Role of mass media in modern world mulled

During the second day of the World Media Summit, the participants discussed professional problems of journalistic society and its role in a modern world.

Azerbaijani delegation led by Aslan Aslanov, Director General of Azerbaijan State Telegraph Agency (AzerTAc) participates in the Summit organized by ITAR-TASS.

The plenary sessions on the topics “Information Challenges of the 21st century and the world media: the role of the media in conditions of confrontation and revolution,” “Business and the media: Media survival model in economic crisis conditions. Role of the state and business,” “Information of the future: main trends in the transformation of traditional media” were held within the World Media Summit.

The heads of the world`s leading mass media expressed their opinion that it was necessary to react to the existing challenges in a globalizing and rapidly changing world and coordinate positions of traditional media in a century of Internet, social networks and other innovations of scientific-technical progress.
 

/AzerTAc/