for nationalism, division and fear, YaLa citizen journalists are being empowered to express themselves and tell a very different kind of story.
Applications are now being accepted for the Fall 2016 program, click here to read more about the program, or here to apply.
YaLa's innovative new media platform - YaLa Press (https://yalapress.wordpress.com) - serves as a stage for YaLa bloggers, as well as a collaborative platform for the students of the YaLa Academy's Aileen Getty School of Citizen Journalism to publish their pieces and co-manage the portal. The School’s country chapters in Israel, Palestine, Morocco, Tunisia and Egypt will become hubs for local content on the platform and catalysts for local citizen journalism including video, photography and blogs in English, Arabic, Hebrew and French. It is not about “representing” the Middle East through expert analysis, but rather about “presenting” it, simply and authentically. YaLa's unique blogs have been featured on several partner media outlets including a regular column on the Huffington Post. Over the past three years, YaLa Press has opened a unique window into the lives of young people across the region, publishing nearly 300 blogs written by young people from Palestine, Israel, Egypt, Jordan, Morocco, Tunisia, Algeria, Iraq, Sudan, Yemen and beyond. YaLa Press is bringing to the world the human dimension of the Middle East through stories of the real-life experiences of young people in the region.
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