”Azercell Telecom” JV and Reuters Foundation opens training for journalists

Bakı, June 14, 2007

Azercell Telecom JV established close relations with journalists during 11 years of its existence in Azerbaijan. The company supports different projects and organizes courses continiuously with aim of media development and building of skilled and qualitative journalists. According to the inquriy recently held among journalists, Azercell Telecom JV was recognized as the most transparent company of the year 2006. The company is continuing implementing its policy on development of the journalism locally. This time the experienced professionals of the world’s famous news agency will visit Baku to conduct a practical seminar for the journalists.

Azercell Telecom JV and London-based Reuters Foundation organize a special Writing Business News Training for journalists starting from the beginning of the next week. The training, which is to take place within Azercel’s new “İnkişafı Paylaşmaq Platformu”, will focus on techniques of writing business and financial news. Famous former Reuters correspondents Oliver Wates and Anatoly Verbin from Reuters Foundation will conduct a practical seminar from June 18 to June 22 in techniques of writing business and financial news at the Hotel Europe. Along with the basic news-writing techniques, the workshop will focus on company results - sifting through the figures, interest rates- understanding the economic connections, legal dangers- reporting safely and accurately on sensitive subjects, small business-how to tell interesting stories, big business-how to separate fact from fiction, numbers-how to present them in a user-friendly manner and other exercises and presentations on different subjects. The course will be conducted in Azeri and Russian.

Azercell Telecom JV, always trying to save its trustful relations with media and considering the independent and strong media as an important factor for development of the civil society, starts this project with aim of promoting quality journalism in Azerbaijan.