[CivilSoc] Transitions Online Celebrates 2nd Anniversary

Wed, 1 Aug 2001 10:38:07 -0700 (PDT)

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
1 August 2001
Transitions Online Celebrates Two-Year Anniversary With Award
PRAGUE, Czech Republic--This month Transitions Online (TOL)
(http://www.tol.cz/) celebrates its two-year anniversary as the premier
provider of news and analysis on the post-communist world.
Jeremy Druker, director and editor in chief, says, "Two years along,
we've survived the dot.com boom and then gloom. The hype has never
bothered us. We've continued providing quality content and building a
large, loyal readership. Our desire to produce a compelling publication
has luckily dovetailed with our non-profit mission of training young
reporters and strengthening independent journalism in the region."
On 3 July, TOL received the prestigious "Outstanding Contribution to
Online Journalism in Europe" award at the NetMedia 2001 conference.
Other winners included the BBC News Online and the Guardian Unlimited.
TOL was also recently profiled in a Wired News article on online
journalism in Europe (http://wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,45227,00.html).
Increasingly, TOL is recognized as a customized content provider,
using its expertise and network of regional correspondents to produce
varying depths of analysis for both expert and non-expert audiences.
A partner with CNN.com, TOL provides quick and succinct analysis of
the day's breaking news for CNN.com's general readership.
(http://europe.cnn.com/2001/WORLD/europe/04/20/montenegro.independence/)
TOL correspondents have appeared on interactive discussions hosted by
the WashingtonPost.com,
(http://discuss.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/zforum/01/world_raxhimi070601.htm)
and TOL editors recently wrote two chapters in Transparency
International's forthcoming book, The Global Corruption Report.
TOL is based in Prague and uses a network of local correspondents to
provide unique, cross-regional analysis. The magazine offers a local
angle on events in Central and Eastern Europe, the Balkans, and the
former Soviet Union. TOL is dedicated to strengthening independent
journalism in the region and serving as a model for how public service
media can flourish using new media technologies.
In the year ahead TOL will offer more diversity and more content with
the official debut of its news aggregator service, the TOL Wire
(http://wire.tol.cz), which will present daily news from local
partner newsrooms from across the region, and the Balkan
Reconstruction Report (http://balkanreport.tol.cz), a sub-publication
monitoring the efforts to rebuild southeastern Europe.
Transitions Online would like to thank the following organizations
for their generous support: The Robert Bosch Foundation, The Eurasia
Foundation, The Ford Foundation, The German Marshall Fund of the
United States, The Media Development Loan Fund, The Open Society
Institute, the Independent Journalism Foundation, ProMedia, The
Reuters Foundation, The Westminster Foundation for Democracy, Press
Now, The Guardian Foundation, Hewlett-Packard, Raiffeisenbank, and
the Swedish International Development Agency.
Check out Transitions Online at http://www.tol.cz.
Transitions Online: Intelligent Eastern Europe
Interview Contact: Jeremy Druker, Editor in Chief
Telephone: ++420-2-2278-0805
[email protected]
http://www.tol.cz
Transitions Online
22 Chlumova, 130 00 Prague 3, CZECH REPUBLIC
Voice ++420-2-2278-0805. Fax ++4202-2278-0805