Recruitment
Campaign
Page 1 of 3
For
more than 40 years, an international organization has brought
together thousands of professional journalists from over thirty
countries. With skiing as a common interest, networks have
been forming from east to west, and north to south.
Based in Lausanne and created in the midst of the Cold War,
the organization’s objective, as stated in article 1
of the statutes, is to “create and develop human and
friendly links among national and regional press colleagues,
without political, language or national boundaries”.
From the contacts established at the clubs’ national
meetings (where participants throughout the world are often
invited) or the annual international meeting, Bulgarians,
Polish or Romanian journalists have found help and assistance
through their colleagues from the West, like finding american
financing to buy the new press for Romana Libera.
SCIJ meetings give journalists a chance to exchange ideas
and perceptions, at lunch or on a ski slope with either a
Russian television director or Parisian Quotidien du peuple
Peking correspondent or the chief of the Associated Press
bureau in Rome, or the person responsible for 24 heures de
Lausanne’s cultural pages or the Figaro’s movie
critic, or a Jerusalem Post journalist, or Swedish television
energy specialist, or the person in charge of news briefs
at a weekly in Haute-Silésie. Contacts can become invaluable
when reporting in foreign countries, where SCIJ members are
often ready to give a helping hand, known as “friendly
links”, established in the statutes.
Next
 |
