Ruslan Kuharchuk, president of the Novomedia Association held media course in the United States which was about a week and a half. Training took place in Rochester (NY) and lasted from 14th  to 23rd of  July. More than fifty students from different states have passed special courses.
Educational part about media issues became part of the two-month training program in the summer Bible school, which takes place on the U.S. East Coast constantly. In 2011 the school is functioning at the Slavic Pentecostal Church (Pastor is Gregory Kasap).

Journalist and social activist from Ukraine was talking about informational infrastructure, genres in journalism, types of texts, PR, information department of the church, and collaboration with different types of media. In separate topic he also mentioned about civil journalism and use of social networks.

The topic "The laws of public communication." caused particular interest among students. After the theoretical part of the seminar Ruslan Kuharchuk held special workshop with the students. The workshop presented a talk show where students were using secular (social, medical, ethnic and cultural) arguments to defend Christian perspective on issues of abortion, homosexuality and euthanasia.

Organizers and students were thankful to the Novomedia Association for the course. In turn Ruslan Kuharchuk said that Ukrainian organization is always ready to support that kind of trainings of Slavic Diaspora in the U.S.A.

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