Anadolu Agency’s News Academy will organize a forum for international journalists next Thursday in the Turkish capital Ankara.
Titled War Journalism and Reporting in Crisis Zones, the forum is being organized with the support of the Turkish Presidency’s Communications Directorate on Oct. 27.
A total of 15 international journalists — who received war correspondent training at the agency — from Georgia, Pakistan, Ethiopia, Albania, Azerbaijan, Ukraine, Nigeria, Algeria, Chad, Kenya, Sarajevo, and Kyrgyzstan will participate in the program.
The forum aims to increase the interest of international media members in Türkiye, and to contribute to the promotion of the country by providing interaction between foreign and Turkish war correspondents.
As part of the forum, war correspondents, who will share their field experiences, will exchange ideas on the difficulties of the profession, the dangers encountered on the spot, and new technologies as well as rules that need to be updated.
Ahead of the forum, the participants will camp in Türkiye’s northwestern province of Bolu on Oct. 24.
The very next day they will visit the Communications Directorate, Presidency of Defense Industries, the Turkish Cooperation and Coordination Agency (TIKA), Police Academy and Anadolu Agency. They will also meet with politicians, economists, and NGO representatives.
As part of the forum, sessions such as “Changing Conflict Conditions and War Correspondence”, “War Correspondents in Türkiye” and “Global Communications in Wartime” will be held.
Speakers who have achieved significant success in war journalism are expected to attend the forum.
Changing conditions and site experiences
Anadolu Agency News Coordinator Yahya Bostan noted that Anadolu Agency has provided war correspondence training to many local and foreign journalists so far.
“However, technology and the nature of wars are also changing. We bring together war correspondents from all over the world in Ankara to hear about their experiences in the field and to adapt the training we give to our correspondent friends to change,” Bostan said.
“We will talk about the changing conditions and field experiences,” he added.
So far 487 participants, including 224 foreign nationals, have received the War Correspondence Training, which is provided by only a few institutions in the world and has been organized in Türkiye since 2012 with the cooperation of Anadolu Agency and the Police Academy.
Participants from 50 countries, including Türkiye, the US, Afghanistan, the UK, Croatia, Iraq, Kyrgyzstan, Libya, Mongolia, Romania, Syria, Tunisia, and Ukraine took part in the training.
During the training process of the Anadolu Agency’s News Academy, the theory and practice of the information and rules required to ensure the safety of the reporters who will work under extraordinary conditions in war, crisis, or natural disaster regions are given by expert security forces, academics, and journalists.
During the 12-day program, participants will be trained on media management in emergencies, broadcasting principles on reporting terrorism and violence, social events, surviving in water, personal safety, technology, information transmission security, close defense, and advanced driving techniques.
A minimum of 15 and a maximum of 25 people can attend the courses offered in Turkish, English, Russian, and Arabic.
At the end of the training, the participants will take an exam to test and evaluate their knowledge.
In the practical exam, students’ news, photographs, images, special news, and interviews will be evaluated.
Successful participants will be awarded certificates.
Source: Anadolu Agency