Press Council, OSCE Baku Office start new project

The Azerbaijani Press Council jointly with OSCE Office in Baku start a new project "Discussions in the media relations between press and society". The project aims at supporting the formation of a mechanism of the society's effective influence to remove these problems by bringing together urgent problems of the Azerbaijani media and presenting them to the society.

One of the main goals is rapprochement between Azerbaijani journalism and citizens, as well as to strengthen the relations between the society and the media.

The project will be completed by late 2012. It is planned to organize TV programs with representatives of OSCE Baku office, the joint venture, the leading media outlets having influence on public opinion within the project. The economic problems of the media outlets, the problems with journalists' education, the issues of new media outlets, defamation, etc. will be discussed at the programs.


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