Following the call for applications launched last June by the Council of Europe 170 teams/candidates applied over the summer for being part of the mentoring programme.

10 of them were the lucky ones! They come from Armenia, Belgium, Germany, Greece, Italy, Lithuania, the Netherlands and the UK. Check their profiles here.

Retour MIRZOYAN Gayane

Freelance multimedia reporter in Armenia
MIRZOYAN Gayane

Gayane Mirzoyan is a freelance multimedia reporter in Armenia. She worked as an editor for the Institute for Institute for War and Peace Reporting (IWPR) in Armenia. As a Media trainer, she was involved in different educational programs of Journalists for the Future NGO, Public Journalism Club, Media Center as well as EU Media Neighborhood program. Gayane has an interest to startups too. She was a founder of Taghinfo.am, a Yerevan districts news platform, which was created in the frame of the Social Innovation Camp Armenia (November 2011).

Nvard Hohvannisyan has experience in collaborating at several media outlets since 2009. Currently, she is a freelance journalist, based in Tbilisi and covers social and political issues. She is the Armenian media manager of regional Chai-Khana project. Nvard has an MA in Journalism and Media management, and earned her degree in 2012, at Georgian Institute of Public Affairs (GIPA).

Urbanista  - is a multimedia portal about urban news in Armenia, aimed to inform people  about specific problems of Armenian cities -  tell stories about diverse communities, development issues and travel destinations. Project intend to change urban communities life with help of journalism by giving the voice to the most neglected and marginalized part of community, such as homeless people, refugees, elderly, orphan children, disabled people, national minorities etc.  Urbanista's goal is to engage communities to an urban development policy as well as to create a network of local journalist all over the country to spread a light on life in rural towns.