Steering-Committee of "Asia-Europe Network for Young Journalists"

Five young journalists from Europe as well as from Asia were selected as steering-committee for "Asia-Europe Network for Young Journalists". These young professional journalists lead the project and are available for further cooperation.

Some young journalists from Asia and Europe already have had the benefit interacting and learning from each other when they attended the ASEM Youth Dialogue on "Asia-Europe Strategic Choices for Equitable Development" in the Philippines in 2007, the 6th "ASEF Journalists' Colloquium“ in The Netherlands and the 19th International Youth Forum in South Korea in 2008. Additionally, the first act of cooperation was undertaken during the “Asia-Europe Young Leaders Symposium – First Asia-Europe Young Urban Leaders Dialogue” in November 2008 in Madrid, Spain. During this meeting young European journalists and their Asian colleagues reported jointly together on www.orangelog.eu.

After these initial contacts and projects, the project-partner European Youth Press and Asian Media Information and Communication Centre decided to establish an "Asian-European network of young journalists" and signed a joined “Memorandum of Understanding“ agreeing to cooperate over the next two years in this framework. This network will build up the social networks youthmedia.eu (for Europe) and AYCN.net (for Asia) as starting points and develop the Asia-Europe dimension further by workshops and online-reporting from events in 2010. In order to advise the project partners and actively support this cooperation, both partners called for young journalists of both continents to establish a steering committee for the network. Out of almost 100 very promising applications the partners selected five Asian and five European colleagues, who have now established the steering committee and exchanged ideas for 2010/2011 cooperation already via their existing mailinglist. These members are professional journalists working for big media companies on both continents and have a strong commitment to improve Asia-Europe relations. Additionally the responsible project managers from AMIC and EYP joined the steering-committee, which had their first meeting from 12th until 15th January 2009 in Singapore:

Members from Europe

• Dora Haller (Ms), 27 years, France/Hungary, dorahaller@gmail.com
  Hungarian finance journalist for NewsAgency, based in Paris (France)
• Anna Siitam (Ms), 24 years, Sweden/Germany, a.siitam@youthpress.org
  Freelance journalist in Germany, former Chairwoman of European Youth Press
• Nabeelah Shabbir (Ms), 25 years, UK/France, editors@cafebabel.com
  Asia-Europe coordinator from cafebabel.com, biggest youth-portal in Europe
• Alessia Cerantola (Ms), 28 years, Italy, alessia.cerantola@gmail.com
  Italian journalist for TV, currently based in Japan
• Maciej Duszynski (Mr), 26 years, Poland, duszynski@koalicja.net
  Freelance journalist from Poland, Chairman of Koalition of Freelance journalists

Members from Asia:

• Michelle Chung (Ms), 28 years, Australia/China, shukwah@gmail.com
  Freelance journalist based in China for foreign newspapers
• Bruce Avasadanond (Mr), 29 years, Thailand, avas.bruce@gmail.com
  MA from Ateneo de Manila University, lecturer at university in Bangkok
• Jekki Pascual (Mr), 23 years, Philippines, jekki_bp@gmail.com
  News-journalist for Phillipines TV-channel ANC
• Bich Ngoc Ngo (Ms), 24 years, Vietnam, ngobichngoc85@gmail.com
  Graduate student from Vietnam Journalism School, responsible for PR at the school
• Karan Gupta (Mr), 29 years, India, miec99@gmail.com
  College Counselor and Teacher, Jai Hind College & CEO of Karan Gupta Consulting

If you want to share experiences or have ideas for cooperation in 2010/2011 please send them an email to their mailinglist asia-europe@youthmedia.eu.

Contacts of the project-partners
Asian Media Information and Communication Centre
Dr Sundeep Muppidi, Secretary General of AMIC
Björn Richter, Project Manager AYCN.net, brichter@amic.org.sg
Phone: (65) 6792 7570

European Youth Press – network of young media makers
Letizia Gambini, Member of European Board
l.gambini@youthpress.org
Mobile: (32) 472 548 740

Tags: steering-committee, Asia, Europe, EYP, AMIC