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18/09/2025

In just a few days, the Concordia summit will bring global leaders together to address some of the most urgent issues of our time, including the future of independent media.

Earlier this year, our board member Tatiana Der Avedissian shared her perspective on ‘How to Keep the Free Media Alive’ in an opinion piece published on Concordia’s blog page.

Her piece highlights how independent journalism in countries like Armenia is more susceptible to the current challenges facing the media industry, such as navigating regulatory changes and diminishing revenue sources. She argues for a new playbook that provides a sustainable model for media organizations so they can ‘...keep reporting — through political storms, economic crashes, and shifting regimes.’

📖 Read the full article here:
https://shorturl.at/ckU4x

13/09/2025

We are looking forward to returning to the Concordia Summit as a 2025 Program Partner where we will be hosting a panel on media freedom.

2024 was a pivotal political year, with more than sixty countries heading to the polls. A year later, we are beginning to feel the early effects of those results, especially its impact on the media.

We’ll explore the sustainability of a free and diverse media in the current climate and what this means for smaller outlets. We'll be announcing the speaker lineup shortly!

📍New York | Sept 21–24
🔗Register: https://www.concordialive.com/2025AnnualSummit/begin

11/09/2025

Once a fortress guarding Armenia’s southern border, Shvanidzor now faces a different battle.

During the driest months of the year, residents queue with bottles at the village aqueduct, their only lifeline. Due to water scarcity, pressures of climate change, neglect, and broken political promises, the village is drying up.

TAP intern, Martha Gathercole (.g04), tells the human side of this crisis in her latest article for .

“You need to live here to understand the issue,” says Emma, one of many residents of the village, waiting for help that never seems to come.

🔗 Read the full article in bio.

10/09/2025

When garages tell stories…

Yerevan’s ordinary garages, once just metal boxes for cars, are now libraries, coffee shops, workstations, and more. This overlooked part of Armenian urban life is taking the spotlight at Triennale di Milano, one of the world’s top art and architecture exhibitions.

The Armenian Pavilion turned a single garage into a “Triennale inside Triennale,” showcasing 27 works that make viewers see ordinary architecture in a whole new way.

TAP intern Minahil Arif () reports for .

🔗 Read the full story here: https://shorturl.at/Jk1pR

04/09/2025

🇦🇲 We’re excited to welcome Catherine Odom () our newest international intern. With a strong background in investigative reporting, she has contributed to the Miami Herald, The Marshall Project, and the Chicago Sun-Times, and more. As a recent graduate of Northwestern University’s master’s program in investigative journalism, Catherine brings both depth and dedication to her work.

Most recently, Catherine was awarded a Fulbright Young Professional Journalist grant. She spent a year in Germany reporting on far-right politics, continuing her passion for telling in-depth global stories.

We’re proud to partner once again with as the host for Catherine’s internship. Known for its in-depth coverage, the newsroom offers interns the opportunity to engage with thoughtful, high-impact journalism and gain firsthand experience.

📌 Over the next 10 weeks, Catherine’s reporting journey will take shape here in Armenia as she builds experience and adds new stories to her portfolio.

👉 We look forward to sharing her work soon.

03/09/2025

MAXIM Magazine's Deputy Editor Nicolas Stecher () shares his experience from a recent trip to Armenia, highlighting the centuries-old brandy tradition made famous by ARARAT brandy.

The article traces the deep roots of Armenian brandy, from the Areni-1 cave winery, dating back to 4,100 BC, to the Soviet era when Armenia was designated the region’s brandy-making hub, and to its global recognition today.

At the heart of the piece is the legacy of master blender Margar Sedrakyan, whose innovations created blends like Dvin, famously loved by Winston Churchill.

“Perhaps this is a result of another Sedrakyan innovation: the insistence on using only pure Armenian spring water in the proofing and blending, as opposed to distilled water, which was previously the norm,” Stecher notes in his article.

Read the full article here⬇️
https://shorturl.at/T2el4

02/09/2025

Life at Armenia’s southern border is quiet, yet full of courage.

On a recent trip to Syunik, Nerkin Hand, TAP intern Martha Gathercole (.g04) met families living just meters from the border and learned about orchards destroyed by mines, classrooms under the watch of Azerbaijani posts, and children already thinking about defending their homeland.

A local schoolteacher reflected on the daily courage of the villagers:
“Everyone here is a hero, a woman who gives birth here is a hero for dealing with the stress of life.”

Read the full piece on CivilNet⤵️
https://shorturl.at/DDiuE

01/09/2025

Armenia and Pakistan have officially established diplomatic relations.

The agreement was signed in Tianjin, China, during the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation summit, where Armenian FM Ararat Mirzoyan and Pakistan’s FM Mohammad Ishaq Dar exchanged a joint communiqué.

This marks a historic step, as Pakistan had not recognized Armenia since its independence in the early 1990s. The move opens doors for cooperation in areas such as economy, education, culture, and tourism.

Coverage by TAP intern Minahil Arif, published on CivilNet.

📌Read the full news here: https://shorturl.at/dyLaD

29/08/2025

📌 Armenia is taking back its spot on the world wine map, according to Forbes.

The feature highlights the country’s 6,000-year-old wine story, showing how the world’s oldest winery in Areni connects to today’s revival of native grapes and a growing global presence.

“Armenia will always be proud of the brandy that once charmed Churchill. But its wine story—anchored in a cave older than the pyramids—is what it wants the world to remember now.”

The piece was written by wine and travel journalist Layne Randolph ().

🔗Read the full article here: https://shorturl.at/mrDwN

28/08/2025

“Jazz is a human language of communication.”

At 87, Martin Vardazaryan, a pioneer who shaped an entire musical genre, looks back on the songs that carried Armenians through war and change, TAP intern Martha Gathercole reports for Civilnet.

“I’ll say this: during the war, the Ayvazyan’s Jazz orchestra played on the front lines. Not just behind the lines, but on the front lines. When a bit of land would be liberated, they would be playing with the enemy right there,” said Mr. Vardazaryan.

Read the stories behind the music and how Armenian jazz survived, adapted, and thrived against all odds.

Tap to read: https://shorturl.at/8A9sX

26/08/2025

What happens after the headlines fade? For TAP intern Minahil Arif ( ), the question became personal and her story led her to ask what exactly happened to the people of Artsakh after displacement.

Living in California, she had never once heard anyone mention Nagorno-Karabakh. In Armenia, it’s everywhere — and that’s why she traveled to Goris, in search of answers

“I’ve realised that for people in Armenia, the trauma is multilayered – one is the actual events that took place in September 2023 that led to the loss of Nagorno-Karabakh and another is that no one in the world cares to talk or learn about a huge loss to this country.”

👉Read the full story on CivilNet:
https://shorturl.at/J5qCC

25/08/2025

Continuing our Syunik stories, TAP intern Charlotte Snoonian (.snoonian) shares her reflections from the southern border.

Her piece reads like a diary of a city at the edge, capturing a family living under constant threat, a construction worker from Iran renovating a village school, a priest sharing his wisdom, a woman displaced from Artsakh, and more, experiencing the lives of people rarely seen beyond the mountains.

Read Charlotte’s full story on Mediamax.am
https://mediamax.am/en/specialprojects/special-report/58601/

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