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Mr. Haykaz Simikyan Editor-in-chief of “Vanadzoryan Khchankar” print media outlet called yesterday. He was talking about how very interesting and popular the Healthcare supplement was and that he is increasing his request from 3000 to 3900 copies.
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"WOMEN ENGAGED IN POLITICS IN ARMENIA ARE HEROES"
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On the occasion of International Woman’s Day (March 8), newspaper distributors wearing ArmeniaNow shirts and carrying specially-designed bags gave out 5,000 copies of the free 15,000 copies of “Listening to the Quietened Voice” in Yerevan. About 1,000 additional copies were distributed similarly in select regions.
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Healthcare Supplement—«We need more issues like this!»
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“This is one of the best ways to increase the awareness of the population. People have to know about their rights when they apply to doctors. Also various other problems were touched upon in the articles such as family medical care, pediatrics, local environment and its impact on our health.
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IREX CMSPA Training Fosters Award Winning Editorial
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Ms. Gayane Abrahamyan, a reporter form ArmeniaNow on-line newspaper, has received an award - First prize in the UN Population Fund competition on AIDS prevention (Tbilisi, Georgia).
“The workshop made a great impact on creating the article: I had meant to write a story on AIDS, but I wasn’t certain I had enough material and information for that,” says Ms. Abrahamyan.
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Watchdogs in Action
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There is a popular saying “Ignorance of the law is no excuse”. Whether Armenian television broadcasters were ignorant of the law or simply chose to be ignorant is not known. But it is known that during January-March 2006 USAID’s Core Media Support Project’s (CMSPA) monitoring unit detected a dramatic increase – almost as high as 52 times of the previous rate –in illegal advertising activity.
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NATIONAL TV RATINGS SELF-SUSTAINABILE AFTER ONLY SIX MONTHS |
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In January of 2006, one of the most recognized and respected research organizations, AGB Nielsen, made a decision to invest $400,000 USD in the USAID funded CMSPA television ratings project. AGB’s contribution allowed the project to fully fund the installation of a peoplemeter system in the Yerevan market. The ratings initiatives, supported by IREX/CMPSA and funded by USAID injected an additional $400,000 dollars of independent investment into the program this past June when AGB Nielsen moved to expand the Yerevan peoplemeter system nationwide.
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