JNews.am - by Journalists for the Future

Journalists' Team For Sustainable Future (CJTeam) is a non-profit NGO founded in 2007 by 20 young journalists, editors and media managers, who have Western standard educations and work for TV, radio, print and online media companies in Caucasus countries. Some of them are also lecturers on the Journalism Faculties of the leading universities of the region.

To promote dissemination of pluralism in all South Caucasus countries and create a healthy environment for the work of professional journalism gaining public confidence towards the young generation of journalists.

Appreciating the role of mass media in the formation of public opinion, CJTeam aims to help improve the quality of Caucasus media.

CJTeam believes that it is possible to improve living conditions of every person by providing fair and balanced information about human rights, social, health, political, environmental, economic and other spheres.

Aiming at sustainable Future and believing in the power of mass media to effect positive changes, CJTeam raises the following tasks for itself:

1. to spead objective information;
2. to facilitate special investigations and monitoring in the sphere of mass media;
3. to analyze the factors impeding the independent work of mass media;
4. to organize trainings and instructions in the sphere of media;
5. to translate and publish professional literature that will help develop media;
6. to implement media development projects;
7. to restore newspaper reading culture and to enlarge society's awareness of information available through electronic/online media;
8. to organize annual journalism awards;
9. to forge close relationships and cooperation with similar organizations in the Caucausus and outside of it, aiming to establish coalitions, as well as exchanging mutual experience;
10. to arrange meetings, symposiums and other activities, and to participate in similar events both in the Caucasus and abroad.

We appreciate the independence gained by our countries.

We are members of the generation of independence.

We support the establishment of democracy in our Countries.

We are a journalistic family with a team spirit.

We communicate via one voice with the world and believe in the productivity of team work.

We help and support each other and continually study and enlarge our knowledge, guided by contemporary developments.

Fairness, confidence and authority: to be always unselfish, and to obtain and maintain the confidence of society and to keep self reputation.

Independence: to be the "voice" of the public, not specifically affiliated with any power, political party or other special interest group.

Analysis: to assist in reflecting reality, providing complete information and satisfying public curiosity with multisided information.

Credibility: to scrupulously check all information and compare it with alternative sources before dissemination.

Respect:

• to work respecting personal dignity and individual rights;
• to respect the CJTeam mission, goals and values.

Partnership: to encourage our colleagues to join the CJTeam staff, if they share the principles and mission of the organization.