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Younews.ge is the media collaboration platform of Georgia

This is a media collaboration platform for Georgia, where talented individuals can express their journalistic and writing skills, students of the faculty of journalism or political science tutored by their profs can undertake real journalistic tests, newspapers can share their relevant articles with a vibrant and multifarious community, and other communities can support their debates and conversations with dedicated tools and contents.

On a second time, all the structured contents inserted here, with respect for their copyright and copyright holders, will be further disseminated through a more attractive website optimized for mobile devices and allowing a rapid filtering/access of contents. This could be also a centralized, global platform gathering all local platforms like "younews.ge" all over the world. At the same time, younews.ge commits to share with all the authors and users who have contributed with the platform, on the basis of both qualitative and quantitative parameters to be commonly defined, all possible incomes received from donations, grants, advertising (whether allowed on the site) and other kind of income directly or indirectly caused by the contents posted on the platform, except the financial resources necessary to ensure the functioning of the site, again to be commonly determined.

Anyone can write on younews.ge, both anonymously or creating an account, then starting to contribute with the platform at various levels: providing summaries of articles in other languages (specifically for articles written in Georgian), writing articles, creating new digests or reviews, enriching the section with all media and newspapers, and even creating special pages to present specific authors, or any other kind of special page, up to intervening on the structure itself of the platform, that is contributing with its set of rules, creating new forms and fields for new or alternate kind of contents, and so forth.

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FAQ
Who can publish on Younews.ge ?
Everyone is welcome to publish either articles, news digests, or even to create a new kind of quality check, and to enrich the platform in any way. The first audience of the platform are expected to be students of the faculty of journalism or political science and their profs, however whatever commentator and even professional writers/journalists are strongly encouraged to contribute with the platform
Are contents moderated and the published articles belong to me (as author) ?
Younews.ge policy is that contents are moderated by administrators and moderators following the agreed rules/set of guidelines of the platform, however a strong emphasis is given to authorship of articles: articles and news digests are expected to belong to the respective authors and therefore only minimal changes are allowed or encouraged by other users/authors. Specific technical measures might be implemented at this regard.
In what language articles should be ?
Currently we accept articles in Georgian and English (it will be discussed whether to insert Russian as well). An article in another language than English shall include a summary in English.
What is the purpose of Younews.ge ?
Younews.ge aspires to be a collaborative platform distinguished by high journalistic and literary standard, where talented individuals can express their skills, and possibly different media can converge onto an unique platform.
How younews.ge can be immediately used ?
  • You can just add a News media entry in order to contribute to create a comprehensive list of online newspapers and news media platforms for each country (starting from Georgia). Then you could create an article, write a News digests, and to fill-in a quality check for any article on the web.
    Following, you can contribute more substantially, expanding the overall structure of the platform.

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