Writing Business News training organized by Azercell Telecom JV and Reuters Foundation starts working

Bakı, June 18, 2007

Azercell Telecom JV and London-based Reuters Foundation started on June 18, 2007 Writing Business News Training for journalists in Europe Hotel. The training, which is taking place within Azercell’s new “İnkişafı Paylaşmaq Platformu” (Development Sharing Platform) focuses 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 by June 22 on basic news-writing techniques and on company results, sifting through the figures, importance of the company’s economic figures, journalism ethics, understanding economic connections, interest rates, legal aspect, small and large business and other exercises and presentations on different subjects as well.

The participants were chosen through the selection process. Big number of the interested journalists show the importance of the training for them. About some 100 journalists submitted their applications to Azercell Telecom JV for participation in the training. As per the terms of the competition, the active mid-career journalists with at least two years of practical experience in newspaper, radio, television, and magazine or internet journalism have got a chance to become in close contacts with the famous former journalists of Reuters, the world’s most influential news agency and to obtain new skills.

Addressing the opening ceremony of the training, Ms. Kamilla Isayeva, Head of the Corporative Communications and Social Responsibility Unit of Azercell Telecom JV welcomed the participants and informed them about the company’s new policy towards Mass Media. “This training is hold within our new Development Sharing Platform. Being a private technological company of the region we continuosly train ourselves and improve consequently: “Major aim of our new platform, which cover our relations with media, with you, is to share this development with journalists. We hope that you will gain a lot of new skills and get improved during this training and share your knowledge with your friends, colleagues and readers”, - she said.

Oliver Wates, Reuters’ former chief correspondent in USSR, Portugal, Pakistan and Brazil, and former editor in the news agency’s Head Office recommended to Azerbaijani journalists to achieve maximum knowledge using “this great chance created by Azercell Telecom JV”.

“Representing Reuters Foundation we held a lot of trainings in different countries of the world, but it’s first time that we support such a large-scale project for journalists in Azerbaijan. This is a great investment by Azercell Telecom JV to human resources, including journalists in this country”- said Anatoly Verbin, Reuters’ former chief correspondent in Bulgaria, Macedonia and other countries.

The training is to be closed on June 22, in a ceremony with participation of well-known representatives of Azerbaijan media.