The Barents Mediasphere –project has published a Barents Media Guide, which serves both the journalists from inside and outside of the Barents region and the other public having interest in the theme.
The web guide includes the basic information about the media in the whole Barents Region presented in a form of a map. It also gives practical information essential for the work of journalists about the region and how to act there. At the website there are also video stories addressing the journalistic work on the Barents region and the cooperation networks of the regional media.
The Kolarctic ENPI-funded Barents Mediasphere project run the years 2012-2014. It aimed at the enhancing of the cross-border information. The lead partner was the Arctic Centre at the University of Lapland and other partners BarentsObserver and GTRK Murman. The Media Guide compiles the information and experiences produced by the project.
One part of the project was a survey directed to the journalists in the Barents region. The analysis of its results can be read at the website of the BarentsObserver online magazine.
”The survey clearly told, that the journalists in the Barents region have much interest to write stories about their neighboring countries and the life there. Many practical reasons such as the lack of time, tight finances and the focusing of the editors to the domestic region only, however cause that the cross-border reporting is very scarce”, says the Head of Science Communications at the Arctic Centre, Markku Heikkilä, who was the project director.
”The Barents Media Guide is meant to help cross-border working, to give basic information and to bring out, that the journalists working in the region have much in common”, says Heikkilä. The proper publication event of the Media Guide will take place in the journalist network Barents Press International’s annual meeting, which is held in Oulu at 21st March.
Additional information:
Head of Science Communications Markku Heikkilä, Arctic Centre, University of Lapland
markku.heikkila@ulapland.fi
+358 40 4844300