Astana Media Week-2020 starts in Nur-Sultan

From November 11 to 13, 2020, for the first time in remote mode, the IV Astana Media Week, organized by the Ministry of Information and Social Development of the Republic of Kazakhstan with the participation of Kazmedia Ortalygy, started. The already traditional AMW media week will bring together more than 60 speakers from 10 countries, such as the USA, Russia, Norway, Saudi Arabia, Australia, etc. AMW aims to develop the domestic media industry and promote business relationships in the industry at the regional and international levels. This year, the organizers are focusing on ways to build media work in the future. Central topics: global trends in media content consumption; pandemic and crisis of confidence in the media; work of editorial offices in new conditions; multi-platform; new leaders of the media space. Domestic and foreign top managers, experts from leading media agencies, scientists from large international organizations and foreign universities, representatives of the public sector and production companies are invited to participate in AMW.

The Minister of Information and Social Development of the Republic of Kazakhstan Aida Balayeva made a welcoming speech. “Today we are making it clear that our soft skills: uniqueness, flexibility, competence, partnership and collaboration can be a great solution in this situation. Studying and applying the best experience, developed communications and high professionalism are what makes the media sphere the profession of the future, ”A. Balayeva emphasized.

Also, the media week will be attended by Robert Skinner - Senior Advisor, UN Department of Global Communications; Javad Mottagi - Secretary General of the Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union (ABU); Mikhail Zygar - journalist, editor, writer; Petr Fedorov - Head of the Directorate for International Relations of the All-Russian State Television and Radio Broadcasting Company; Mikhail Gusman - First Deputy General Director of the Russian News Agency TASS; Shamil Sadykov - General Director of Tat-Media; Irina Shikhman - author of the YouTube channel “And Talk?”, Interviewer, journalist; Alisher Yelikbaev is a PR specialist and other key experts of the media community of the world and Kazakhstan. At the same time, participants of the Astana Media Week will have the opportunity to visit a whole series of online events on the website of the media week astanamediaweek.kz.

Workshops for journalists with the support of the American Embassy in Kazakhstan will be given by New York Film Academy professor Bill Einreinhofer - American TV producer, member of the Directors Guild of America, winner of three Emmy awards; Evgenia Vlasova - journalist, NYFA teacher. Media trainers from Russia and Kazakhstan will share their skills: Andrey Dorozhny - data journalist and data visualization specialist; Alexander Danilov - Project Manager “Stop Fake”; Ainur Koskina - journalist, media trainer; Aydos Sarym - political scientist; Daurzhan Augambay - publisher of the magazine “Akyl-kenes”; Zhanna Ibraeva - oratory trainer; Mahabbat Yessen is a journalist, TV and radio host, associate professor of the Academy of Public Administration under the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan. The annual Content Market exhibition for media participants will be held online for the first time and will allow “visitors” to quickly and conveniently familiarize themselves with the current media market offers of domestic and international production companies; manufacturers - to present their projects to potential buyers. For the first time, within the framework of the AMW, the annual National “Orker” award will be awarded for achievements in the field of print, radio, and Internet journalism. By tradition, the winners will receive an exclusive statuette and a cash prize of 1,000,000 tenge. It will be possible to watch the award through an online broadcast on the website.