Education and training: EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND: 2004 September – 2008 July: Vilnius University, Faculty of Communications, Institute of Journalism. The Bachelors degree of Communication and Information. 2006 August - 2007 June: The Danish School of Journalism (with an international student exchange program Socrates/Erasmus):

2006 August - December: “International semester program” (courses on international news gathering, reporting from EU, stereotypes and risk reporting).
2007 January - June: “International TV journalism” (Current affairs stories (3 – 5 minutes))

1992 - 2004: Vilnius Simonas Daukantas secondary school. Graduated cum laude.

TRAINING: 2009 November – science journalism workshop RELATE (http://relateproject.eu/), Turkey; 2009 March – Covering the Baltic Sea Environment, Kalmar, Sweden and Vilnius, Lithuania; 2008 October – EU External Co-operation in Action, Brussels, Belgium; 2007 October 11-12 – ‘People with mental disabilities in the media’, Lithuania;

Professional experience: since 2007 September – the National Lithuanian Radio and Television, TV news department (the morning show “Labas rytas” and the main news program “Panorama) – TV reporter. 2007 June – 2007 September - the online news site of the National Lithuanian Radio and Television www.lrt.lt – online reporter. 2005 June - 2006 August: national daily newspaper „Lietuvos žinios“ (stringer) 2004 October - June: Lithuanian student newspaper „Studentų Era” and Vilnius University newspaper „Universitas Vilnensis” (contributor ).

Awards and personal grants: 2007 June – the Scholarship of the Lithuanian Journalist Vytautas Gedgaudas.

Link to my website: www.lrt.lt

My profile is also available here: You can contact me on: Facebook - Viktorija Rinkeviciute, skype: vikencija_lt.

Additional relevant information: WHAT I BELIEVE IN: 'I'm starting with the man in the mirror' (Micheal Jackson)