We start from the idea that independent, courageous media are part of a healthy, confident, successful society. Untainted information is essential for democracy and development. The job of the good journalist is to find out what's going on, to understand it and then to let people know about it, as interestingly and accurately as possible. We work at every stage of this process.

Jemstone runs MASTERCLASSES IN MEDIA SKILLS: TV set design; studio directing; VT-picture editing; news presenting; political cartooning; Arabic-language writing; radio production; forward planning; photo-journalism; web-publishing.

Upgrading the media means STRENGTHENING MANAGEMENT, with seminars on: advanced internet; establishing and running training departments; the management of change; audience and readership research; organisational
re-engineering; financial management systems; leadership and team-building.

Jemstone is a specialist in SPECIALIST JOURNALISM including: business, economics and finance; reporting on Europe; the media; the environment; education; sport; health. As well as running courses in general, basic, good journalism -- editing, reporting and researching skills.

Also CONSULTANCY on: media relations strategy; journalistic ethics;
training needs analysis; conflict resolution; mid-career development;
communications and presentation; web-site design.

And we are developing a COMMUNICATIONS FOR DEVELOPMENT dimension, to handle all the publicity, media and report-writing needs of development organisations and ngos.

Jemstone projects have been funded and supported by:
The European Union, the World Bank, UNDP, the Dutch Government, the British Government, the Finnish Government, the Danish Government, PriceWaterhouse Coopers, Friedrich Naumann Stiftung, DFID, Egypt National Parks, BBC, GCC, Al Jazeera Satellite TV, Arabia-on-Line, As Safir in Lebanon, Al Ahram in Cairo, Jordan TV and many other organisations in the MENA and Gulf regions