Do you want to work in television, host a radio show or launch a portal with the most qualitative news? Maybe you want to create a newspaper or a magazine? If your answer is “Yes!”, we are waiting for you at the best place to lay the foundation of a career in the media – the School of Advanced Journalism!

What we are

The School of Advanced Journalism (SAJ) was launched in September 2006, and it is an important project of the Independent Journalism Center (IJC). From the start, our goal was to help teach a new generation of professional journalists in Moldova. Today, in a world and age when the media are a click away from everyone, the SAJ offers equal opportunities for all those who want to build a successful career in journalism and communication, as well as to those to wish to gain journalistic skills.

Who the SAJ students are

To become one of the 20 students in the 12^th graduate class (2017-2018), you only need to have higher education. You can be a graduate from a university department of law, economy, philology, technology, medicine, journalism, communications and, why not, theatre and fine arts. The important thing is to have ambition, curiosity and determination. If your answer is still “Yes!”, don’t hesitate and come to the SAJ!

What you will learn at the SAJ

The academic year at the SAJ lasts ten months, during which you will learn the best current journalistic practices from Europe and the USA. You will learn writing the most correct and balanced news stories, discover the secrets of the most viewed online materials, find out how to make a colorful radio report, and master the recipe of a successful photograph. Together with your classmates, you will make photos and video recordings, edit, design a newspaper and a magazine, create infographics, and participate in making a real radio and TV newscast. You will be doing it all in conditions similar to a real editorial office. And the School will provide you with all necessary equipment: recorder, photo and video camera, and personal computer.

Who will teach you

You will work with the best journalists and media experts from Moldova and from abroad, who will share with you their professional experience: Vasile Botnaru, Liliana Barbarosie, Diana Raileanu, Alina Turcanu, Tatiana Etco (all from the team of Radio Free Europe). Petru Macovei (Association of Independent Press), Alina Radu (“Ziarul de Gardă” newspaper), Elena Robu (Pro TV Chișinău), Liliana Nicolae (Radio “Europa FM”, Bucharest), Nadine Gogu (Independent Journalism Center), Dorin Scobioala (Reuters TV and Antena 3), Anatol Golea (RTR Moldova), Lilia Curchi (“Natura” magazine), Dumitru Ciorici (www.agora.md) freelancers Ludmila Andronic, Oxana Iutes, Nicolae Pojoga, Angela Ivanesi, Andrei Cibotaru, and many others.

Where you could work after graduation

After ten months of study you will be able to work in any media outlet in this country or abroad, because the School of Advanced Journalism is the “laboratory” that cultivates the professional skills necessary to a “universal” journalist, as required by today’s media all over the world... You could be a reporter of a top-rated television or radio; you could write news for an online portal or host your own show. Everything is up to you! And the proof that any dream can come true is in the over 160 graduates of the SAJ, many of whom have already made a name in journalism, communication or public life.

Files shall be submitted by May 15, 2017 at 17.00, and they shall include:

• CV;
• Form (download);
• Letter of motivation;
• Essay on a topic of your choice / article published (if it is);
• Copy of higher education diploma (2017 graduates can submit a certificate from their university department confirming that they are in their last year of study);
• Copy of identity card.

We are waiting for you at the following address: School of Advanced Journalism, 49/4 Tighina Street (3^rd floor), Chisinau. For further details regarding admission, please contact: Veronica Marin - telephone: 022.92.94.40, 079909414.

e-mail: vmarinATscoaladejurnalismDOTmd (* replace AT with „@” and DOT with „.”).

We guarantee the quality of studies, and your success is our priority!