The Russian-Azerbaijani Media School organized by the North-South Center for Political Analysis has opened in Baku to discuss "Modern journalism in new geopolitical realities". Russian journalists and media specialists will hold training sessions for their Azerbaijani colleagues for 2-3 days. Yulia Yakusheva, the executive director of the North-South Center, said that the project was traditional.
Kirill Privalov, a political observer of Radio Rossii, described the process of preparing analytical materials and organized a master class on success tips in analytical journalism. In his words, many unprofessional journalists started working in Russia in the 1990s. He believes that unbiased journalism is impossible and it should not hinder the interests of state policy.
Privalov said that the problem of policy in Russia was that there were too many unprofessional politicians. He noted that Pozner was an intelligent journalist and that was the reason for his popularity. Privalov associates himself with the retort genre of analytical journalism.
Nikolai Vikhlyayev, the head of the RIA Novosti Bureau in France in 1995-2002, organized training on success tips in international journalism.
Lev Rossoshik, vice president of the European office of the International Sports Press Association (AIPS) will tomorrow discuss sports journalism in the context of the 2015 European Games. Oleg Bondarenko, the director of the Russian-Ukrainian information center, will describe the geopolitical situation in the post-Soviet space.
The Media School will dedicate the final day to journalist essay rules. The best journalists of the South Caucasus will take part in the regional School of Young Journalists of the South Caucasus in Sochi in late 2014.
