{"id":817966,"date":"2024-10-15T17:27:45","date_gmt":"2024-10-15T14:27:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rri.ro\/?p=817966"},"modified":"2024-10-15T17:33:39","modified_gmt":"2024-10-15T14:33:39","slug":"interview-with-young-journalist-tamar-sikharulidze-of-georgia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rri.ro\/en\/close-up\/rri-special\/interview-with-young-journalist-tamar-sikharulidze-of-georgia-id817966.html","title":{"rendered":"The power of words: young journalist Tamar Sikharulidze of Georgia"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Megalizzi-Niedzielski Awards are offered, every year, to aspiring journalists and honor the memory of Antonio Megalizzi and Bartek Piotr Orent-Niedzielski, young European journalists with a strong attachment to the EU and its values, who passed away after a terrorist attack in Strasbourg, in 2018.\u00a0They aim to reward and encourage promising European journalists who share Antonio and Bartek’s enthusiasm for the European project.<\/p>\n

This year\u2019s ten finalists have been selected from among 350 journalists who sent their applications from across all the EU, accession states and neighboring countries.<\/p>\n

One of them is Tamar Sikharulidze of Georgia. She is currently a 3rd<\/sup> year governance and social sciences student at Tbilisi Free University, a journalist at Tabula, who\u00a0 describes herself as an admirer of classic liberalism, big time fan of good humor, Italian B-list movies, and Memphis underground punk rock. \u00a0Let\u2019s listen to her, in an interview she granted to RRI\u2019s Eugen Cojocariu, shortly after the awards ceremony.<\/p>\n