OLIVÉR-TAMÁS KISS
Personal information
•	Marital status: single
•	Nationality: Hungarian (Romanian citizen)
•	Date and place of birth: November 15, 1975, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
•	Office: SZABADSÁG – Hungarian Language Regional Newspaper
RO 400009 - Cluj, Str. Napoca nr. 16, Tel.: 00-40-264-596621, Fax: 597206
e-mail: oliver@szabadsag.ro
•	Driving licence: category B (since January 1998)

Education
1995 - 2002
Institution name: Babeş-Bolyai University, Faculty of Political Science, Public Administration and Journalism
BA in journalism
City, State: Cluj-Napoca, Romania
2004 – 2005
Institution name: Babeş-Bolyai University, Faculty of Political Science, Public Administration and Journalism
MA in journalism and communication
City, State: Cluj-Napoca, Romania

2005 – 2006
Institution name: Babeş-Bolyai University, Faculty of Political Science, Public Administration and Journalism
MA in political sciences - pending
Political Representation and Good Governance in Multiethnic Societies
City, State: Cluj-Napoca, Romania

      Awards
European Reporter 2005 (third place) – Awarded by the Delegation of the European Commission in Romania (first ethnic-Hungarian journalist from Romania and first journalist from Cluj to receive this award)
Báthory Prize – 2009 –Awarded by the Hungarian National Council of Transylvania and the Bolyai Initiative Committee
Professional membership
Hungarian Journalists’ Association of Romania
Founding member: Journalism Association, Cluj, Romania

Professional
Activities/
Education and training 
(summary)
Participant – Election ‘96 Media Training Programme
October 21-25, 1996, Young Journalists’ Foundation, Bucharest, Romania
Trainee –  Zwolse Courant - daily newspaper
August 13 - September 2, 1996, Zwolle, The Netherlands
Participant – International Student Week in Ilmenau, Press Group
May 3–10, 1997, Thüringen, Germany
Participant –  Amsterdam-Maastricht Summer University 1997
July 21 - 24, 1997; European Journalism Center, Maastricht, Netherlands
Participant –  The Role of the Press in Harmonizing the Ethnic Relations; seminar
October 2 - 5, 1997, Băile Herculane, Romania
Participant –  Ethics in Journalism, seminar
October 14 - 17, 1997, Sinaia, Romania
Participant –  Mass-Media in the Interethnic Relations, seminar
April 28-29, 1998, Project on Ethnic Relations, Târgu-Mureş, Romania
Participant – Minority Course ‘98
July 5 – August 1, 1998, Hojskolen Ostersoen, Aabenraa, Denmark
Participant – Benches – interethnic dialogue; seminar
November 27-29, 1998, Civitas Foundation, Illyefalva/Ilieni, Romania
Participant – Europe Express – International Course about the European Union
March 19-21, 1999, Accursius Law Association, Budapest, Hungary
Professional
Activities/
Education and training 
(summary)
Journalism exchange programme – Open Society Foundation Bucharest, Batory Foundation Warsaw
November 22-29, 1999, Warsaw, Poland
Participant – Reporting Ethnic Conflict; seminar
March 23-25, 2000, Kharkiv, Ukraine
•	organized by the European Journalism Centre (EJC) - Maastricht
Independent Association “Journalists’ Initiative” – Khrakiv
Participant – Professional standards and ethics in crime reporting; seminar
October 6-8, 2000, Kharkiv, Ukraine
•	organized by the European Journalism Centre (EJC) - Maastricht
Independent Association “Journalists’ Initiative” – Khrakiv
Participant – Journalists Safety Training Workshop - Surviving Hostile Regions
March 16-18, 2001, Sinaia, Romania
Professional
Activities/
Education and training 
(summary)
•	organized by the International Federation of Journalists, the Center for Independent Journalism and the Council of Europe

International Visitor Program  –  United States of America – Department of State
Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs
Office of International Visitors
August 11 – September 1, 2001
Washington DC, Seattle (Washington), Des Moines, Grinnell (Iowa), Tampa, Saint Petersburg (Florida), New York City (New York)
Visit to large [ex. Seattle Times, Seattle Post Intelligencer (Washington) Saint Petersburg Times (Florida)], small, mainstream and alternative newspapers and meetings with journalists and media specialists; cultural events and exposure to some of the country’s touristic and scenic attractions, visit to farms.
Participant – Health Reporting Course
November 5-11, 2001, Ljubljana, Slovenia
•	organized by the Peace Institute – Center for Media Policy, Slovenia. 
Study visit – Budapest Media Institute, Népszabadság national daily newspaper , MTI Hungarian News Agency, Hungarian Public Radio, Ministry of Finance.
February 18 – March 2, 2002, Budapest, Hungary
•	organized and financed by the Hungarian Ministry of Education
Participant –  Business Journalism Workshop
November 4 - 8, 2002; Maastricht, The Netherlands 
organized by the European Journalism Center, supported by the Dutch Ministry of Education, Culture and Science
Professional
Activities/
Education and training 
(summary)
International journalism fellowship – United States of America
World Press Institute, Saint Paul, Minnesota
July 11 – November 1, 2003
Visit to national (ex. New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Reader’s Digest, Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, Time, Chicago Tribune), regional (ex. Star Tribune, Minneapolis), local and alternative newspapers, radio (ex. Minnesota Public Radio) and TV stations (KSTP-Tv, Univision, CNN), indian tribe (Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community), foundations (ex. Carnegie Corporation, McArthur Foundation, Knight Foundation), financial institutions (ex. Merrill Lynch, AIG, Inc., Federal Reserve Bank of New York, International Monetary Fund, World Bank), universities (ex. University of Miami, University of California - Los Angeles, Spelman College, U.S. Naval Academy, Stanford, Georgia Tech, University of Texas), government or international institutions (ex. The Pentagon, United Nations, Department of State,  San Ysidro Port of Entry) military facilities (ex. Fort Hood, Texas), correctional facilities (ex. U.S. Federal Penitentiary, Atlanta, Georgia), corporations (ex. 3M, IBM, Pfeizer, Ford Motor Co.), law enfocement (Chicago Police Department) and other (ex. Kennedy Space Center, DisneyWorld). 
Main cities visited: Minneapolis/Saint Paul, Prior Lake (Minnesota), Madison (Wisconsin), San Francisco, Los Angeles, Hollywood, Santa Monica, Beverly Hills, Malibu Beach, San Diego (California), Detroit, Ann Arbor, Dearborn (Michigan), New York City (New York), Washington, D.C., Austin (Texas), Atlanta (Georgia), Gainesville, Orlando, Miami (Florida) and Chicago (Illinois).
Professional
Activities/
Education and training 
(summary)

Participant –  Amsterdam-Maastricht Summer University 2004
   seminar – “Journalism and Citizenship: Expanding the Horizons”; 
•	lecture and discussions about civic journalism; 
June 28-30, 2004; European Journalism Center, 
 Maastricht, The Netherlands
Lecture – Civic journalism – a possible model for mass media in Romania
October 15-17, 2004; Buşteni, Romania
Part of the course: Mass media and civic education – seminar organized by Agenda 21 – Association for Assistance and Programes for Sustainable Development – Bucharest, Romania
Participant  - Making sense of the European Union 
December 12-14, 2005; Brussels, Belgium
Seminar about the EU institution, EU constitution, enlargement organized by the European Journalism Center (Maastricht, Bruxelles), financed by the European Commission

Study visit – The Chartered Institute of Journalists, BBC Radio News, The Sun, Houses of Parliament, CNN, The Sunday Times, The Guardian.
 October 9-11, 2006; London, United Kingdom
•	financed by the Delegation of the European Commission in Romania, organized by Chelgate Romania

Study visit – Gazeta Wyborcea, Rzeczpospolita, Newsweek Polska, Polityka, the EC Representation in Poland, 
October 21-25, 2006; Warsaw, Poland
European workshop – Europeans knowing Europe
June 19-26, 2010; Sarnate, Latvia
•	Discussions about the European public sphere, developing the concept for a European magazine
Financed by the European Commison through the Lifelong Learning Programme – Grundvig Workshops, organized by the ACC Tautskolas Eiropai, Latvia

For the last 10 years I have worked extensively with foreign (Dutch – De Telegraaf, NRC Handelsblad, Dutch Press Agency, Radio Netherlands International, etc; British – BBC, The Economist, etc.; Irish – Irish Times, American – National Geographic) journalists and correspondents for Central and Eastern Europe based in Budapest.
The latest project is in partnership with Schnuffie Productions from Burbank, California, USA.

Previous
positions
Reporter/Editor  - Szabadság – Hungarian Language Regional Newspaper, Cluj, 
April 1995 – March 2005
Political department. Responsibilities: public administration (local council, town hall, county council, etc.) political parties, environmental protection, higher education, NGOs, etc.
 Editor - CAMPUS, Weekly of the Hungarian Student Union of Kolozsvár, supplement of the Szabadság – Hungarian Language Regional Newspaper, Cluj, Romania
October 1 - December 11, 1996.
Project manager – Campus, weekly of the Hungarian Student Union of Kolozsvár
November 1, 1996 - February 1, 2001, Cluj, Romania

Columnist, member of the editorial and the executive board of the company 
Szabadság – Hungarian Language Regional Newspaper, Cluj, Romania
March 2005 – August 2006
Editor-in-chief
Szabadság – Hungarian Language Regional Newspaper, Cluj, Romania
August 2006 – March 2008

Current
positions
Head of the on-line department
www.szabadsag.ro the on-line verison of the Szabadság 
http://video.szabadsag.ro – the video portal of the Szabadság
March 2008 - 

Editor – inter@ktív2 – weekly of the Hungarian Scientific Society of Transylvania and
SZABADSÁG – Hungarian Language Regional Newspaper
(IT, PC, Internet – magazine)
since May 2000
Responsibilities: writing and editing articles about personal computers, new technologies, GSM, telecommunications.

Languages
English, French and Romanian (fluent); Italian (fair). Hungarian – mother tongue

Travels
Austria, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Kosovo, Latvia, Montenegro, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Tunisia, Turkey, Ukraine, United Kingdom, United States of America, Vatican City.

Hobbies
Outdoor sports, hiking (winter, spring, summer, autumn) board games, rifle practice, poker
Community activities
1996 - 1997
Institution name: Hungarian Student Union of Kolozsvár (HSUK - KMDSZ)
City, State: Cluj -Napoca, Romania
•	Details of position: president

Volunteer – Youth Action for Peace 
Presentations in high schools about the EURODESK network
October – November 2004, Cluj-Napoca, Romania

Transylvania Rescue Team/Erdély Mentőcsoport - founding member (2010) 
www.erdelymentocsoport.wordpress.com and www.erdelymentocsoport.hu 
Participant – first international search and rescue operation, Albania, December 9-18, 2010.

Honorific blood donor – since April 2001