Transitions was founded in 1999 and over the past years has built up a reputation as one of Central Europe’s leading journalism educators. To date, more than 12,600 journalists from around the world have passed through Transitions’ training programs, which have specialized in journalism and new media instruction.
Throughout the year, Transitions offers courses focused on a number of beats and methods of reporting. The courses include initial online sessions before students arrive in Prague and a minimum of one week of lectures and reporting experience in the Czech Republic, led by top-notch journalists working for either international (the BBC, AP, NPR, The Economist, The New York Times) or Czech media. The Transitions study abroad programs are reporting-based, which means that after morning lectures, students get out of the classroom and report real stories under the guidance of their instructors. At Transitions we believe in close, personalized attention to each student, and instructors provide individualized assistance and guidance for every student as they pitch, develop, and write their stories.
Since 1999, Transitions has hosted students from hundreds of overseas universities as students in our courses and as interns in our office. Leading institutions in Asia have contracted Transitions to design unique programs for their students at our European base in Prague. For the last few years, we have hosted large groups of students from leading universities in Hong Kong – Hong Kong Baptist University and the Chinese University of Hong Kong. In the summer of 2015, we were proud to welcome our first group of students from mainland China, from the prestigious Shanghai International Studies University (SISU).
Transitions has hosted students from hundreds of overseas universities as students in our courses and as interns in our Prague office. We have cooperated with universities in Asia, Europe and North America, and we even offer the option for universities or academic groups to work with us to design unique programs for their students.
In 2021, we launched interactive e-learning courses in multiple languages for journalists in Ukraine, Moldova, and the Balkans on how to report accurately in the age of an infodemic.
Transitions also offers internships. Interns work at Transitions magazine, TOL’s flagship publication, which is a leading Internet news magazine covering Central and Eastern Europe, the Balkans, and the former Soviet Union. Interns help review the press and other sources for topics, and are then assigned a news item of 250-300 words to write on deadline. The experience resembles an international newsroom and quickly gives students knowledge of the issues and events shaping the post-communist region, as well as a stable collection of news clips to use for further employment. Transitions also offers internships in our business/marketing, and development/grants departments.
Study Abroad
In recent years, Transitions has developed close cooperation with Hong Kong Baptist University and the Chinese University of Hong Kong, offering short-term study abroad opportunities for hundreds of students. We have also arranged briefing sessions for the University of Georgia’s course in Prague on travel writing and have worked in the past on a successful reporting project with the University of California, Berkeley. In the summer of 2015, we were proud to welcome our first group of students from mainland China, from the prestigious Shanghai International Studies University (SISU).
To see sample schedules, photos, and videos for some of the courses, please click the links below.
At Transitions we believe in close, personalized attention to each student, and instructors provide individualized assistance and guidance for every participant as they pitch, develop, report, and write their stories. Courses are led by top-notch journalists working for either international (BBC, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, AP, NPR,The Economist, The New York Times) or Czech media.
Each study package includes accommodation in a three or four-star hotel in the heart of Prague, breakfast, welcome and farewell dinners, public transportation tickets for the duration of the program, and admission to cultural events.
Our tailored courses are designed specially to meet your student’s academic objectives. They can be held at any time of the year and provide the flexibility of combining local media visits, educational excursions, an immersion course in Czech, and a cultural program.
Let Transitions make studying abroad as simple as it can be, and let us take care of everything for you.
Reporting project for the University of California Berkeley
Stories written by the students of the Shanghai International Studies University
Contact
For more information or specific questions about courses, please email education@tol.org.
Transitions
Baranova 33
130 00 Prague 3
Czech Republic
https://transitionsmedia.org/