4,000 media representatives have been trained in the basics of industry journalism

The Ministry of Information and Social Development of the Republic of Kazakhstan is implementing large-scale work on training specialists in industry journalism. In 2021 alone, thanks to joint efforts with leading universities in Kazakhstan, more than 4,000 journalists from both public and private media were trained free of charge to cover important areas of the socio-economic life of the country. It is expected that trained journalists will make a significant contribution to the development of the Kazakh segment of the media and social networks in the fight against disinformation, as well as in comprehensive objective information education of Kazakhstanis.

 

In general, journalists of republican and regional media have already been trained in the basics and features of information coverage of issues of medicine, interethnic relations, religion, IT, ecology, the agricultural sector, finance and economics, law.

 

The coaches of the trainings and seminars were the leading teachers of KazNU named after Al-Farabi, ENU named after L.Gumilev, KazNMU named after S.Asfendiyarov, KazGUU named after M.Narikbayev, International University of Information Technologies, University of International Business, NKU named after M. Kozybayev.

 

It should be noted separately that since September 2021, two new educational programs have been launched: "Journalism: Analytics and Investigations" for undergraduate students initiated by KazGUU named after M.Narikbayev, as well as for graduate students of KazNU named after Al-Farabi.

 

"Environmental Journalism" . Thus, the development of environmental journalism should help raise awareness, encourage Kazakhstanis to act for the benefit of their environment.

 

In addition, the Ministry launched a multimedia educational and information platform for organizing and conducting training of media specialists on the basis of the corporate fund "Media Damytu Kory".

 

An important organizational part of the development of industry journalism was the conclusion of an agreement between the Ministry, industry organizations and industry trade unions for 2021-2023. It is expected that the agreement will define the general principles of regulation of socio-economic and labor relations, mutual obligations and responsibilities of the parties for the training of industry journalists