New Guests in “Media Academy”
5 july 2010
As you know, “IRELI” Public Union started the “Media Academy” project. Academy is functioning in a profession course format which is tutoring alternative journalism. Within the project youth are getting chance to realize their own projects in Academy’s “iRadio”, “IRELI Production”, to practice their skills in most popular news agencies, newspapers, radio and TV studios, to learn all secrets of journalism from the well-known professionals of this sector. The goal of the course is to create educated, modern and professional young journalists and assist them in getting recruited into national media sector.
Currently there are 35 participants in the project.
Academy’s latest trainings were about PR management and promotion of effective advertisement campaigns. Trainers were director of “Ali and Nino” bookstores and restaurants network Nigar Kocherli and director of Communication Department of the Central Bank of Azerbaijan Rufat Abbasov who is also the only representative of International PR Association in Azerbaijan. Nigar Kocherli spoke about PR strategies of “Ali and Nino” bookstores and restaurants network and then Rufat Abbasov spoke about PR technologies. Then, according to the schedule of the Academy, lessons were continued with the session led by graduate of Marmara University, Journalism Faculty Mahira Ammadova. She continued trainings about Protocol Journalism.
It should be mentioned that partners of the project are “1News” Information Agency, “Day.az” Information Agency, “APA” Information Agency, “Trend” Information Agency and “News.az” Information Agency.
