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Margarita Akhvlediani, Director / Editor-in-Chief
margarita@gogroupmedia.net |
| Margarita Akhvlediani co-founded GO Group in February 2009 with Thomas de Waal and Mariam Betlemidze, and now heads the organization. She is also an editor-in-chief of Eyewitness Reporting Studio. Margarita has been a war reporter, as well as editor and producer working for more than 20 years through ethnic conflicts and civil wars in the Caucasus region. She was a Caucasus Programme Director for London-based Institute for War and Peace Reporting in 2002-2008, editing the international weekly Caucasus Reporting Service and training journalists throughout the Caucasus. She also teaches Conflict Reporting, Journalism Ethics and Media Management courses to graduate students at Georgian Institute of Public Affairs. In 2006, Margarita won a Knight Fellowship for Professional Journalists at Stanford University. In autumn 2007, she was a Dart Center Ochberg Fellow in Journalism and Trauma. |
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Thomas de Waal, GO Group co-founder
tdewaal@c-r.org |
| Thomas de Waal is a writer and analyst on the Caucasus, Russia and the Black Sea region. He is currently working on a short book about the Caucasus for Oxford University Press and is a research associate with Conciliation Resources in London. Thomas de Waal co-founded GO Group with Margarita Akhvlediani and Mariam Betlemidze in February, 2009. From 2002-8 Thomas worked as Caucasus Editor at the Institute for War and Peace Reporting, with responsibility for projects in the South Caucasus and editing IWPR’s weekly internet-based bulletin, Caucasus Reporting Service. He completed a degree in Russian and Modern Greek at Balliol College, Oxford, before working for the BBC World Service in London. From 1993-7 he reported in Moscow for the Moscow Times, The Times of London and The Economist, specializing in Russian politics and events in Chechnya. Tom is co-author with Carlotta Gall of Chechnya, A Small Victorious War, the first full-length book about Chechnya in English (Pan, 1997 and NYU Press, 1998) and is sole author of Black Garden: Armenia and Azerbaijan Through Peace and War (NYU Press, 2003), the first major book in English about the Nagorny Karabakh conflict. |
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David Pipia, Editor
david.pipia@gogroupmedia.net |
| David Pipia joined GO Group as editor from the very beginning and is responsible for entire production of Eyewitness Reporting Studio. He came to GO Group after working as editor and producer for Tbilisi-based Studio Re. David also is an editor at Tbilisi-based television Rustavi-2. David has fifteen years of experience of working as camera-man, editor and producer for various television and radio companies. He was only 16 when he got his first experience as cameraman at television company Odishi, and also worked as a head of the photo-video department at non-profit media organization Atinati, in his hometown, Zugdidi in Samegrelo region. Later he decided to change his career to economics and in 1994 entered a college in Zugdidi. Soon he realized that professional filmmaking was his only passion, and continued his studies in Tbilisi at Television and Radio Institute. Having constant aspiration for raising his professional skills, David participated in various seminars and trainings. |
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Maka Tsnobiladze, Deputy Director on communication and administrative issues
maka.tsnobiladze@gogroupmedia.net |
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| Maka Tsnobiladze joined GO Group as Deputy Director on communication and administrative issues from the very beginning. She previously worked as Office and Communications Manager for Caucasus Programme of UK-based Institute for War and Peace Reporting. She has 12-year working experience in governmental and non-governmental organizations on different positions. She began her career at Georgian News Agency "Sakinformi" as a photo publishing editor. She has a degree in English language and literature from Tbilisi State University of West European languages. |
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