What to enter the Civil Journalism School?

The School of Civil Journalism is an educational project that launches the COLTA.RU website together with the Mediastandard Foundation with the support of the Civil Initiatives Committee and Norilsk Nickel OJSC.

Its task is to educate new professional highly qualified journalists working in the field of social journalism.

The form of training is full -time. Education consists of lectures, seminars and master classes.

To learn more about how the school will be organized, who will teach and what it will teach in it, you can here .

Who can go to the Civil Journalism School?

A student of the school can be any person who has passed a competition of two rounds, in absentia and full -time.

The applicant may or not have a preceding journalistic experience.

There are no age restrictions for entering the school.

School training is free. Classes are evening.

The school will work in Moscow. Housing is not provided to students.

In total, 15 students will be typed in school.

How does the competition work for entering the school of civil journalism?

The competition consists of two rounds: a creative correspondence competition and a full -time interview.

The first round of the competition and application

The first tour of the competition is held from February 10 to February 26, 2015. Reception of creative work for the competition ends on February 26.

To participate in the first round, it is necessary to send an application for the competition. The application consists of three parts: mandatory creative task, questionnaires, additional materials in free form.

1) creative task

As you know, Russia has entered during a difficult economic crisis that affects all spheres of life. To participate in the competition, write the text about how the crisis was reflected in life directly around you.

We expect from you not abstract material about economic or social circumstances in which the country ended up, but a specific journalistic work.

How did the crisis affect the life of your area, your city, individuals? What acute questions did he raise? We offer you possible extensions of this topic: unemployment, problems with loans, impoverishment and decline in solvency, problems of small business, crisis and education, crisis and management, the influence of the crisis on individual human destinies and relations between people.

Find a specific case or a specific human story related to the financial crisis, and tell about it in the form of journalistic material.

The material can be made in genres: reporting, investigation, essay, interview, monologue.

The maximum size of the material: 6000 printing marks with spaces.

2) questionnaire

Download here and fill out the application form of the school of civil journalism.

If you have a preceding journalistic experience, indicate in the corresponding graph of the questionnaire the links to your two most successful publications available on the network.

3) other materials

You can also attach to your application no more than two journalistic materials of any genre that you would like to share with the selection committee. Other materials are not included in the mandatory set of documents necessary to participate in the competition.

How to send an application for the first round

Pull the materials sent to the competition in one ZIP archive. The archive should be called your name and surname (for example, “Maria Vengerova”).

Send the archive with your application to: konkurs @ colta . ru . In the subject of the letter, indicate: "School of Civil Journalism."

How to find out that you went to the second round

If you went to the second round of the competition, you will receive a notice from us about this by e -mail until March 3, 2015 inclusive.

The second round of the competition

The second round of the competition is full -time and will be held in the form of an interview with the selection committee of the School of Civil Journalism.

The second round of the competition will be held from 9 to 11 March 2015 in Moscow.

The results of the competition

The list of applicants to the school will become known on March 13, 2015. It will be published on the website colta.ru.

Classes at the Civil Journalism School will begin on March 16 and will end on July 20, 2015.

We wish you success at the competition - and we hope to see you among students of the school of civil journalism!