The Minister of Culture Award 2011 for a journalist of the Roma Media Centre →
Bratislava 27 February (RPA) – Seven awarded professionals received the Minister of Culture Award 2011 at the end of this week. One of them was PhDr. Kristína Magdolenová, the executive director of the Roma Media Centre. She received this award from the Minister of Culture for her work in applying ethical principles in the media, for her film and TV works for and about Roma, and the increase of media literacy of the Roma community. This is another important award received by the journalists of the Roma Media Centre.
“It is important for me to stress that I consider this award as an appreciation of the work of our entire centre. Without my colleagues who have been putting all their effort, energy and time into our work and with whom we have been overcoming obstacles together, it would have been impossible to present what we have achieved. In the past 12 years, we have grown from a small news agency with a web site to an agency cooperating with the Slovak public television and radio, and we have become a phenomenon in Europe. Although small, we are a strong Roma media organisation that shows how it is possible to engage actively into the solution of problems of the Roma community through media, and from within the Roma community because our programmes are prepared by Roma journalists in the Roma language”, said Magdolenová. “I am extremely thankful to my colleagues that they have been so persistent in this fight for Roma media.”
As she said, it is very important that Roma media are a voice of Roma because only through Roma media we can perceive the world of this community realistically, as well as judge and help in building their identity. “Only through identity and its strengthening we can get out of problems in which a large part of this community lives. As a Roma media agency we are a voice of Roma, we show their life in all aspects, we show how they see society, and how society sees them. We are looking for things that connect us, not for those that divide us. Our experience says that sometimes a little is enough to solve big problems. That is why Roma media are important not only for the Roma community but also for the society as a whole, if we want to live together in peace and understanding.”
The Roma Media Centre has become, as she said, a facilitator of the public opinion, an instrument with a strong integrating character addressing the Roma community as well as the majority population.
The Minister of Culture Award is bestowed for a particular major endeavour in the preceding year, for lifelong work or long-standing contribution to different areas of culture. It is awarded by the Minister of Culture on the advice of a panel or at his or her own initiative. This year, the award was also bestowed on: Eduard Grečner for his lifelong significant contribution to the cultural development of the Slovak Republic, especially of the Slovak cinematography, Daniel Hevier for his collection of poems Vianočná pošta (Christmas Mail) and for his significant impulses and his work in encouraging reading of children and youth, Pavol Bršlík for his excellent artistic results, for his representation of Slovak vocal art on opera and concert houses abroad, Miroslav Žbirka for his lifelong artistic contribution to pop-music and for the remarkable project Symphonic Tour, Marián Vach for the musical performance of the opera Coriolanus by Ján Cikker and his previous artistic work in musical culture in Slovakia, and Marián Pauer for his significant contribution to the fields of photography history, criticism and theory in the Slovak as well as international context.
Photo: Website of the Slovak Ministry of Culture
(source: “The Minister of Culture Award 2011 for a Journalist of the Roma Media Centre.” RPA.sk. 27 Feb. 2012. Web. http://www.mecem.sk/rpa/?id=media&lang=english&show=21979)
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