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ATG's new student journalism project
The Austrian Times Group (ATG) is offering students the opportunity to be community reporters and has taken on its first volunteer in the form of 17-year-old Mina Petrova from the Danube international school Vienna (DISV).
Mina, who is still a full-time schoolgirl at the DISV, will be writing community stories from the school.
At the end of the school year she is hoping to travel to London to take up a place studying journalism at City University.
Community reporter project manager Michael Leidig said: "We want to give students interested in journalism the opportunity to try out the job first-hand creating material that will be published. People like Mina who are accepted on the scheme will get guidance on how to approach the stories that they would like to cover – and then get help in the creative process from professional editors on our team."
Mina – who moved to Vienna to study four years ago and is originally from Bulgaria – said she saw the opportunity to get first-hand experience in writing as vital before she goes to university to study journalism full-time.
She said: "This is something I’ve been dreaming of for years now. I like journalism because there is so much the majority isn’t aware of. I’d really like to be one of those people who inform the uninformed and tell the untold - and not the kind of the ‘blind leading the blind’."
Mina's first story is being published this weekend and she will be writing throughout the year before heading up to take a placement to study journalism.
Leidig added: "We are hoping to get students from other community groups in Vienna and have already had enquiries from other schools - at the end of the day the English speaking community is our readership and supporting that community helps us as well."
The ATG is working on a number of similar initiatives for example on a project with experienced broadcaster Ellis Hill about the importance of the spoken word aimed at teachers in the classroom environment.
For further information on our work with teachers or to apply as a student reporter please write to David Rogers at office@austriantimes.at
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