PASHA Bank, British Council continue supporting Azerbaijani media

Baku, December 3, (AzerTAc). PASHA Bank, in partnership with the British Council Azerbaijan, held a training program for journalists covering business topics in the media. The ambition is to have a leading group of young journalists setting an example of fair and professional reporting in the country and notably contributing to raising the standards of business reporting in Azerbaijan. This is a unique project based on the previous successful project for journalists organised in 2011. The project aims at strengthening professional competencies and skills of the national media through a special training program tailored up to the needs of the selected journalists. The British Council and PASHA Bank have selected 11 professional business journalists representing the leading news and broadcasting agencies in Azerbaijan. These journalists undertook customised business reporting course and selected participants visited to some of the leading media establishments in the United Kingdom, and met with prominent business journalists. The program has been implemented in cooperation with the United Kingdom's Thomson Foundation which is one of Europe's biggest media organisations empowering thousands of journalists worldwide to generate and sustain a diverse media and working in over 100 countries towards encouraging the highest ethical and professional standards in media. Next training will be held on January 3-6, 2015.