Sponsored Courses

TOL runs a variety of programs in post-communist Europe and Central Asia that include workshops, distance learning, and internships – with two main aims: to offer practical journalism training, and to help participants either improve existing media outlets or set up new ones.

TOL МЕДИА АКАДЕМИЯ

Целью академии является обучение участников основным навыкам журналистики, представление новых тенденций и технологий онлайн-журналистики и социальных медиа. Медиа академия придерживается принципа «открытых дверей», который позволяет участникам, независимо от возраста, национальности и места проживания, проходить обучение на курсе.

Интернет Безопасность: TOL объявляет набор на курс дистанционного обучения журналистике для сотрудников СМИ и блогеров Центральной Азии «Интернет Безопасность»

Open Courses

TOL's open courses attract participants from all over the world. We specialize in practical training, working with an international team of respected reporters, editors and new media experts.

Audio Storytelling, July 2013

Receive online, personal mentoring from an experienced radio journalist with over 12 years of experience working for the BBC, Deutsche Welle, and other prestigious broadcasters. In the midst of the worldwide trend toward massive open online courses (MOOCs), TOL has decided to go in the opposite direction and offer the kind of personal consultation that has become increasingly difficult to find.

Foreign Correspondent Training Course, July 2013: This intensive, nine-day course will show participants how to break into and make a career in international reporting despite vast changes in the media landscape. The course will mix classroom training sessions with a practical reporting assignment – researching, writing, shooting, and filing your own story from Prague.

Travel Writing for Today's Media: Created by one of Central Europe's leading travel writers, this intensive 9-day course will review the major forms of commercial and non-commercial travel writing in today's market. Lectures will be aimed specifically at helping participants to identify the different forms of writing, improve their writing skills, and help them to develop their own careers in travel writing.

Foreign Correspondent Training Course, January 2014

This intensive, nine-day course will show participants how to break into and make a career in international reporting despite vast changes in the media landscape. The course will mix classroom training sessions with a practical reporting assignment – researching, writing, shooting, and filing your own story from Prague.

FEEDBACK

"The training of TOL is the best means to meet very interesting people from different countries, to learn a lot about new media and social journalism, to get some technical skills and finally, these courses suggest new ways to use professional knowledge and skills better than before."

Eka, Georgia

Digital Journalism, October 2011

"I liked the idea that you really had to do it yourself. Michael was always there for feedback and for solutions, but the article had to come from yourself."

Henk, The Netherlands

Foreign Correspondent course, July 2011

"Loved everything. Great experiences and memories."

Maria, Colombia

Foreign Correspondent course, July 2011

"It was important to go to another country ... because although I can learn about reporting back home it isn't foreign correspondence unless you're somewhere new."

Mary, USA

Foreign Correspondent course, July 2011

"It's perfect when you learn some theory and then put it straight into practice."

Ievgenia, Ukraine

Photojournalism course, August 2011

"This course will greatly improve every photo I take from here on"

Solana, Canada

Photojournalism course, August 2011

"This was the most valuable feature of the training - learning through real-life experience in the field."

Participant

Multimedia Reporting course, January 2011