Caucasus Media Investigations Center

web: http://cmic.aznet.org

Organizational background:

Caucasus Media Investigation Center (CMIC) was founded in Azerbaijan on December of 2004 to help the development of media investigations in Caucasus countries. CMIC's activity unites journalists from Azerbaijan, Armenia and Georgia. The Caucasus Media Investigation Center formed as a result of training programs for journalists from Azerbaijan and Georgia. The International Center for Journalists (ICFJ), based in Washington, D.C., organized the training to help improve coverage of human trafficking.

Many of the journalists from both programs met during follow-up in Warsaw, Poland in 2004. They then agreed to collaborate on a Web site that would be useful for journalists who want to investigate human trafficking or other social problems in the South Caucasus. The objectives of the organization are:

- To investigate serious problems in the region and show the ways of solution of the problems in the investigative stories;- To investigate the cases of human trafficking, circulation of narcotics, corruption, Human Rights problems, health care problems and to organize article competitions to draw the attention of journalists to the investigative journalism;

- To take interviews from foreign experts to be impartial in commentaries;

- To hold discussions on different problems; to help journalist from different countries to do joint media investigations;

- To award the best journalist stories on different themes in regularly held competitions and to stimulate them to grow as professionals.

CMIC's representative in Georgia is Giorgi Molodini: giorgi120@yahoo.ca

Last correction date of the file: 24/7/2008 - 15:21:26