The British Council is pleased to announce a special training programme for journalists. The project is implemented by the British Council in partnership with PASHA Bank and with the support of Azerbaijan Media Centre and Thomson Foundation.

The project is aimed at helping the national media (broadcast, print and online media) strengthen their professional competencies and skills through a specifically designed comprehensive training programme which will address participants’ journalistic skills.

10 participants will be selected to take part in the training sessions starting from July 2011. During the training the most active participants will be selected to go to study tour in Cardiff/London in 2012.

We encourage journalists from all regions of Azerbaijan to apply for participation at the training.

The programme will focus on enhancing the following journalistic competencies and skills:

-different styles of story writing

-features writing skills

-news reporting

-news writing

-interviewing techniques and practices

The training will be based on the following themes:

-Ethics, balanced and fair reporting

-Economics journalism

-Business journalism

Eligible participants must:

•Have at least 2 years of working experience in journalism

•be working for national broadcast, print, electronic periodical or online media;

•have adequate level of English language proficiency

•be available for the above-mentioned training courses for an extended period of time which includes:

a)3 training sessions in Baku (5 full days each session)

b)4-5-day study visit to UK

Note: Participation at all training sessions is important.

All interested applicants should download an application form and email it to konul.ahmadova@britishcouncil.az not later than 03 July 2011.