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The Russian-American Journalism Institute--a joint program of Rostov State University and New York University--brings together educators, journalists and advanced students from Russia and the United States to exchange ideas about how journalism is practiced and taught in both countries. Read more about us in English or in Russian.
This is a slightly revised version of the RAJI site for 2006; previous years are available on the original site.
Professor Mitch Stephens: mitch.stephens@nyu.edu
Rostov State University
New York University
NYU Journalism Website
NYU Journalism - Broadcast
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www.ithaca.edu/rhp
http://www.philol.rsu.ru/frame.html
By Daria Shlyakhina and Anastasia Osipova
Many young Russian people in Rostov-on-Don like to gather at a club called Podzemka (which translates into “underground”). The piercing festival is just one of the many events in which they find ways to express themselves. As this video shows, each has his own opinion about what piercing represents. Daria and Anastasia were on location to capture the event.
Yana, my translator, and I went to the police station at 11 p.m. on Friday night to go on a ride-along with Sergei Nickolaevich Aleksandrov, the lieutenant of the Rostov police, in the hopes of catching the underage “offenders” that infiltrate Rostov’s clubs late at night.
Continue reading "Bad Boys: Reporting Russian Police Part 2" »
After spending the night with the Russian police I can honestly say that it is something everyone should do once in their lifetime.
Continue reading "Bad Boys: Reporting on the Russian Police Part 1" »
Clean cut, straight A’s, conservative - these are my stereotypes when I think of the Boy Scouts.
Some members of Union of Rostov Artists say that perestroika changed their lives: they say it’s the worst thing that could have happened to them.
Is blogging the new (new, new) journalism? RAJI participants discussed this question and more during a morning session.
Continue reading "Blogging: The New (New, New) Journalism?" »
By Ella Zolotukhina
Rostov-on-Don was founded in 1749 as the Custom-House and became a city only in 1807.
By Julia Lyashenko
The dacha is a Russian phenomenon, but it can mean different things to different people.
By Yulia Partolina
It’s the dead of night. Headlamps, intellect, speed and adrenaline are in full force. A chemistry student, a bank clerk, a top-model, and an editor of a newspaper gather. You wonder what I’m talking about?
Ruthie and I knew that, to accomplish our reporting and teaching goals in Rostov, we would need to work with translators.
Russia is definitely not the country to come to if you harbor any insecurities about your bulging thighs or pudgy stomach. Women here seem to wake up perfectly tousled, ready for a night on the town, even at noon on a Tuesday. Americans are not so lucky, or at least not these two, who have spent the last week stuffing their faces with Russian sweets as they scan the eye-candy of Russian women that populate the streets here in Rostov.
On Thursday, the Russian journalism students finally had a chance to ask the Americans, “Who are you and what are you doing here in Rostov?” Read on to find out more about what they discovered.
Ruthie and I tagged along to watch two of our colleagues, Dasha and Nastia, report on a story about a piercing festival in the Selmash region of Rostov.
On Thursday, Ruthie and I joined our Russian colleagues for an honest discussion about the stereotypes that we hold about each other’s countries.
Welcome to the fourth year of the Russian-American Journalism Institute.