The project expanded opportunities for independent reporters and media outlets in Armenia and Turkey to develop and disseminate balanced information on their neighbor’s cultural, political and economic context. For this purpose Internews supported Armenian and Turkish media professionals to carry out extended field reporting within their neighboring country.

Through an exchange tour they collected alternative views of government representatives, political party leaders, social activists and industry colleagues. This initiative yielded bi-lateral flow of news, social and analytical reports.

Further, Internews trained students of university film and journalism departments to documentary film techniques and provided mentoring for the production of small films featuring a social theme from their neighboring country.

The project was implemented in partnership with Yerevan Press Club, Global Political Trends Center (Turkey), CAM Films (Turkey) and Internews Network with funding support received from the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor (DRL).