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Project name: Professional Media Program I (ProMedia I)

Start date: FY 1995

End date: FY 1999

Project description:
The first phase of the program focused mainly on strengthening relevant legislation and the media associations most closely involved in laws. It trained professional and trade associations and NGOs, helping them to protect free speech and advocate on behalf of journalists and the media. It fostered the development of the Association of Bulgarian Broadcasters (ABBRO), ProMedia worked to develop a draft Radio and Television Law, establish the Bulgarian Media Coalition to cooperate on media regulatory and professional issues in Bulgaria, and the Broadcast Training Center in Sofia for television training.

Implementer: International Research and Exchanges Board (IREX) The National Forum Foundation (subsequently Freedom House) and the Center for Foreign Journalists (subsequently the International Center for Journalists)

Funding: $1,114,000