Media experts discussed the development of industry journalism

Today, November 17, in Nur-Sultan, Vice Minister of Information and Social Development of the Republic of Kazakhstan Kemelbek Oyshybayev took part in an online meeting of the final round table "Kazakhstan journalism in 2020: challenges and opportunities", organized as part of the grant project.

The grant project "Improving the efficiency of delivering information to the population on problematic issues in the financial, legal, medical, religious spheres, as well as in the field of digitalization" was implemented within the framework of the state grant of the NJSC "Center for Support of Civil Initiatives" with the support of the Ministry of Information and Social Development of the Republic of Kazakhstan.

From October 12 to November 13, 2020, the grant recipient conducted 25 sessions of online training courses for regional journalists on medical topics, as well as on financial, legal, religious and digital literacy.

Well-known international and Kazakhstani journalists, media experts, and industry representatives acted as trainers.

In his speech, Kemelbek Oyshybaev noted the important role of human resources and industry journalism in the development of the media, since it is the professionalism of specialists that contributes to the creation of high-quality and in-demand content.

During the round table, the participants discussed the main problematic issues of modern journalism.

The event was attended by the publisher "Forbes Kazakhstan" Armanzhan Baytasov, General Director of the TC "Almaty" Nurzhan Mukhamedzhanova, General Director of the radio station "Business FM" Rustam Maksutov, Director of the information agency "Inbusiness.kz" Mira Khalina, Honorary Judge, lawyer Bakhytzhan Zhakupov, Professor of Al-Farabi KazNU Kalimash Begalinova, etc.