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Azercell Telecom JV and London-based Reuters Foundation are pleased to announce a special training programme for journalists. The training is organised in framework of Azercell’s new policy of promoting quality journalism in Azerbaijan.

Famous former Reuters correspondents Oliver Wates and Anatoly Verbin from Reuters Foundation will conduct a practical seminar in techniques of writing business and financial news for journalists from Azerbaijan, with a special focus on telecommunications. The course is open to active mid-career journalists with at least two years of practical experience in newspaper, radio, television, and magazine or internet journalism.

As well as 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
The course will be practical and will be conducted in Azeri and Russian.

Eligible participants must:

be practising journalists specialising in economics and telecommunication;
be working for national broadcast, print or electronic periodical media;
have minimum 2 years of work experience in analysing and reporting business and economics;
be available for the below-mentioned training course for an extended period of time.
The training will be held in Baku on 18-22 June 2007. 15 participants will be selected to take part in the training.

For further information please contact:

Rufat Abbasov

Press-secretary

Azercell Telecom JV

Email: ssarufat@azercell.com

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