IOM helps in building the capacities of media professionals and students to implement good standards in their reporting of migration issues. One example of this is IOM's project 'Migrants in the Spotlight: Training and Capacity Building for Media', which included training seminars in 2011 for journalists and media students from the Czech Republic, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania and Slovakia to raise awareness about reporting on migration issues.

The training seminars included enhancing knowledge on interviewing traumatized persons, different categories of migrants and consequences of media reporting on Third Country Nationals. The objective of these seminars was to encourage the production of higher quality of migration-related information to the public. In addition they also sought to improve dialogue between representatives of the media, journalism students and NGOs focusing on migration issues.